Chess
European Club Cup in Budva: The 2715 Average, 108 Teams, and the Number 22 Nobody Reads
Repairing the Najdorf: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Club Player's Unanswered Question
77 Teams, Five Continents and an Empty Scoreboard: A Data Audit of FIDE's Prison Chess Championship
The Empty Hall Before the Record: An 11-Year-Old, a 2465 Performance, and the International Master Claim
Repairing the Najdorf: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Club Player's Unanswered QuestionA Thursday night at a Mumbai chess club last year. On the board, the Najdorf...
77 Teams, Five Continents and an Empty Scoreboard: A Data Audit of FIDE's Prison Chess ChampionshipHook Between 13 and 23 May 2026, a tournament was played that FIDE calls the...
The Empty Hall Before the Record: An 11-Year-Old, a 2465 Performance, and the International Master ClaimI opened the notebook and found the tournament nobody televised. The date was...
Najdorf Update: How Much Truth, How Much Salesmanship in 60 Minutes?December 28, 2026, Riyadh. The World Rapid tiebreak ended around 2 a.m. IST. ...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Five Line Clusters, One Maintenance Model, and the Question the Review Never AsksSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Twelve minutes apiece. That number does no...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: He Beat Caruana in the Tiebreak, but the Clock Made the CallFour minutes before the second rapid game of the tiebreak, an arbiter at the...
The Story With No Moves In It: Scandinavian Defence, Sixty Minutes, and a Mispaired HeadlineTwo documents reached my Moscow desk in the same envelope. The first carried ...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams on One Score — Not a Coincidence, a Scoring CalculationOn Monday night, 20 October 2026, the round-four pairing sheet went up on the...
The Human Accuracy Ceiling: Why Carlsen Chose to Open His Own Game's LimitSingapore, December 2026. After the 58th move of the fourteenth game, the...
European Club Cup in Budva: The 2715 Average, 108 Teams, and the Number 22 Nobody Reads19 October 2026, 11:40 pm, Pune. The European Club Cup team entry list was op...
77 Teams, Five Continents and an Empty Scoreboard: A Data Audit of FIDE's Prison Chess ChampionshipHook Between 13 and 23 May 2026, a tournament was played that FIDE calls the...
The Empty Hall Before the Record: An 11-Year-Old, a 2465 Performance, and the International Master ClaimI opened the notebook and found the tournament nobody televised. The date was...
Najdorf Update: How Much Truth, How Much Salesmanship in 60 Minutes?December 28, 2026, Riyadh. The World Rapid tiebreak ended around 2 a.m. IST. ...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Five Line Clusters, One Maintenance Model, and the Question the Review Never AsksSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Twelve minutes apiece. That number does no...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: He Beat Caruana in the Tiebreak, but the Clock Made the CallFour minutes before the second rapid game of the tiebreak, an arbiter at the...
The Story With No Moves In It: Scandinavian Defence, Sixty Minutes, and a Mispaired HeadlineTwo documents reached my Moscow desk in the same envelope. The first carried ...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams on One Score — Not a Coincidence, a Scoring CalculationOn Monday night, 20 October 2026, the round-four pairing sheet went up on the...
The Human Accuracy Ceiling: Why Carlsen Chose to Open His Own Game's LimitSingapore, December 2026. After the 58th move of the fourteenth game, the...
European Club Cup in Budva: The 2715 Average, 108 Teams, and the Number 22 Nobody Reads19 October 2026, 11:40 pm, Pune. The European Club Cup team entry list was op...