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Total Chess announces Budapest pilot: the unified rating system still has no methodologyIn a chess playing hall there is one sound I have heard for thirty-two years:...
The FIDE Presidency Misidentification and a King's Indian Defence DVD: Deconstructing an Unverified Chess ReportPART 1 — A MISATTRIBUTED HEADLINE, AN OFF-TOPIC BODY The chess report under...
The Folded Scoresheet of Goa: When Sindarov Wrote, Modi Handed, and the Chessboard Spoke for DiplomacyThere is a piece of paper I still remember after nearly forty years of sittin...
Najdorf 2026: Daniel King and the industry selling 'updates' for an ever-shifting openingI sat in front of the screen at two in the morning, rewinding a Kramnik Najdo...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A Promise of Escape From Machine Memory, With No Data Behind ItThe DVD sat on my desk in Delhi, its plastic case scratched, the label printi...
ChessBase Issue 225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and the Gamble on Paid TrainingOn October 8, ChessBase released the 225th issue of its magazine to digital...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Gap Nobody MeasuresAt one forty-seven in the morning, the file for ChessBase Magazine issue 225...
India leaves Samarkand with medals, but the real scar is expectationSamarkand, the city of legends and the Silk Road, just witnessed the Indian...
India at the Samarkand Chess Olympiad: Silver, Bronze and a Gold Standard That Cannot RepeatAt Samarkand, in the final round of the open section, on board four, the worl...
India wins the Chess Olympiad for the first time: a golden generation and the numbers that saw it comingOne night in Budapest Budapest, the evening of September 22, 2026. The press...
Six videos, seven setups: IM Valeri Lilov and the promise against 1.d4 — what remains unspoken?Seven opening systems. Six videos. One promise that Black will have a relevan...
Twelve Blank Lines: The Discipline of Data Verification in Chess AnalysisTwelve Blank Lines On the morning of Monday, March 9, 2026, I opened my...
Knight Magic and the Unverified Gap: Dissecting the 5.e5 MoveWhite's fifth move is a pawn push to e5. Black's knight on f6 comes under...
Behind Nguyen Thi Oanh's SEA Games 29 Victory: 47 Steps Per Minute and the Uncompromising Fight Against PrejudiceI rewound the SEA Games 29 footage to find what people overlook. The frame I...
ChessBase Magazine #225 Launches: Analyses of Miniatures and Opening Videos from Chess Festival Prague 2026ChessBase Magazine #225 has just been released, bringing a wealth of in-depth...


