Chess
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Update: Where Najdorf Preparation Is Bought, and Where It Falls
Wesley So's Fourth US Crown: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, but the Scoreboard Hid Half the Story
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Is on the Record, the Score Is Not
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Tiebreaks, the Clock, and a Report Where 89% of the Payload Was Not Chess
A Wrong FIDE President on the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advertisement Underneath: Inside the Factory That Makes Chess News
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Update: Where Najdorf Preparation Is Bought, and Where It FallsTuesday evening, in a rented hall off the lane behind Deccan Gymkhana in Pune...
Wesley So's Fourth US Crown: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, but the Scoreboard Hid Half the StoryThe result came out of St. Louis and I read the paragraph three times. It had...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess ChampionshipIn St. Louis the boards were being reset for the tiebreak. There were no chee...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Is on the Record, the Score Is NotI opened the file and the headline was clean: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana ...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Tiebreaks, the Clock, and a Report Where 89% of the Payload Was Not ChessI read the report twice. Once for the headline, once for the count. The...
The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Borrowed Halo, and a Headline That Belonged to Another StoryOn Monday morning a listing page sat open on my screen. Sixty minutes of...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds as SuperChess Meet Bayegan PendikAfter three rounds of the European Club Cup 2026, the photograph that travell...
A Club Cup Headline, a Scotch Advertisement, and the Crosstable That Isn't ThereThe body contains exactly two dates: 2026, and "twenty-five years before this...
A Wrong FIDE President on the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advertisement Underneath: Inside the Factory That Makes Chess NewsAt six-forty in the morning in Chennai, the tea on my desk had gone cold and...
Carlsen Says Humans Aren't That Good at Chess. The Real News Is How He Prepares Now.One line from the Marca interview published on 21 October (original source: A...
The Ledger at Budva: 108 Teams at the European Club Cup, and Only One Above 2700Three numbers sit at the top of the Budva entry list, and none of them speaks...
The FIDE President Changed in the Headline; the Body Was Selling FRITZ 20At half past seven one morning a link arrived on WhatsApp, forwarded by a sta...
The Headline Was Clean, the Footnote Was Not: A Najdorf Update Filed Under a NATO ResultThe headline carried a Turkish team and a NATO Chess Championship win. The bo...
Novy Bor and SuperChess Are 'Perfect' — and the Page Is Holding Two Different DocumentsThe first line of the European Club Cup report was clean: Novy Bor and...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and a Claim With No Date On ItThere was a number in the September release list — twenty-seven. Twenty-seven...