Chess
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik, 2715, and the Match That Only Begins in Round FiveThe round-three pairing sheet in Budva was printed on A3 paper and taped to t...
US Championships: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap, and the Data Void Behind the HeadlineAt the US Chess Championship, Woodward defeated Fabiano Caruana. In the women...
When the Scotch Is No Longer Fearsome: Adrian Mikhalchishin and a Defensive Lesson for BlackThe first three moves of a game are never its most exciting part. People...
Liang Beats Niemann in Round 1 of the US Championships: A News Headline, A Product CatalogueThe headline reads like a news report. "US Championships: Liang beats Niemann...
The 9...a5 Move and the Empty Chair: When the Chess World Calls the Wrong Name at the Head of the TableMornings in Binh Duong usually begin with a cup of unsweetened black coffee a...
Chess and the 'Least Expressive' Debate: Re-reading a Judgment From Outside the BoardThere is one sentence I have heard no fewer than ten times in eighteen years ...
9...a5 and the Bayonet Problem: When the King's Indian Defense Forces Players to Choose Between Memory and UnderstandingThere is an October evening in Nha Trang that I still remember vividly. I was...
Super Knight: The Scandinavian Defense and the War Against Theoretical OblivionI remember a winter evening in a small chess club tucked deep in an alley in...
Midfield Gambit from Italian Opening: Dissecting Hà Nội FC Movement at V.League 2026From the sideline corridor, I see the entire match. On August 12, 2026, at Ha...
The King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move and the Strategic Choice Against the Bayonet AttackTHE 9...a5 MOVE IN THE KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE: A STRATEGIC CHOICE AGAINST THE...
The 9...a5 Move and the 'ChessMom' Deception: When Elite Chess Gets Packaged with Marketing TricksIn 2026, while working as an analysis assistant for SHB Da Nang, I once...
India wins Chess Olympiad 2026: The move of a young generationBudapest, September 2026. I do not remember the sound of the pieces touching...
The champion's board four and the silence on the top two boards: India enters the final round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad powered from belowThey say girls know nothing about tactics. So I write for them to read. There...
Uzbekistan Gold, India Silver: Board Four and the Decisive Gap in SamarkandIn Samarkand, the game on board four ended in silence before the gallery coul...
FRITZ 20: When a Chess Engine Becomes a Personal Coach for Vietnamese PlayersIn December 2026, in a small chess room in Nha Trang, I sat next to a...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Defense: A Practical Escape That Still Needs DataLate at night in Chengdu, I rebuilt an amateur player's game on my screen....
Seven Systems, Six Videos: When the Opening-Course Market Misprices ItselfA Number Knocking at 3 A.M. One October evening I sat re-sorting my chess...
The Empty Board at Sinquefield: When Chess Learned to Trust DataOn the night of September 4, 2026, in Saint Louis, a chessboard was cleared. ...
9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: a strategic move and the limits of an opening promiseOn the wooden board by the window of a small room in Nha Trang, the b4 square...
Petroff, Calculation and Positional Chess: Inside the Chess World's August Training PipelineOn the evening of September 12, at a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai...
