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The Scandinavian Defense: Sixty Minutes Buys the Moves, Not the Middlegame Map2026-10-20The headline read: “From quitting chess to becoming a Grandmaster.” I clicked...
The Scandinavian Defense: An Opening You Buy in 60 Minutes, a Middlegame You Pay For Over Years2026-10-20The fourth blitz game of Tuesday night, in a coffee shop on Nguyen Du Street....
Double Agent and the 58-Year-Old Problem: When 63 Checking Moves Became a Proven Limit2026-10-15On the board there is no clock. There is no opponent seated across, no arbite...
Bodhana Sivanandan: The 11-Year-Old Prodigy of England's Women's Team Turns Heads at the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand2026-10-08The 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand is at its midpoint, and once the seventh...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: Five Anti-Najdorf Lines and a Headline That Belongs Elsewhere1:40 a.m., Shenzhen. I open a source file that has just landed in the editori...
The Scandinavian Defense: Sixty Minutes Buys the Moves, Not the Middlegame MapThe headline read: “From quitting chess to becoming a Grandmaster.” I clicked...
The Scandinavian Defense: An Opening You Buy in 60 Minutes, a Middlegame You Pay For Over YearsThe fourth blitz game of Tuesday night, in a coffee shop on Nguyen Du Street....
5 e5! in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon and the Data Gap Nobody Has MeasuredEleven at night in Nha Trang, I reopened the data package of a chess video th...
Total Chess launches Budapest event in November 2026: the unified rating system still has no methodologyOn 29 August 2026, a short news item went out across chess media channels. Th...
9...a5: The Quiet Sideline Against the Bayonet in the King's Indian DefenceMove nine. White pushes the pawn to b4. The pawn stops on an empty square,...
The Scandinavian Defense: The 'Learn in 60 Minutes, Play Today' Promise and the Carlsen Name Behind ItOn a chess course sales page, the line that hits you is not a position but a...
The US Chess Championship, and an Opening Course Dressed as NewsThere is a gap sitting right on the front page, and it is not small. The...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Closed, 364 Still OpenThere are positions that, the moment you look at them, tell you that you are...
Double Agent and the 58-Year-Old Problem: When 63 Checking Moves Became a Proven LimitOn the board there is no clock. There is no opponent seated across, no arbite...
Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Breakthrough and Mikhalchishin's Counter-SystemOn a chess product page, the headline reads "Young British Prodigies". Scroll...
As FIDE Moves to Shorter Time Controls, the Opening Market Answers With a 60-Minute VideoA FIDE General Assembly resolution on shorter time controls. A 60-minute vide...
The Scandinavian Defense: Sixty Minutes Buys the Moves, Not the Middlegame MapThe headline read: “From quitting chess to becoming a Grandmaster.” I clicked...
The Scandinavian Defense: An Opening You Buy in 60 Minutes, a Middlegame You Pay For Over YearsThe fourth blitz game of Tuesday night, in a coffee shop on Nguyen Du Street....
5 e5! in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon and the Data Gap Nobody Has MeasuredEleven at night in Nha Trang, I reopened the data package of a chess video th...
Total Chess launches Budapest event in November 2026: the unified rating system still has no methodologyOn 29 August 2026, a short news item went out across chess media channels. Th...
9...a5: The Quiet Sideline Against the Bayonet in the King's Indian DefenceMove nine. White pushes the pawn to b4. The pawn stops on an empty square,...
The Scandinavian Defense: The 'Learn in 60 Minutes, Play Today' Promise and the Carlsen Name Behind ItOn a chess course sales page, the line that hits you is not a position but a...
The US Chess Championship, and an Opening Course Dressed as NewsThere is a gap sitting right on the front page, and it is not small. The...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Closed, 364 Still OpenThere are positions that, the moment you look at them, tell you that you are...
Double Agent and the 58-Year-Old Problem: When 63 Checking Moves Became a Proven LimitOn the board there is no clock. There is no opponent seated across, no arbite...
Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Breakthrough and Mikhalchishin's Counter-SystemOn a chess product page, the headline reads "Young British Prodigies". Scroll...
As FIDE Moves to Shorter Time Controls, the Opening Market Answers With a 60-Minute VideoA FIDE General Assembly resolution on shorter time controls. A 60-minute vide...