Chess
Prague Chess Festival: Is Chess's Real Strength Hidden in Cafés?
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak: A Fourth US Chess Championship and the Ledger of Four Dates
77 Teams, Three Sections, Zero Ratings: What FIDE's Prison Chess Championship Actually Proves
A Najdorf Update, Reviewed: Five Lines, Sixty Minutes, and a Missing Date
Prague Chess Festival: Is Chess's Real Strength Hidden in Cafés?Think of a round at the Prague Chess Festival 2026, where a young Indian...
77 Teams, Three Sections, Zero Ratings: What FIDE's Prison Chess Championship Actually Proves77 teams. Five continents. Three sections — Open, Women's, Youth. Eleven days...
A Najdorf Update, Reviewed: Five Lines, Sixty Minutes, and a Missing DateI went looking for the review and found the empty byline first. In a club gro...
Prague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine #225: Where the Shortest Game Became the Biggest StoryOn the first floor of Prague's Hotel Olympik that afternoon, the loudest soun...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections: In the Prisoners' Chess Championship the Contest Was on the Board, the Verdict Was Off ItLast week, at my desk in Moscow, I opened a scoresheet. The date read 13 May...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Prison Chess Championship Nobody AuditedOn the morning of 13 May 2026 I got stuck on a FIDE press release. 77 teams....
Daniel King’s Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Lines, and a Claim Nobody Can Verify“Sir, I had bought the update.” That was the sentence I heard last month at a...
Rachel Li's Title and Andrew Martin's Scandinavian: One Chess Report, Two Different StoriesA Headline at 2 A.M., and the Body That Never Arrived It was seventeen minute...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak: A Fourth US Chess Championship and the Ledger of Four DatesAt the Saint Louis Chess Club, when the last tiebreak game ended, the...
The Scandinavian Defence and the 60-Minute Promise: One Video, One Carlsen Name, and a Headline That Belonged to Another MatchAt 1 a.m., the board was a phone screen and a prayer. Sunday rapid had finish...
A NATO Headline, a 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Auditing a Metadata FailureI opened the file expecting a scorecard. The headline was unambiguous — Vahap...
ChessBase Magazine #225: What's Being Sold Isn't Opening Theory, It's a Player's Own ReckoningThe first thing that snags on the September release page is the arithmetic: 2...