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Prague's Date Stamp: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Chess's Shortest Stories
CBM #225 and Prague 2026: How Chess Opening Repertoires Change Hands
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level in the Open, but the Match Will Be Decided on Boards Three and Four
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague 2026, and a Magazine as Ledger: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225
A 2465 Performance and a Date That Will Not Sit Still: Vietnam's 11-Year-Old IM Claim and Its Pending Audit
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a File With Not One Name In It
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague 2026, and a Magazine as Ledger: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225Before opening any new chess publication I do one thing: I count the games,...
A 2465 Performance and a Date That Will Not Sit Still: Vietnam's 11-Year-Old IM Claim and Its Pending AuditA 2465 Performance and a Date That Will Not Sit Still: Vietnam's 11-Year-Old ...
Prague's Date Stamp: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Chess's Shortest StoriesIt was two in the morning in Moscow. In my small studio near Belorusskaya the...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a File With Not One Name In ItOn 13 May 2026 the number arrived clean: 77 teams, five continents, three...
The Najdorf Patch: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and a Missing DateThe Najdorf Patch: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and a Missing Date Hook Board...
The Part of Prague 2026 the Live Stream Couldn't Show: ChessBase Magazine #225Twenty-seven. The number arrives before anything else does. ChessBase...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Reviewing Daniel King's FritzTrainer UpdateSixty minutes. Five line clusters. The arithmetic is so simple it feels rude ...
Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters and a Missing Date: Auditing the Najdorf UpdateA sixty-minute video download. Five line clusters. And not a single publicati...
CBM #225 and Prague 2026: How Chess Opening Repertoires Change HandsChessBase Magazine issue 225 does not open with a story. It opens with an...
Prague Chess Festival 2026: 27 Miniatures, One Baseline, and the Silence That WinsThe fastest move in the Prague tournament hall was not the one the spectators...
Wesley So beats Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks for fourth US Chess Championship: A win born from theory avoidanceThe tiebreak board had barely cleared before Wesley So's fourth U.S....
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Five Lines, One Update, and the Rising Rent on Opening TheoryOn the third board of a club tournament in Ahmedabad last month, what happene...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level in the Open, but the Match Will Be Decided on Boards Three and FourEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level in the Open, but the Match Will Be...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit, Under a Najdorf HeadlineSixty minutes. For a chess course that is not a large number — the first reel...
The Rachel Li Headline and the Scandinavian File: An Audit of a Broken RecordThe file landed on my desk at eleven in the morning. The headline was one lin...
A US Women's Championship Headline, a Scandinavian Defense Body: One Document, Two StoriesThe document reached my desk on a Thursday morning. The headline carried a...