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Chess27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Missing Denominator: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a Ledger2026-10-25The first item on the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 is not the one...
ChessA Najdorf Label on an Elephant Game: Auditing the 60-Minute 'Secret Weapon2026-10-24Read the headline — Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation. That famous branch of t...
ChessEleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: The 2,465 That Speaks Louder Than a Birthday2026-10-25Board one. Seventh and final round. She had the black pieces, across from Wom...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: What FIDE's Prison Chess Championship Actually Proves2026-10-25On the morning of 13 May 2026, when the first clock was pressed, the organise...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures from Prague 2026, Four Grand Annotators, and a Booklet That Arrives by Post2026-10-25The courier reached Kothrud at eleven in the morning with an envelope so thin...
ChessThe Najdorf's Sixty-Minute Update: Daniel King's Repertoire and the Question No Review Asks2026-10-25It is 1:40 in the morning. Through the window that opens toward Geylang Road,...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: The 2,465 That Speaks Louder Than a BirthdayBoard one. Seventh and final round. She had the black pieces, across from Wom...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: What FIDE's Prison Chess Championship Actually ProvesOn the morning of 13 May 2026, when the first clock was pressed, the organise...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures from Prague 2026, Four Grand Annotators, and a Booklet That Arrives by PostThe courier reached Kothrud at eleven in the morning with an envelope so thin...
The Najdorf's Sixty-Minute Update: Daniel King's Repertoire and the Question No Review AsksIt is 1:40 in the morning. Through the window that opens toward Geylang Road,...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Ledger Opens Before the Result DoesThe Prague file sat on my laptop for three weeks before I sorted it. The firs...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Story a Scoresheet Never FilesAt the Don Giovanni Hotel in Prague, the loudest object in the room that...
ChessBase #225: Twenty-Seven Prague Miniatures, Four Federations, and a Word Nobody BoundsHook Open the contents sheet of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 and read the bol...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Missing Denominator: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a LedgerThe first item on the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 is not the one...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague 2026: The Real Bet Inside ChessBase Magazine #225 Is the Annotation, Not the HighlightThe file was called 225. It took four seconds to open, and the first list...
A 2,465 Performance in Seven Rounds at Eleven: Vietnam's IM Story and the Gap Between the Record and the RecordingA 2,465 Performance in Seven Rounds at Eleven 23 October 2026, final round,...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Blank Scoresheet: What the First Continental Prison Chess Championship ProvesOn May 13, 2026, the first round of the First Continental Chess Championship...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — and One Empty Column: The Ledger of the First Continental Prison Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026 I opened FIDE's Chess for Freedom page because ...
Eleven Years Old, 5.5/7 on Board One and a 2465 Performance: The Scoresheet Behind the IM ClaimThere is no whistle in chess. But there is a moment just before the first...
Seven Rounds, 2,465 and an Empty Column: Who Actually Built the 11-Year-Old's IM NormIn the results bulletin from that October event, the first thing I found was...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: What the Prisoners' Chess Championship Left UnrecordedThirteen to twenty-three May 2026. Eleven days. 77 teams. Five continents....
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, One Blank Scoresheet: What FIDE's Prison Chess Championship Actually ProvesThe dates are sitting on my desk: 13 to 23 May 2026. Eleven days. Seventy-sev...
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Game: Auditing the 60-Minute 'Secret WeaponRead the headline — Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation. That famous branch of t...
Najdorf on the Box, Elephant Inside: The Real Move Behind a 60-Minute CourseKolkata, Tuesday, seven in the evening, first floor of a club. A...
Elephant Gambit Behind the Najdorf 'Poisoned Queen' Label: A 60-Minute Course, a Mismatched Headline, and a Promise Without DataHook: When the Headline and the Move Order Went to War Last week a product pa...
The Headline Belonged to Someone Else: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian, an Unnamed Carlsen Game, and an Empty Source LineThe file arrived on a Monday afternoon. The top line said: “Rachel Li...