Chess
What Lies Behind the Promotion Titled Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026
Yu Yangyi Beat Ding Liren in Shenzhen — But Where Is the Scoreline?
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Naming Glitch: The Prison Chess Ledger That Doesn't Balance Yet
From Benko Gambit to Blockchain: The Commercial Transformation of Chess Knowledge
The Headline Says School Champions, the Body Sells a DVD: Chess Journalism's Fracture and the King's Indian Commerce
ChessBase Magazine #225 Under the Blockchain Test: A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board, and the Missing Data
One Course, Two Openings: The Ledger Gap in Chess Instruction MarketingAt half past eleven on a Bengaluru night I opened a catalogue page to read th...
What Lies Behind the Promotion Titled Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026A chess headline can sometimes become the strongest move in the entire...
Chigorin in the Title, Italian in the Body: The Rift Inside a Chess Repertoire ProductIn the world of chess publishing, short-form opening videos have become a...
Yu Yangyi Beat Ding Liren in Shenzhen — But Where Is the Scoreline?A magazine product page. An issue number sits at the top — 225. Below it, a...
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Naming Glitch: The Prison Chess Ledger That Doesn't Balance YetOn May 13, 2026, I opened a spreadsheet in my Mumbai flat with three columns:...
Trying to Shed the Memory Load: 9...a5 in the Mar del Plata and the Club Player's FatigueApril 2026. The Premier Division Chess League is running in the hall at Puran...
From Benko Gambit to Blockchain: The Commercial Transformation of Chess KnowledgeI was staring at a board on a PC screen where the only claim to black's...
5.e5: The Ledger of a Club Weapon in Sveshnikov's Shadow5.e5: The Ledger of a Club Weapon in Sveshnikov's Shadow The clock was a few...
A Bent Larsen Headline With No Larsen Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Opening-Theory Market, and a Ledger of BudgetsHook: Zero Out of Fourteen A confession first, because the central number in...
Vietnam's Group B Gold: Depth Without Three Grandmasters, and the Trap in the HeadlineI had the Group B standings open in my Mymensingh room and three numbers in m...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, and the Disguise of a HeadlineAt three in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom, I did not switch off the...
A Crown in Tsaghkadzor, a King's Indian on the Page: The News Item That Was Actually a DVD AdTsaghkadzor. The name of that small Armenian hill town sat in the headline —...
The Headline Says School Champions, the Body Sells a DVD: Chess Journalism's Fracture and the King's Indian CommerceThe steel cupboard in the federation building at Purana Paltan still creaks a...
The Scandinavian Trap: A One-Hour Promise, Carlsen's Name, and the Club Player's Unfinished LedgerLast December I was sitting at the next board during the seventh round of a...