Chess
The Elephant's Move and the Ghost of a Beautiful HeadlineI was sitting in the small studio at Da Nang Radio and Television, my...
Bodhana Sivanandan: The 11-Year-Old Shaking Up the Chess Olympiad with a 2504 PerformanceAt 11 years old, Bodhana Sivanandan is forcing the chess world to look again....
2026 Chess Olympiad: Vietnam 9th in Women, Group B Gold in Men — The Real Crack Is on Board OneNguyen Thi Mai Hung planted the flag, signed the scoresheet of her final draw...
Three Moves That Broke a Crown: Nihal Sarin, India, and an Award Not Meant for ResultsThirty minutes remained on the clock. My second monitor showed +2 for Nihal...
US Women's Set the Pace in Samarkand: 15/16 Board Points and the Najdorf QuestionThe home field has no stands, but every time the ball rolls, a whole sky of...
Gukesh explains shock move to Board 4 at Chess Olympiad: 'It was my idea'Samarkand – When Team India's lineup was announced for Round 3 of the Chess...
The Mar del Plata Variation and the Move 9...a5: An Opening Promise Without DataI rewind the footage and stop exactly on Black's ninth move. The pawn steps...
9...a5 and the Echo of a Forgotten LineAt a small chess club on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in Saigon, a man of abou...
King's Indian: The 9...a5 Move and the Battle for an 'Antidote' to the Bayonet AttackOn my desk at the Saint Petersburg newsroom, a new opening DVD rests beside a...
Prague 2026 and 27 Miniatures: How Elite Chess Becomes an Open Classroom in ChessBase Magazine #225On a March evening in Prague, with only seventeen minutes left on the clock a...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: Pakistan's Forfeit Against Israel and the Cost Beyond the ScoreboardThe clock never started. That is the detail I keep longest when reading the...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh to Play on Board 4 for India; Humpy Leads Women's TeamWhen India's squad for the Chess Olympiad was announced, the name on board 4...
Samarkand 2026: Defending Champions India Left Without Hotel Rooms Before Round OneThe plane carrying the Indian chess team landed in Samarkand, Uzbekistan....
ChessBase Reviews Its Own Products in August: The Content Machine and the Question of Real Value in the Chess Training MarketIn ChessBase's August release list, among titles on calculation,...
The Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: The Promise of a King's Indian Repertoire Without MemorisationThe clock on the wall reads 0:47. On the wooden board in front of me sits the...
Samarkand 2026: When a Hotel Room Becomes the Most Dangerous Move Before Round OneThere is a number that kept me at my screen near midnight: five hours. That i...
Petroff Defence Update as Skills Dominate ChessBase's August 2026 CatalogueIn the August 2026 catalogue of new products released by ChessBase, amid a ru...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, Central Asia and the Unverified NumbersOn September 16, 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, when the first chess clock o...
Samarkand, Sindarov and the Titles That Need VerificationThe press room in New Delhi went silent for exactly half a breath before the...
Behind the Elo Board: Vietnamese Chess and the Data Question After the Gukesh EraI watched the final game of the 2026 world chess championship in Singapore on...
ChessBase's August Release: The Petroff, Two Positional Courses, and the Limits of a CatalogueUnveiling speed, I meet a whole generation on the run — and this time they ru...
The Samarkand Torch: Three Names That Should Have Been Verified Before the Flame Was PassedThe flame has changed hands. In Samarkand, where blue ceramic domes have kept...
Samarkand 2026: India and the Chessboard of a Generation in TransitionI remember that evening in Budapest, when the electronic scoreboard of the 20...
When a Forty-Page Analysis Holds Not One Single FactOn a late-October morning, I opened a forty-page file about a chess tournamen...
