Chess
Italian Game’s 5.e5: A Sharp Move, but Its Success Claims Remain Unverified
Petroff or Scandinavian? Questions Over a 60-Minute Chess Course, Carlsen's Name and the Reality of Opening Preparation
The Fifteen-Year-Old Bavarian Illusion: Why Hussain Besou's Co-Lead Should Be Read in the Mirror of Our Chess Infrastructure
Heartbeats in Paltan: Bangladesh's Silent Epidemic on the Chess Board
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Course Whose Title Doesn't Match Its Own Move
Budva's 2715: What the European Club Cup's Favourite Number Conceals
Italian Game’s 5.e5: A Sharp Move, but Its Success Claims Remain UnverifiedWhen White opens the centre with 4.d4 in the Italian Game and follows with...
Petroff or Scandinavian? Questions Over a 60-Minute Chess Course, Carlsen's Name and the Reality of Opening PreparationOne Title, Two Openings: Questions Over the Reliability of Chess Course...
One Video, Two Openings: The Ledger Behind the 60-Minute Black Repertoire Pitch1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 — and 1.e4 d5. In notation the two lines sit almost next to...
The Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes: Petroff or Scandinavian, a Course Identity Dispute at the CentreThe most consequential decision in a chess game can arrive within the first t...
The Fifteen-Year-Old Bavarian Illusion: Why Hussain Besou's Co-Lead Should Be Read in the Mirror of Our Chess InfrastructureThat steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still opens in my imagination. On an...
Eighth-Round Fatigue, Wei Yi's Closed Queenside, and an Incomplete Course DossierI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than any tackl...
Heartbeats in Paltan: Bangladesh's Silent Epidemic on the Chess BoardI sat in the BCF hall at Purana Paltan with a stopwatch. April 2026. The...
An Italian Line Sold Under a Chigorin Label: How Colour Confusion Is Corrupting the Chess Opening MarketI opened an opening product page last week and stopped. The title read:...
Fujairah to host WFCC Grand Prix Final, but the report's body is a ChessBase Magazine promotionFujairah, one of the United Arab Emirates, is set to host the World Federatio...
Prague's Games, a Training Product, and the Empty Line in the LedgerLast Tuesday I opened the PDF booklet of ChessBase Magazine No. 225 at my des...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Moves: The Report That Was Never Under a Saint Louis HeadlineI opened the page with a notebook ready for the pairings. The headline...
The Mislabeled Gambit: Sixty Minutes of 'Surprise Weapon' and the Memory Economy of Club ChessThe first thing that stops you is the label, because the label is wrong. Half...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Course Whose Title Doesn't Match Its Own MoveThe round at the Purana Paltan hall ended at seven in the evening. The laptop...
A NATO Win in the Headline, a Najdorf Update in the Body: Chess Journalism's Data GapNine words in the headline: Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye triumph at NATO Ches...
FIDE President in the Headline, a Financier on the Page: Auditing the Turlov–Cyprus Meeting and the Cost of One ErrorAt ten past two in the morning in Mumbai, a wire headline crossed my screen:...
Petroff or Scandinavian? Questions Over a 60-Minute Chess Course, Carlsen's Name and the Reality of Opening PreparationOne Title, Two Openings: Questions Over the Reliability of Chess Course...
One Video, Two Openings: The Ledger Behind the 60-Minute Black Repertoire Pitch1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 — and 1.e4 d5. In notation the two lines sit almost next to...
The Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes: Petroff or Scandinavian, a Course Identity Dispute at the CentreThe most consequential decision in a chess game can arrive within the first t...
The Fifteen-Year-Old Bavarian Illusion: Why Hussain Besou's Co-Lead Should Be Read in the Mirror of Our Chess InfrastructureThat steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still opens in my imagination. On an...
Eighth-Round Fatigue, Wei Yi's Closed Queenside, and an Incomplete Course DossierI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than any tackl...
Heartbeats in Paltan: Bangladesh's Silent Epidemic on the Chess BoardI sat in the BCF hall at Purana Paltan with a stopwatch. April 2026. The...
An Italian Line Sold Under a Chigorin Label: How Colour Confusion Is Corrupting the Chess Opening MarketI opened an opening product page last week and stopped. The title read:...
Fujairah to host WFCC Grand Prix Final, but the report's body is a ChessBase Magazine promotionFujairah, one of the United Arab Emirates, is set to host the World Federatio...
Prague's Games, a Training Product, and the Empty Line in the LedgerLast Tuesday I opened the PDF booklet of ChessBase Magazine No. 225 at my des...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Moves: The Report That Was Never Under a Saint Louis HeadlineI opened the page with a notebook ready for the pairings. The headline...
The Mislabeled Gambit: Sixty Minutes of 'Surprise Weapon' and the Memory Economy of Club ChessThe first thing that stops you is the label, because the label is wrong. Half...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Course Whose Title Doesn't Match Its Own MoveThe round at the Purana Paltan hall ended at seven in the evening. The laptop...
A NATO Win in the Headline, a Najdorf Update in the Body: Chess Journalism's Data GapNine words in the headline: Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye triumph at NATO Ches...
FIDE President in the Headline, a Financier on the Page: Auditing the Turlov–Cyprus Meeting and the Cost of One ErrorAt ten past two in the morning in Mumbai, a wire headline crossed my screen:...