Chess
Gukesh at Board 4: The World Champion's Quiet Move in Samarkand2026-09-19Inside India's technical meeting in Samarkand, the board-order sheet was pass...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: 11 Rounds, 4 Boards, 1 Reserve — and a Zero in the Broadcast Column2026-09-16There is a number in the pre-event coverage of the 2026 Chess Olympiad that...
Samarkand Round 8 and the Sixty-Minute Video: The Gap Between Two Lines of Text2026-09-26I read that headline on an evening in Da Nang, after I had already switched o...
Behind the Evaluation Bar: The Heat-Map Trap in Chess2026-09-20On the last night of a chess tournament in Da Nang, after the hall had gone...
Samarkand Round 8 and the Sixty-Minute Video: The Gap Between Two Lines of TextI read that headline on an evening in Da Nang, after I had already switched o...
Behind the Evaluation Bar: The Heat-Map Trap in ChessOn the last night of a chess tournament in Da Nang, after the hall had gone...
Gukesh at Board 4: The World Champion's Quiet Move in SamarkandInside India's technical meeting in Samarkand, the board-order sheet was pass...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A King's Indian Antidote That Still Needs VerifyingA Headline That Does Not Belong to Its Own Body On the screen, the line reads...
Samarkand and the Silent Ballot: When Chess Searches for Its Steward Between Two ErasA native Vietnamese long-form sports feature exploring the FIDE presidential...
Inside an Opening DVD: The Move 9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack and the Data GapTuesday evening, October 14, 2026, second floor of a coffee shop on Nguyen Di...
FIDE Votes on September 26 in Samarkand: Rosenstein's Pledge to Bring Carlsen Back and His Governance RecordAbout three weeks before the vote, a name most Vietnamese chess fans had neve...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: A Strategic Answer to the Bayonet Attack and the Blind Spots Behind ItThe game splits at move nine. White pushes the pawn to b4. That is the Bayone...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: 11 Rounds, 4 Boards, 1 Reserve — and a Zero in the Broadcast ColumnThere is a number in the pre-event coverage of the 2026 Chess Olympiad that...
5.e5 and the Sveshnikov Ghost: An 'Easy-to-Learn, Trap-Rich' Opening Under the Data LensIntroduction — The Forty-Second Pause Shanghai, a rainy evening in late...
Petroff, Two Positional-Play Courses, and the Real Problem of the Chess Training MarketOn a morning in Da Nang, I opened ChessBase's new-releases list for August. A...
Samarkand 2026: India's Chess Dynasty and the Forgotten Fourth BoardIn 2026, in Manila, I sat in a small coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street i...
Samarkand 2026: The Chess Torch, the India–Central Asia Axis, and Three Names That Need VerificationI watched that clip three times, muted. No commentator, no background music, ...
India after the Olympiad Gold: When a Coach's Praise Becomes a Claim That Needs Verifying"Pushed out into the AFC Cup 2026 corridor, I learned to read a match from th...
