Chess
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye Win the NATO Chess Championship: A Title Whose Real Story Isn't on the Scoreboard
Scandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Unverified Carlsen Endorsement
A Cover Promising 'Comfortable Wins', a Body With No Moves: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Economy of Professional Chess
Comfortable Wins and a Biased Sample of 27 Miniatures: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a Labour-Market Document
Two Products, One File: The Fritz 20 Ledger Hidden Inside a Benko Gambit Review
FIDE President's Cyprus Visit: An Unsourced Headline Wrapped Around an Advertisement
ChessVahap Sanal and Team Türkiye Win the NATO Chess Championship: A Title Whose Real Story Isn't on the ScoreboardOn a February morning, in the corridor of a European garrison town, a boy was...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Unverified Carlsen EndorsementMagnus Carlsen's name works like a magnet for any chess product. When...
ChessFIDE President's Cyprus Visit: An Unsourced Headline Wrapped Around an AdvertisementThe news of FIDE President Timur Turlov's visit to Cyprus and his meeting wit...
ChessA Cover Promising 'Comfortable Wins', a Body With No Moves: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Economy of Professional ChessThree things stay permanently open on my desk in Delhi: a rating list, an old...
ChessTotal Chess in Budapest: Eleven Days, Four Names, and a Rating Promise With No LedgerOn 29 August 2026 a note arrived in my inbox carrying six facts and one photo...
ChessThe Empty Hall After Move Nine: 9...a5 as the 'Antidote' to the Bayonet, and a Claim With No WitnessA product note arrived in my inbox this week. Four pages. At the top, an...
ChessThe 'Antidote' at 9...a5: A Ledger on the King's Indian Mar del Plata That Records Not a Single GameLast week a promotional blurb for an opening product on the King's Indian, Ma...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Unresolved Question of Carlsen's NameIn five decades of watching chess coverage, one thing has remained constant i...
ChessTotal Chess's Budapest Pilot: A 'Unified Rating System' in the Headline, Not a Line of It in the ReleaseThe release dated 29 August 2026 carried a headline: "Total Chess proposes a...
ChessComfortable Wins and a Biased Sample of 27 Miniatures: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a Labour-Market DocumentThe cover of issue 225 points at the European Club Cup (ECCC) and promises...
ChessTwo Products, One File: The Fritz 20 Ledger Hidden Inside a Benko Gambit ReviewThe first page of the file was clean. The title read: "The Modern Benko Gambi...
ChessTotal Chess Budapest Pilot: The Format Is Clear, the Rating Question Is NotThe first thing visible in the announcement of 29 August 2026 is not Magnus...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Unverified Carlsen EndorsementMagnus Carlsen's name works like a magnet for any chess product. When...
ChessFIDE President's Cyprus Visit: An Unsourced Headline Wrapped Around an AdvertisementThe news of FIDE President Timur Turlov's visit to Cyprus and his meeting wit...
ChessA Cover Promising 'Comfortable Wins', a Body With No Moves: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Economy of Professional ChessThree things stay permanently open on my desk in Delhi: a rating list, an old...
ChessTotal Chess in Budapest: Eleven Days, Four Names, and a Rating Promise With No LedgerOn 29 August 2026 a note arrived in my inbox carrying six facts and one photo...
ChessThe Empty Hall After Move Nine: 9...a5 as the 'Antidote' to the Bayonet, and a Claim With No WitnessA product note arrived in my inbox this week. Four pages. At the top, an...
ChessThe 'Antidote' at 9...a5: A Ledger on the King's Indian Mar del Plata That Records Not a Single GameLast week a promotional blurb for an opening product on the King's Indian, Ma...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Unresolved Question of Carlsen's NameIn five decades of watching chess coverage, one thing has remained constant i...
ChessTotal Chess's Budapest Pilot: A 'Unified Rating System' in the Headline, Not a Line of It in the ReleaseThe release dated 29 August 2026 carried a headline: "Total Chess proposes a...
ChessComfortable Wins and a Biased Sample of 27 Miniatures: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a Labour-Market DocumentThe cover of issue 225 points at the European Club Cup (ECCC) and promises...
ChessTwo Products, One File: The Fritz 20 Ledger Hidden Inside a Benko Gambit ReviewThe first page of the file was clean. The title read: "The Modern Benko Gambi...
ChessTotal Chess Budapest Pilot: The Format Is Clear, the Rating Question Is NotThe first thing visible in the announcement of 29 August 2026 is not Magnus...