Chess
Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and Questions About the Future
Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon and a Trust Fracture in a 60-Minute Opening Product
The 5 e5! thrust between two titles: when a 60-minute opening course tells two stories
King's Indian, Bayonet and 9...a5: A Real Move, An Unreal Sales Pitch
FIDE General Assembly Debates Shorter Time Controls: The 'Economy' Opening Wave and the Scandinavian Defense
Scandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute System Behind Magnus Carlsen's Name
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: What Daniel King Sells When Opening Theory Expires Every Two YearsSaturday morning, second floor of a small chess club on Nguyen Van Linh Stree...
Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and Questions About the FutureWhen I look at the data sheet of this tournament, the first number that stops...
Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon and a Trust Fracture in a 60-Minute Opening ProductA 60-minute opening video presented by Andrew Martin is being promoted as a...
The Najdorf Move and the Format War: When Players Must Choose Between Old DVDs and New PlatformsOn a weekend evening, I sat in my small apartment in Bangalore, a worn notebo...
The 5 e5! thrust between two titles: when a 60-minute opening course tells two storiesAt seven on a Wednesday evening, I opened a video file exactly sixty minutes...
The Fifth-Move Pawn to e5: Why a Sharp Modern Italian Lives One Tier Below the EliteA small club on Nguyen Chi Thanh street in Da Nang, around nine in the evenin...
King's Indian, Bayonet and 9...a5: A Real Move, An Unreal Sales PitchTable four, a chess club room in Delhi, a Saturday afternoon. The player with...
9...a5 and the Queenside Gap: An Old Move Repackaged in the King's IndianOn the ninth move of a King's Indian game, I usually pause longer than anyone...
FIDE General Assembly Debates Shorter Time Controls: The 'Economy' Opening Wave and the Scandinavian DefenseMoscow, late autumn. The first snow has whitened the rooftops outside the sma...
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 — When a Move Against Common Sense Walks into the Bundesliga1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!? — those three symbols, placed side by side on a chess...
Scandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute System Behind Magnus Carlsen's NameIn a video exactly 60 minutes long, an English International Master places a...
Scandinavian Defense: A Simple, Solid Chess System for Every Club PlayerIn the world of chess, building an opening system that is both effective and...
Chess Bundesliga: Viernheim and Baden-Baden Lead as the Najdorf Enters a New Update CycleThe opening rounds of the German Chess Bundesliga have closed with SC Viernhe...
Perfect Scores and the Unwatched Moves at the US Chess ChampionshipAt the ongoing US Chess Championship, Wesley So and Awonder Liang both hold...
Wesley So, Awonder Liang and the Opening Battleground Behind Perfect ScoresRound four of the US Chess Championship closed with a scoreboard that made an...
1.d4 d5 and the Seven-System Problem: When White Avoids Theory, Black Needs a PlanI remember a game at an open tournament in Mumbai. After my 1.d4, my White...
An 11-Year-Old, the 3.Bc4 Move, and the Lesson of a 2504 Performance in SamarkandAutumn in Samarkand, the sky so clear one could see the distant mountains...
Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, 6/7 and a 2504 Performance: The 3.Bc4 Move Is More Than an OddityFrom the sideline, I see the whole game. On September 24, 2026, in Samarkand,...
