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Sixty Minutes in the Najdorf: A Wrong Title, a Download, and the Ledger of Chess Knowledge
The Undervaluation of Chess: Six Videos, One Quote, and the Diagnosis of an Invisible Pipeline
Third Time for the Gaprindashvili Cup: India's Depth Ledger Behind the Silver and the Bronze
One Headline, Another Product: Six Videos, Seven Openings, and Chess Media's Empty Seat
A Bavarian Title in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: FRITZ 20's Claims and the Paper Ledger
Sindarov Stuns Nakamura in His Own King's Indian Territory: How Ready Is the Uzbek Star for the World Championship?
A Bavarian Title in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: FRITZ 20's Claims and the Paper LedgerThe headline carries the Bavarian Championship and Sasikiran's win on tiebrea...
Sindarov Stuns Nakamura in His Own King's Indian Territory: How Ready Is the Uzbek Star for the World Championship?Nakamura's Familiar Weapon, Sindarov's Unexpected Counterattack The most...
Hong Kong Team Rapid Crown, But the Ding Liren Form Question Remains OpenAfter the final move fell on the Hong Kong boards, two numbers settled onto t...
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9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A Move That Cuts Preparation Cost, Not an Engine-KillerI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. Two in the morning in...
Video Teaching Defense Against the Scotch Opening Since Kasparov's 2026 RevivalThe Scotch opening was long considered harmless and rarely played, but in 202...
One Headline Verb, Ten Opening Files: The US Championship's First Round and the Lesson of ChessBase Magazine #225On an October afternoon I turned over the press note lying on my desk, and my...
Sixty Minutes in the Najdorf: A Wrong Title, a Download, and the Ledger of Chess KnowledgeSixty minutes. The runtime was printed so plainly on the download page that i...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, the 2026 FIDE Assembly, and the Market for Chess KnowledgeIt is nearly two in the morning in Penang. Rain taps on the balcony, and on t...
From Tsaghkadzor to 9...a5: The Report Whose Headline and Body Told Two Different StoriesThe sheet reached my desk on an ordinary morning. The headline claimed that...
The Undervaluation of Chess: Six Videos, One Quote, and the Diagnosis of an Invisible PipelineI have counted heartbeats in Paltan, and those numbers confessed more than an...
Third Time for the Gaprindashvili Cup: India's Depth Ledger Behind the Silver and the BronzeThe final-round scorecard was still open on my desk when the first discomfort...
The 45th Move That Refused the Draw: Savitha's Gamble and India's Silver Road in SamarkandRound 10, Samarkand. Before the 45th move arrived, the screen had frozen....
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Headline With Nothing Behind ItLast Tuesday morning a file landed on my desk. The headline said: Samarkand,...
Samarkand Olympiad: Savitha Shri's 7/7, Her Father's Exhausted Savings, and the Question Nobody Is AskingLast Thursday in Samarkand, a dead draw survived nearly five hours on board...
The Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Silence in the DataHook: The Weight of a Missing Date The first thing I went looking for was the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Festival, the Samarkand Confusion, and the Blockchain of InformationOne morning a folder arrived on my desk. It was labelled CBM225. A yellow...
The Sword Hanging Over a5: What the Scandinavian Defense's One-Hour Promise Really DeliversThe frame is paused on the screen. The black queen has settled on a5, and...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and One Wrong Headline: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Doesn't SayI opened the file and stopped at the first line. The headline announced...