Chess
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 average and the 115-point gap per boardBudva, round three. The European Club Cup standings show 25 teams level on 2/...
European Club Cup 2026 in Budva: Bayegan Pendik at 2715 Elo, a 65-Point Gap per Board, and the Limits of a Title That Was BoughtThree in the afternoon on the third playing day in Budva, the pairings sheet...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik lead with a 2715 average EloBudva, round three. The board hanging in the venue corridor reads 25 teams...
Total Chess and the Missing Body of a Unified Rating SystemBudapest, November 2026. Four names are announced: Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano...
The Hour of the Seconds: When a Small Move Attacks the Opponent's PreparationThere is a small piece of data I keep in my tracking book across seasons: in...
Benko Gambit, GM Sipke Ernst and a FRITZ 20 Body Text: Anatomy of a Content-Assembly Failure in Chess PublishingI opened that article late one night in Nha Trang, after going through a club...
Decoding the Elephant Gambit: When a Second-Move Pawn Sacrifice Becomes a Psychological WeaponThere is one position I spent six weeks rewinding old match footage to study ...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: the promise of no memorisation, and its priceThe fourth game of a Saturday evening, at a chess café on Nguyễn Du street:...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Mar del Plata: an opening repertoire selling 'less theory' against the BayonetIn a tournament hall in Shanghai, the game reached move nine. White pushed a...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Humble Move and the Lesson of Reading a Chess AdvertisementA small chess cafe on Lo Duc Street in Hanoi, an October night. The tea had...
63 Checking Moves and a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: When a Machine Sat Down to Show Its ProofIn 2026, I turned seven. In Nha Trang back then, chess was not a sport with a...
63 Checking Moves and a 58-Year Gap: When AI Learned to Count Human Chess MovesI sat in front of the screen, a cup of coffee gone cold in my hand, watching...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners Kicks Off with Record 140 TeamsAt sixty-nine, I have sat before a chessboard long enough to know that a sing...
The Elephant Gambit in the Bundesliga: A 60-Minute Promise and a Gap Named DataThat night, I rewatched a Bundesliga game with the sound turned off entirely....
Yu Yangyi Beats Ding Liren in Shenzhen: A Big Result Lodged Inside a Promotional PageIn the news feed I opened close to midnight, a blank box caught my eye before...
Sicilian Najdorf: When Theory Never Stops Moving, the 60-Minute Update and Lessons from Daniel KingIn a game from round 5 of the 2026-2026 German Chess Bundesliga, a young Germ...

