Chess
The Elephant Gambit: 60 Minutes for a Surprise Weapon, and Its Price
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Magazine Hidden Behind the Headline
Chess Bundesliga 2026/87: A Relegation Decided by Arrival Time, Not by Moves
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters: What the Footage Has Not Yet Confirmed
The Elephant Gambit: 60 Minutes for a Surprise Weapon, and Its PriceOn Gorokhovaya Street, in November, the snow had not yet fallen but the café...
The Forgotten Move: When a Benko Gambit Game Is No Longer ReadThere is a truth I have often avoided saying in my commentary, and perhaps at...
The 60-Minute Gambit: How Decoding a Second Move Became the Club Player's WeaponIn a rapid chess game at a Chengdu club, I encountered a position that does n...
King's Indian Defense: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack and the Line Between 'Antidote' and 'Equalizing Sideline'I still remember an evening at an open tournament in Shanghai a few years ago...
"Dortmund 2027" and the Scandinavian Defense: Anatomy of a Chess Course Sales PageOn the screen, the headline appeared: "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027." For...
US Chess Championship: Woodward beats Caruana, Lee widens the gap — and the gap between the headline and the boardThree in the morning, St. Petersburg time. A small apartment on Petrogradskay...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Magazine Hidden Behind the HeadlineAt the Atyrau Masters, the top two seeds left the tournament in the opening...
Scotch and Kasparov's Revival: When a Dismissed Opening Became a Champion's WeaponThere is a sequence of moves I have replayed hundreds of times in game record...
A FIDE Shorter Time Controls Headline Misattached to a Scandinavian Defense VideoWhen the Headline and the Body Tell Two Different Stories A headline states...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: Record 140 Teams ParticipateThe 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners has official...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Weapon for Club PlayersOn a late afternoon in Chengdu, I sat watching a recording of a club game. My...
Chess Bundesliga 2026/87: A Relegation Decided by Arrival Time, Not by MovesA match in the 2026/87 Chess Bundesliga season began later than the scheduled...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters: What the Footage Has Not Yet ConfirmedAt Shenzhen, a game ended and the name Yu Yangyi was placed next to a victory...
Karsten Müller: The Endgame Teacher Magnus Carlsen Had to Learn From, and the Data Gap No One Wants to FillMagnus Carlsen, the world number one, once said his endgame ability improved...
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: A Real Result with Unverified DataIn my tracking notebook, every international chess event gets its own page, a...
Liang Beats Niemann in US Championships Opener: When the 2026 Generation Knocks on the DoorThe first round of the United States Chess Championship ended with victory fo...
The 5.e5 Move and the Strange Comforts of Superstition in ChessThat night, in a small chess café on Nguyễn Chí Thanh Street in Da Nang, I sa...
Game of the Week #743: When Chess Lives on Habit, Not ShockOn the screen, a chessboard appears slowly. No stands, no cheering, no...
UzChess Cup: The Short Game Between Jacobson and Vakhidov, and Two Opening Names That Refuse to MeetIn a promotional blurb less than a page long, two lines sit close together an...
Is Chess the Least Expressive Sport? A Provocative View from a Former Badminton Athlete and the Audience Challenge Facing Vietnamese ChessIn a personal opinion commentary published on August 13, 2026, Naganethra Red...