Chess
A Self-Appointed FIDE President: When the Chess World Lets Outsiders Write Its Memory
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian: Escaping Theory, or Trading One Burden for Another
The Move 5.e5 and the King Who Left the Corner: The Italian Game Opens Toward the Next Generation
The Elephant Gambit and the Sixty-Minute Trap: A Spatial Map of Surprise Weapons
King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack and the Unproven Gap
Elephant Gambit: When a Second-Move d5 Is Sold as a SecretAt 1:40 in the morning I opened an article on a site devoted to openings. The...
Rachel Li, a 60-Minute Course, and the Gap Nobody VerifiedOn a late afternoon in a coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh street in Da Nang, I...
A Self-Appointed FIDE President: When the Chess World Lets Outsiders Write Its MemorySome headlines make you read them twice, not because they are good, but becau...
The 5.e5! Thrust of the Modern Italian: Bodhana Sivanandan and How a Generation Learns ChessBudapest, September 2026. At a board of the Chess Olympiad, a nine-year-old...
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian: Escaping Theory, or Trading One Burden for AnotherIn a small room at a chess club in Nha Trang, between plastic boards worn...
When the Board Needs No Game: A Magazine Selling Memory, Not MovesIn a small room in Da Nang, I reopened the ChessBase file that had come in, a...
Vietnamese Chess 2026: When the Board Is Not Only for Winning, But for Winning the Way People RememberThe home field had no stands, but every time a piece struck the board, an...
Looking Back at Samarkand 2026 from 2032: When India's Strength Flowed to the Lower BoardsI sat in the Samarkand playing hall on a Saturday evening, watching Round 10 ...
The King's Indian Defence and the Escape Hatch from the Opening Theory TreadmillIn a small chess club at the end of an alley in Bangalore, a man nearing sixt...
The Upstream Gap: When Vietnamese Sport Fails to Archive ItselfThe Upstream Gap: When Vietnamese Sport Fails to Archive Itself That night, i...
The Move 5.e5 and the King Who Left the Corner: The Italian Game Opens Toward the Next GenerationI remember sitting still for a long time after the game ended. Not because of...
Savitha Shri, a 7/7 Olympiad Run, and the Gap the Data Table Has Not FilledMy stopwatch stopped at 4 hours 51 minutes. I was sitting in Chengdu, six tim...
Samarkand R8: Uzbekistan Lead, Germany Chase — and the Orphaned HeadlineChessboard Geometry Late on a Saturday night I muted the speakers and pulled ...
The Elephant Gambit and the Sixty-Minute Trap: A Spatial Map of Surprise WeaponsIn my small apartment in Chiang Mai, I have a strange habit whenever I read a...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A Practical Defense or an Unverified PromiseMove nine. White pushes the pawn to b4. The Bayonet Attack — a stab at the le...
When White Sidesteps Opening Theory, the Burden Falls on BlackThe game in the club hall ended at 21:40. The loser was a first-category play...
King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move Against the Bayonet Attack and the Unproven GapIn June 2026, when I was seventeen and spent nearly the whole summer reviewin...
The Scotch Opening: From the 2026 New York Shock to Adrian Mikhalchishin's 60-Minute MethodThe Scotch Opening: From the 2026 New York Shock to Adrian Mikhalchishin's...
Samarkand Round 4: The US Women's 15/16 Board Points, and Why I Am Not Convinced YetOpening Fifteen out of sixteen. Ninety-three point seven five per cent. Four...
Bent Larsen, the Scandinavian Defense, and How the Chess Opening Market Packages a LegendOn a wooden board in a small café in Jing'an District, Shanghai, a middle-age...
FIDE votes on 26 September 2026: Rosenstein, Carlsen and who shapes the classical chess cycleOn 26 September 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, delegates from more than 190...
Mar del Plata and the Promise of 9...a5: What Is an Opening DVD Really Selling?In June 2026, while Pedri was sprinting across the Euro pitches, I sat in my...
The Empty Analysis: What a Null Chess Report Teaches About Evidence, Ratings and the Cost of NarrativeTHE EMPTY ANALYSIS: WHAT A NULL CHESS REPORT TEACHES ABOUT EVIDENCE, RATINGS...
Samarkand 2026: India and the Locked Board Order Before the First MoveIn Samarkand, round one begins on Wednesday. But for team captains, the...
Samarkand 2026: India defends its double crown on the Silk Road at the largest Chess Olympiad in historySamarkand needs no opening whistle. This two-thousand-year-old city on the Si...
From Twelve Draws in London to Armageddon: When the Clock Rewrites Chess HistoryOn the night of November 26, 2026, in London, the twelfth game of the World...
