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European Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Half-Board-Point Gap2026-10-22I am not ashamed to admit that I have, more than once, announced a result too...
A NATO Title, Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, and an Empty Scoresheet2026-10-22The first line of the file announced a national triumph: “Vahap Sanal and Tea...
A Headline of 'Comfortable Wins', a Body With Zero Moves: The Empty Square Inside ChessBase Magazine #2252026-10-22I read any chess product page the way I read a match report: headline first,...
European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the favourites, but the magazine tells another story2026-10-22The cover of ChessBase Magazine #225 promises 'comfortable wins for the...
Scandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Weight of Carlsen's Name2026-10-22I keep the stopwatch running long after the race has ended. Here the race is ...
ChessScandinavian Defense: Carlsen's Name, the Club Player's Dream, and the Blur of 60 MinutesThe particular smell of a tournament hall — old wood on the boards at a Chenn...
ChessForty Minutes of Quiet: Black's New Breath in the Closed Window of Mar del PlataA studio built in a Kolkata bedroom, a frozen screen, and eight thousand peop...
ChessCarlsen's AI Statement: What Was Actually Said and What Was HeardJust before the first World Open Chess Championship in Budapest from November...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The 2715 Average and the Half-Board-Point GapI am not ashamed to admit that I have, more than once, announced a result too...
ChessA NATO Title, Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, and an Empty ScoresheetThe first line of the file announced a national triumph: “Vahap Sanal and Tea...
ChessA Headline of 'Comfortable Wins', a Body With Zero Moves: The Empty Square Inside ChessBase Magazine #225I read any chess product page the way I read a match report: headline first,...
ChessA European Club Cup Headline, a Prague Body: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a LedgerBefore I open any coverage I build a blank sheet with three columns: fact,...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the favourites, but the magazine tells another storyThe cover of ChessBase Magazine #225 promises 'comfortable wins for the...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Weight of Carlsen's NameI keep the stopwatch running long after the race has ended. Here the race is ...
ChessBenko Gambit Repertoire or FRITZ 20: One Product Page, Two Identities, and an Unsigned ScoreKolkata, November 2026. The first Tata Steel Chess India blitz stage,...
ChessThe 'Antidote' Claim for 9...a5: Not a Single Game Entered in the Mar del Plata LedgerLast week I opened the promotional page of a chess opening product and carrie...
ChessA Benko Gambit Review and a FRITZ 20 Blurb: When the Title and the Body Take Different RoadsIn a Secunderabad hall there were 214 boards and only 19 of them had girls...
ChessEuropean Club Cup in Budva and the Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Video That Reveals Chess's Overlooked TruthThe hall in Budva was silent. It was the same silence I had learned in Bonn i...
ChessA Benko Gambit Review or a FRITZ 20 Advertisement: Post-Mortem of a Metadata MismatchA file landed on my desk last week. The title read: "Review: The Modern Benko...