Chess
The Elephant's Daring Move: How Andrew Martin Revived the Elephant Gambit and the Lesson for Football Tactics
Gukesh Taking Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: A Team Move, Not a Shock
The FIDE Election on September 26: The Promise to Bring Carlsen Back and Rosenstein's Ethical Test
An Analysis With Not a Single Number: The Most Honest Document the Chess Data Industry Ever Published
The Road to the 2026 Candidates: World Cup, Grand Swiss and the Rating-Spot Race
Vaishali and Divya Deshmukh After the Olympiad Title: Praise, Pressure and a Data Gap
5.e5! in the Modern Italian: a real edge, or a depreciating opening line?The seventh round of a weekend open in Saigon last month ran forty-one moves....
Total Chess unveils a unified rating system: Budapest 2026 opens the pilot, but the definition is still missingOn 10 November 2026, in Budapest, four players will sit at a board for twelve...
The Move That Is Not on the Board: When a 'Benko Gambit Review' Is Really a Tool AdvertisementIn my database there is a file that should have been deleted long ago, but I...
The Elephant's Daring Move: How Andrew Martin Revived the Elephant Gambit and the Lesson for Football TacticsIn a world where every move is quantified to the decimal, a twenty-year-old...
9...a5: The Low-Theory Detour Against the Bayonet AttackIn May 2026, IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov over six games. Ten months...
The 5.e5! thrust in the Italian Game: reading Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap from a club player's chairThe home board has no grandstand, yet every time a piece touches the wood, an...
Fritz 20: When the Chess Machine Becomes a Personal CoachAt five in the morning in Nha Trang, the cooling fan of an old laptop hums as...
The Scotch Opening: From Kasparov's Weapon to Mikhalchishin's Neutralizing MethodIn 2026, in Lyon, Garry Kasparov played white against Anatoly Karpov and open...
Samarkand: U.S. Women Reach 15/16 Board Points While Daniel King Extends the Najdorf StoryAt Samarkand, after Round 4, the United States women’s team posted 15/16 boar...
Gukesh Taking Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: A Team Move, Not a ShockIndia's board order for the Chess Olympiad was published in Samarkand on the...
The FIDE Election on September 26: The Promise to Bring Carlsen Back and Rosenstein's Ethical TestOn the night of September 26, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the FIDE General...