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Clutch Chess Saint Louis: Four Grandmasters in the Headline, a Video Course in the Body
Chess Behind Bars: 77 Teams, Five Continents and the Gaps Nobody Has Measured
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and the Limits of a Generalist Training Package
Magnus Carlsen, AI, and the twentyfold gap between a chess crown and what the market pays for it
When AI Levels the Field: Carlsen Learns to Win Faster at 35
Clutch Chess Saint Louis: Four Grandmasters in the Headline, a Video Course in the BodyAt the board in Saint Louis, four names carried the headline: Fabiano Caruana...
Chess Behind Bars: 77 Teams, Five Continents and the Gaps Nobody Has MeasuredIn a room with no mobile phones, no personal computers, only a large screen...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and the Limits of a Generalist Training PackageThe tournament game in Prague ended in early March, in a hall where spectator...
Magnus Carlsen, AI, and the twentyfold gap between a chess crown and what the market pays for itOn the night of 21 October I replayed an old game with the commentary muted....
When AI Levels the Field: Carlsen Learns to Win Faster at 35Magnus Carlsen was asked a question that sounded simple: has the computer mad...
Sixty Minutes to Patch the Najdorf: Daniel King and the Discipline of Opening MaintenanceThe dispatch landed on my desk under a loud headline: Vahap Sanal and Team...
FIDE Has No President Named Turlov: A False Headline and a FRITZ 20 Promo That Slipped Through Every CheckOn August 29, a reader in Almaty sent me a link with a single line: “Take a...
Label one way, content another: the 5 e5! line and the limits of memorized opening playSaturday night, board four of a chess cafe on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da...
The Move of the Hope Seller: When a 'Review' Leaves Nothing But the PitchThe page opened on an article titled after Grandmaster Sipke Ernst's Benko...
Dortmund 2027 and the Scandinavian Course: A Content Error in the Digital Chess MarketA chess product page opens with the line Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027. A...
Dortmund 2027, a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course, and the Credibility Test on a Chess Product PageAt 9:40 p.m., in a small club room in Jing'an, Shanghai, a 38-year-old...
The Scandinavian Defense: When Digital Chess Sells Study TimeThe headline appeared on my screen like a signboard bolted in the wrong place...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: A Chess Headline That Never Reaches the BoardOn a Tuesday evening I sat in my Da Nang apartment, the desk lamp yellow, the...
The Elephant Gambit, Caruana, and the Gap Between a Headline and Its ArticleI opened a familiar sports page one morning in Saint Petersburg. The headline...
US Championships: Woodward takes down Caruana, Lee widens the gapA result line scrolls across the screen: Woodward beats Caruana. On another...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall Early, and a Magazine That Tells Its Own StoryIn Atyrau, an oil city leaning against the banks of the Ural River in western...