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Sasikiran Wins Bavarian Championship on Tiebreak as FRITZ 20 Claims a Training Revolution
The Sword of Damocles: Commercial Promise and Strategic Reality of a One-Hour Scandinavian Defense Course
The Empty Folder, the Full Board: Bangladesh's Five Grandmasters and the Arithmetic of a Patron Drought
Confusion Over FIDE General Assembly Resolution on Shorter Time Controls: Actually a Scandinavian Defense Video Review
Sasikiran Wins Bavarian Championship on Tiebreak as FRITZ 20 Claims a Training RevolutionAn Indian Grandmaster, Sasikiran, has won the Bavarian Championship on tiebre...
Petroff Defence, Scandinavian Defence and the 60-Minute Promise: A Ledger Audit of One Opening CourseHook Last week I opened a sales page for an opening-preparation video course....
Petroff, Scandinavian and the 60-Minute Promise: The Error Buried in a Chess Video's Own TitleA chess video's sales page carries a title — ‘The Petroff Defence – Fight for...
Petroff or Scandinavian? A 60-Minute Chess Course Raises Questions Over Accuracy, Carlsen's Endorsement and Black's Winning PromiseA 60-minute chess course promises something that every busy club player wants...
Fifteen-Year-Old Besou and Chess's 'Prodigy Filter': How a Regional Signal Becomes an Elite-Trajectory StoryI stopped when I saw a mid-event table from the Bavarian Championship....
World Champion on Board Four: India's Quiet Revolution in Team ChessFirst, a small scene. Anish Giri, playing Black, offered a draw in a roughly...
Echoes from the Steel Cupboard: Why the Real Lesson Is Lost Behind the 'Keymer System' TitleThe steel cupboard in the Purana Paltan federation building still holds the...
The Five-Grandmaster Ceiling: Bangladesh Built a Monument Without a Pipeline, and the Revival Is Still UntestedIn March 2026, from a bedroom in Mymensingh, I was opening PGN files of every...
The Sword of Damocles: Commercial Promise and Strategic Reality of a One-Hour Scandinavian Defense CourseA newly released instructional video has put an old, unfashionable defense ba...
Fujairah's Headline, Issue 225's Body: An Announcement With No Date in ItI read the ChessBase piece twice. The first read catches a single sentence:...
The Empty Folder, the Full Board: Bangladesh's Five Grandmasters and the Arithmetic of a Patron DroughtA reading room in Delhi, June 2026. Outside, every screen belonged to the...
A Dortmund Headline, a Scandinavian Body: What a 60-Minute Promise Actually CarriesI read a listing. The headline carried a tournament name — the Dortmund...
The Round Where No Move Was Played: Israel's Forfeit in Samarkand and the Quiet Arithmetic of the Calendar1. Eight Boards, Zero Moves The pairing sheet had the match on it. Netherland...
Not the King's Indian Attack but the Defense: A 15-Point Audit of an Opening DVD's GapAt eleven at night I opened the product page of an opening DVD. The headline...
European Club Cup 2026: Champions in the Headline, a Catalogue in the BodyI went looking for moves. ChessBase’s promotional post for the 2026 European...
Carlsen at 35: Artificial Intelligence, a Worn Body, and a New Architecture of PreparationHook I read the sentence three times, then counted the hops. The original...
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating': A System That Aligns the Numbers but Not the DoorsStart with a number: ten. Ten weeks separate the August 29, 2026 announcement...
Blockchain Chess Domain Analysis: The Rare Case of Zero Information at Stage-2In the world of chess, the importance of analytical reports is growing day by...
Confusion Over FIDE General Assembly Resolution on Shorter Time Controls: Actually a Scandinavian Defense Video ReviewRecently, a significant informational discrepancy has been detected in...
Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4? An Eleven-Year-Old on Board One in Samarkand, and the Ledger Behind 2504Samarkand, board one. I was following the live board from Mumbai with three...
Petroff Defence, Scandinavian Defence and the 60-Minute Promise: A Ledger Audit of One Opening CourseHook Last week I opened a sales page for an opening-preparation video course....
Petroff, Scandinavian and the 60-Minute Promise: The Error Buried in a Chess Video's Own TitleA chess video's sales page carries a title — ‘The Petroff Defence – Fight for...
Petroff or Scandinavian? A 60-Minute Chess Course Raises Questions Over Accuracy, Carlsen's Endorsement and Black's Winning PromiseA 60-minute chess course promises something that every busy club player wants...
Fifteen-Year-Old Besou and Chess's 'Prodigy Filter': How a Regional Signal Becomes an Elite-Trajectory StoryI stopped when I saw a mid-event table from the Bavarian Championship....
World Champion on Board Four: India's Quiet Revolution in Team ChessFirst, a small scene. Anish Giri, playing Black, offered a draw in a roughly...
Echoes from the Steel Cupboard: Why the Real Lesson Is Lost Behind the 'Keymer System' TitleThe steel cupboard in the Purana Paltan federation building still holds the...
The Five-Grandmaster Ceiling: Bangladesh Built a Monument Without a Pipeline, and the Revival Is Still UntestedIn March 2026, from a bedroom in Mymensingh, I was opening PGN files of every...
The Sword of Damocles: Commercial Promise and Strategic Reality of a One-Hour Scandinavian Defense CourseA newly released instructional video has put an old, unfashionable defense ba...
Fujairah's Headline, Issue 225's Body: An Announcement With No Date in ItI read the ChessBase piece twice. The first read catches a single sentence:...
The Empty Folder, the Full Board: Bangladesh's Five Grandmasters and the Arithmetic of a Patron DroughtA reading room in Delhi, June 2026. Outside, every screen belonged to the...
A Dortmund Headline, a Scandinavian Body: What a 60-Minute Promise Actually CarriesI read a listing. The headline carried a tournament name — the Dortmund...
The Round Where No Move Was Played: Israel's Forfeit in Samarkand and the Quiet Arithmetic of the Calendar1. Eight Boards, Zero Moves The pairing sheet had the match on it. Netherland...
Not the King's Indian Attack but the Defense: A 15-Point Audit of an Opening DVD's GapAt eleven at night I opened the product page of an opening DVD. The headline...
European Club Cup 2026: Champions in the Headline, a Catalogue in the BodyI went looking for moves. ChessBase’s promotional post for the 2026 European...
Carlsen at 35: Artificial Intelligence, a Worn Body, and a New Architecture of PreparationHook I read the sentence three times, then counted the hops. The original...
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating': A System That Aligns the Numbers but Not the DoorsStart with a number: ten. Ten weeks separate the August 29, 2026 announcement...
Blockchain Chess Domain Analysis: The Rare Case of Zero Information at Stage-2In the world of chess, the importance of analytical reports is growing day by...
Confusion Over FIDE General Assembly Resolution on Shorter Time Controls: Actually a Scandinavian Defense Video ReviewRecently, a significant informational discrepancy has been detected in...
Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4? An Eleven-Year-Old on Board One in Samarkand, and the Ledger Behind 2504Samarkand, board one. I was following the live board from Mumbai with three...