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The Budva Ledger: A 2715 Average, 108 Teams, and a Sum Left Unfinished
ChessBase Magazine #225: World-Class Training Promise, Lacking Independent Verification
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026 Annotations, 27 Miniatures and a Fresh Opening Repertoire
Nakamura in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: What That Clutch Chess Report Actually Contains
The Headline Rewrote the FIDE President; the Body Sold FRITZ 20
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026 Annotations, 27 Miniatures and a Fresh Opening RepertoireChessBase has unveiled its September release slate, and at its centre sits...
Nakamura in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: What That Clutch Chess Report Actually Contains1:40 a.m., Mumbai. I opened a folder of seven aggregated chess items for a...
The Headline Rewrote the FIDE President; the Body Sold FRITZ 20Two in the morning in Dublin, and a link forwarded from a Dhaka chess group...
The Budva Ledger: A 2715 Average, 108 Teams, and a Sum Left UnfinishedOn 19 October, in Budva. On the Adriatic coast of Montenegro, a list hangs in...
The Sixty-Minute Gambit: A Budva Headline, Martin's Repertoire, and a Missing MoveThe headline said Budva. Montenegro. The European Club Cup begins. Below it s...
The Analysis That Came Back Empty: Paltan's Silent Heartbeat and the Invisible Injury of Bangladesh ChessAll around me lie the tables of analysis. Eight pillars — technique, players,...
Kavutskiy's Calculation and Positional Play: ChessBase's New Courses and the Silent Load of the Chess-Training EconomyTwo in the morning in a Boston apartment. An open notebook on the desk, an ol...
3.Bc4, an 11-Year-Old on Board One, and Samarkand's Unfinished ArithmeticOn the Samarkand Olympiad team sheet, the name that creates the most discomfo...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: A Wrong Headline in the Chess-Knowledge Market and Bangladesh's Empty SquareIn the early hours of a February 2026 morning, the tea was going cold in my...
The Promise of Move Nine: A King's Indian DVD, 9...a5, and the Quiet Flaw in the Anti-Memorization MarketThe screen is paused on 9.b4. I paused it myself. The file was labelled...
Savitha Shri and the Three-Year Arithmetic: The Economics Hidden Behind an Olympiad Hero StoryOn that Thursday in Samarkand I sat at my desk watching the clock, not the...
Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian, Carlsen's Name, and the Club Player's Money1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 — four moves, set side by side, produce a pictu...
ChessBase Magazine #225: World-Class Training Promise, Lacking Independent VerificationLet me begin with the gap between a headline and the news inside it. The titl...
The Sword of Damocles and the Unclosed Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense and Magnus Carlsen's Missing GameThe Sword of Damocles and the Unclosed Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the...
Training Material Is Now Chess's Real Currency: ChessBase Magazine 225 and Our Dried-Out CupboardOn a 2026 afternoon, when I opened the steel cupboard in the Bangladesh Chess...
Seven Wins in Samarkand, and a Family's Savings Gone in Under Three YearsThursday night, Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop on the bedroom table, a cup o...
Nakamura in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: What That Clutch Chess Report Actually Contains1:40 a.m., Mumbai. I opened a folder of seven aggregated chess items for a...
The Headline Rewrote the FIDE President; the Body Sold FRITZ 20Two in the morning in Dublin, and a link forwarded from a Dhaka chess group...
The Budva Ledger: A 2715 Average, 108 Teams, and a Sum Left UnfinishedOn 19 October, in Budva. On the Adriatic coast of Montenegro, a list hangs in...
The Sixty-Minute Gambit: A Budva Headline, Martin's Repertoire, and a Missing MoveThe headline said Budva. Montenegro. The European Club Cup begins. Below it s...
The Analysis That Came Back Empty: Paltan's Silent Heartbeat and the Invisible Injury of Bangladesh ChessAll around me lie the tables of analysis. Eight pillars — technique, players,...
Kavutskiy's Calculation and Positional Play: ChessBase's New Courses and the Silent Load of the Chess-Training EconomyTwo in the morning in a Boston apartment. An open notebook on the desk, an ol...
3.Bc4, an 11-Year-Old on Board One, and Samarkand's Unfinished ArithmeticOn the Samarkand Olympiad team sheet, the name that creates the most discomfo...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: A Wrong Headline in the Chess-Knowledge Market and Bangladesh's Empty SquareIn the early hours of a February 2026 morning, the tea was going cold in my...
The Promise of Move Nine: A King's Indian DVD, 9...a5, and the Quiet Flaw in the Anti-Memorization MarketThe screen is paused on 9.b4. I paused it myself. The file was labelled...
Savitha Shri and the Three-Year Arithmetic: The Economics Hidden Behind an Olympiad Hero StoryOn that Thursday in Samarkand I sat at my desk watching the clock, not the...
Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian, Carlsen's Name, and the Club Player's Money1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 — four moves, set side by side, produce a pictu...
ChessBase Magazine #225: World-Class Training Promise, Lacking Independent VerificationLet me begin with the gap between a headline and the news inside it. The titl...
The Sword of Damocles and the Unclosed Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense and Magnus Carlsen's Missing GameThe Sword of Damocles and the Unclosed Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the...
Training Material Is Now Chess's Real Currency: ChessBase Magazine 225 and Our Dried-Out CupboardOn a 2026 afternoon, when I opened the steel cupboard in the Bangladesh Chess...
Seven Wins in Samarkand, and a Family's Savings Gone in Under Three YearsThursday night, Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop on the bedroom table, a cup o...