Chess
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: What Remains After Two NamesIn the moment the electronic clock of the final game stopped, there was a...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, Breaks a 38-Year Record: Women's Chess Pays the Price for a Question Nobody Wants to AnswerOn October 23, in the final round of the European Chess Club Cup in Budva,...
Carlsen: 'AI shows humans are not that good' – When the Five-Time World Champion Remeasures His Own LimitsAt around 35 years old, Magnus Carlsen sat down for an interview with AS on...
Carlsen, AI and a 20-fold gap: when the rating throne and the title throne no longer share an ownerOne sentence, read seven times 21:40 on 21 October. The AS interview went liv...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Patch, and a Headline That Belongs to Another StoryOn the same page, the headline states that Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye won t...
FIDE, Timur Turlov and the Verification Problem: When Headlines Mislead Chess FansHave you ever opened a chess article, read a headline about a national-level...
IM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense: An Overpromise and a Headline That Contradicts Its BodyThe game ended on move 31, and what made me remember it was not the losing...
Scandinavian in 60 Minutes: The Marketing Promise and the Rest of the BoardThe game at board seven of an open tournament in Hanoi in late June ended wit...
5 e5! in the Modern Italian: a forcing move packaged into 60 minutesThe wooden pieces come down on the board dry and neat. No stands, no big cloc...
Game of the Week Episode 743: Fourteen Years Keeping the Rhythm of Chess Analysis Every Wednesday EveningWednesday evening. Amsterdam. Rain on the canal. In a small studio, a...
World Chess: Misinformation About the FIDE President and a Controversial King's Indian Defense DVDA chess news item is circulating with a headline claiming that Kazakh Preside...
ChessBase Magazine #225: From Dusk till Dawn and the Training-Content RaceI opened a parcel from Germany that arrived in Da Nang on a September morning...
Is Chess Really 'Least Expressive'? A Data File on the Watchability of the Mind SportOn December 12, 2026, in Singapore, the fourteenth game of the world chess...
The Data Void of Vietnamese Chess: The Games Nobody RecordedIn Khanty-Mansiysk, in June 2026, Le Quang Liem became world blitz chess...
The Blank Column in Chess and the Trap of Machine-Age Sports AnalysisLate at night in Chengdu, I reopened the data file of a chess tournament that...

