Chess
The Scandinavian Defense: Why a 60-Minute Course Leans on Carlsen's Name
Karsten Müller and the Craft of Writing Endgames: Authority Built on Board and Page
The Scotch Opening: from Kasparov's 2026 weapon to the promise that Black 'need not panic'
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes and Five Opening Lines That Define Black
From Tsaghkadzor to the Grand Board: When 9...a5 Gives Chess Back to Humans
The Early Queen and the Sixty-Minute PromiseThe Board Left Behind After Midnight In the last room at the end of a narrow...
Modern Italian 5.e5!: The Three Critical Replies and the Data Gap Inside a 60-Minute VideoThis month, going back through my archive, I opened the Stage-1 file of a che...
Modern Italian Opening: A Practical Weapon or a Trap for Vietnamese Club Chess?A 60-minute instructional video on the Modern Italian, built around 1 e4 e5 2...
A King's Indian DVD teaching 9...a5: cheaper to memorise, but nobody has measured the time billA coffee shop in the alley off Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street, Thursday night....
The Pawn Sacrifice and the Marketing Trap: When a 'Benko Gambit Review' Is Really Just an AdvertisementI reopened a chess product page a colleague sent me last week. The headline w...
The Chess Game of Trust: When a Second Move Redefines the Entire BoardThere was a moment in Da Nang, on a Saturday morning, when I sat at a café by...
A Tournament Headline That Doesn't Exist, a 60-Minute Chess Course: Reading the Fine Print on IM Andrew Martin's Scandinavian DefenseI opened the link at 2 a.m. Delhi time, after closing the week's latest podca...
The Scandinavian Defense: Why a 60-Minute Course Leans on Carlsen's NameOn table seven of a small chess club tucked down an alley off Huaihai Road in...
The Swapped Game: Woodward Beats Caruana, but the Page Is Selling an OpeningI opened the file at 23:47, Shenzhen time. On the screen was a textbook chess...
AI Proves the 63-Check Limit: A 58-Year Milestone in Combinatorial ChessIn 2026, in an era when top-level chess was still recorded on carbon paper an...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and the Data Gaps Behind ItThe 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners has begun....
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov Revived It, and Why an Anti-Scotch Video MattersThis summer, while the chess world was caught up in the major tournaments, a...
Chess Bundesliga 2026/87: The Postponed Game and a Lesson in TrustI still remember a winter evening in Da Nang, sitting before the screen waiti...
FIDE Shortens Time Controls: When the Chess World Learns to Save Every SecondThe chess clock is a strange creature. It does not measure time the way human...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters: A Real Result, But a Story Still Missing Its DataThere are always two notebooks on my desk. The first records what has been...
The Dispute in the Bundesliga: The Forgotten Elephant and the Lesson of the Second MoveIn the Bundesliga, the strongest team league in European chess, people come t...
Karsten Müller and the Craft of Writing Endgames: Authority Built on Board and PageLate at night in Chengdu, I replayed an old recording. On the screen, a young...
Unbeaten at the US Chess Championship and the Defensive Problem after 1.d4 d5: The Nameless MovesA night in Saint Petersburg, I sat before a screen in a small apartment,...
The Scotch Opening: from Kasparov's 2026 weapon to the promise that Black 'need not panic'New York – Lyon, 2026. The board was broadcast live to millions. Garry...
Game of the Week #743: When a Chess Game Becomes a Data MonasteryOn a Wednesday evening, in an apartment in Amsterdam, a Dutch International...
Modern Italian 5.e5!: The Three Critical Replies and the Data Gap Inside a 60-Minute VideoThis month, going back through my archive, I opened the Stage-1 file of a che...
Modern Italian Opening: A Practical Weapon or a Trap for Vietnamese Club Chess?A 60-minute instructional video on the Modern Italian, built around 1 e4 e5 2...
A King's Indian DVD teaching 9...a5: cheaper to memorise, but nobody has measured the time billA coffee shop in the alley off Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street, Thursday night....
The Pawn Sacrifice and the Marketing Trap: When a 'Benko Gambit Review' Is Really Just an AdvertisementI reopened a chess product page a colleague sent me last week. The headline w...
The Chess Game of Trust: When a Second Move Redefines the Entire BoardThere was a moment in Da Nang, on a Saturday morning, when I sat at a café by...
A Tournament Headline That Doesn't Exist, a 60-Minute Chess Course: Reading the Fine Print on IM Andrew Martin's Scandinavian DefenseI opened the link at 2 a.m. Delhi time, after closing the week's latest podca...
The Scandinavian Defense: Why a 60-Minute Course Leans on Carlsen's NameOn table seven of a small chess club tucked down an alley off Huaihai Road in...
The Swapped Game: Woodward Beats Caruana, but the Page Is Selling an OpeningI opened the file at 23:47, Shenzhen time. On the screen was a textbook chess...
AI Proves the 63-Check Limit: A 58-Year Milestone in Combinatorial ChessIn 2026, in an era when top-level chess was still recorded on carbon paper an...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: A Record 140 Teams and the Data Gaps Behind ItThe 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners has begun....
The Scotch Opening: How Kasparov Revived It, and Why an Anti-Scotch Video MattersThis summer, while the chess world was caught up in the major tournaments, a...
Chess Bundesliga 2026/87: The Postponed Game and a Lesson in TrustI still remember a winter evening in Da Nang, sitting before the screen waiti...
FIDE Shortens Time Controls: When the Chess World Learns to Save Every SecondThe chess clock is a strange creature. It does not measure time the way human...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters: A Real Result, But a Story Still Missing Its DataThere are always two notebooks on my desk. The first records what has been...
The Dispute in the Bundesliga: The Forgotten Elephant and the Lesson of the Second MoveIn the Bundesliga, the strongest team league in European chess, people come t...
Karsten Müller and the Craft of Writing Endgames: Authority Built on Board and PageLate at night in Chengdu, I replayed an old recording. On the screen, a young...
Unbeaten at the US Chess Championship and the Defensive Problem after 1.d4 d5: The Nameless MovesA night in Saint Petersburg, I sat before a screen in a small apartment,...
The Scotch Opening: from Kasparov's 2026 weapon to the promise that Black 'need not panic'New York – Lyon, 2026. The board was broadcast live to millions. Garry...
Game of the Week #743: When a Chess Game Becomes a Data MonasteryOn a Wednesday evening, in an apartment in Amsterdam, a Dutch International...