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The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Name Without a Game
Karsten Müller: The Data Monk of Endgames and the Shadow of Magnus Carlsen
From Tsaghkadzor to the King's Indian: The 9...a5 Move and the Data Gap in an Opening Product
The 2,731 Threshold of Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: Turkey's Chess Prodigy Goes Undefeated 8/10 at the 2026 Olympiad
The Scandinavian Defense: Between Time-Saving and Overpromise
9...a5 in the King's Indian: Selling Surprise, Not SuperiorityIn the promotional text for an instructional DVD on the King's Indian Defence...
The Headline Says Benko Gambit, the Body Sells FRITZ 20: A Crack in Chess PublishingThe product page opened on a rainy evening in Da Nang. The first line: The...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Name Without a GameOn a chess course sales page, the headline reads in bold: “Dortmund Sparkasse...
US Championships: Woodward Beats Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Void Behind the HeadlineI opened the sports news page, and the headline hit me: "US Championships:...
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov Revived a Forgotten Line and the Trap of the Chess Instruction MarketI still remember that evening in 2026, sitting before the screen watching the...
Karsten Müller: The Data Monk of Endgames and the Shadow of Magnus CarlsenThere is an interesting paradox in modern chess: when computers have solved...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters: One Result, Many GapsOPENING: A MOVE WITH NO AUDIENCE A hand stops in mid-air – not out of...
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy to FritzTrainer: Redrawing the Chess Content Market MapWithin ChessBase's FritzTrainer catalogue, a new name appears in a position...
ChessBase Adds Kostya Kavutskiy to FritzTrainer: The Author-Identity Race in ChessOn ChessBase's FritzTrainer catalogue, two new course titles sit side by side...
Game of the Week No. 743: When a Chess Product Lives on Habit, Not on a GameEvery Wednesday evening, in Amsterdam, a man opens his analysis software, set...
Samarkand Olympiad 2026: 11-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan scores 6/7 with a 2504 performance on board oneIn Samarkand, board one of England's women's team features an eleven-year-old...
The 3.Bc4 Move and the Feet That Don't Touch the Floor in SamarkandIn Samarkand, there is a gap the cameras almost never find: the distance...
Mislabeling the FIDE Presidency: When the Headline and the Board Tell Two Different StoriesOn a day in the middle of the transfer window, while I was reopening chess ne...
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes and Five Paths of the Sicilian DefenseAt move six of the Najdorf, the board splits into five roads, and each road...
Najdorf Sicilian: Reading Opening Theory From the Gaps Between VariationsNajdorf Sicilian: Reading Opening Theory From the Gaps Between Variations The...
From Tsaghkadzor to the King's Indian: The 9...a5 Move and the Data Gap in an Opening ProductTsaghkadzor is a small town on the northern slopes of Armenia, where the snow...
The Scandinavian Defense: One Knight, Sixty Minutes, and Unverified PromisesA small cafe on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang, October rain drumming on...
The 2,731 Threshold of Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: Turkey's Chess Prodigy Goes Undefeated 8/10 at the 2026 OlympiadSamarkand, September 2026. I sat in the seventh row of a hall converted from ...
The Scandinavian Defense: Between Time-Saving and OverpromiseThursday evening, at a chess club in District 3, I sat behind a player rated...
After 1.d4 d5, When White Turns Away From 2.c4: An Opening Guide for BlackDuring a live commentary session in Da Nang earlier this year, I watched a...
9...a5 and the Bayonet Attack: When Chess Asks About Memory, Strategy, and the Mother's Shadow on the BoardIn the summer of 2026, at the Dortmund chess tournament, I witnessed a moment...