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European Club Cup: A 2715 Average and the Half-Board-Point Margin2026-10-22Open the cross-table the moment round two ends. In a field of 108 open teams,...
The 1...d5 Shop: Scandinavian Defense, an Uncited Carlsen, and the Interview That Fell Off the Page2026-10-22Last week a student of mine at a Moscow club slid his phone across the table....
Scandinavian Defense: Carlsen-Approved Chess in 60 Minutes? A Cold Reading of a Product Page2026-10-22A fifty-rupee copy, a clock, and a sixty-minute video. All three share one...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and One Comfortable Win: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #2252026-10-22The cover says it plainly: "European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the...
Carlsen's Gamble: When Chess's Biggest Name Announces His Own SlowdownJust days before the first edition of the World Open Chess Championship begin...
I Opened the 'Endgame Magic #340' Tape: The Headline Sells a Name, the Body Sells a RepertoireLast week I opened the tape on "Endgame Magic #340." Three things in the titl...
Carlsen's Twenty Million Dollar Question: Why the Chess Crown Now Looks Smaller Than Its PriceOn October 21, Madrid sports daily AS published a long interview with Magnus...
A Chess Governance Headline With an Ad Inside: The FIDE Presidency Claim Arrives Without Source, Date or AgendaStart with the sentence that collides with any chess reporter's instinct. A...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average and the Half-Board-Point MarginOpen the cross-table the moment round two ends. In a field of 108 open teams,...
The Italian Game's 5.e5 Line: A Trap for Club Players, and a Weakness TooIn a hotel conference room off Park Street, at my first live commentary debut...
Scandinavian Defense: Carlsen-Approved Opening in 60 Minutes? Here's the TruthMagnus Carlsen's name is a brand in the chess world. When someone says 'Carls...
The 1...d5 Shop: Scandinavian Defense, an Uncited Carlsen, and the Interview That Fell Off the PageLast week a student of mine at a Moscow club slid his phone across the table....
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average and a 3.5 Threshold — the Favourite's Real Ledger Sits on Boards 4 to 6Twenty-five teams sat on 2/2 after round two. The number was clean, so I went...
Scandinavian Defense: Carlsen-Approved Chess in 60 Minutes? A Cold Reading of a Product PageA fifty-rupee copy, a clock, and a sixty-minute video. All three share one...
The Scandinavian Defense, Sixty Minutes, and an Uncited Carlsen ClaimHook Last week I opened a chess product page. The headline read: "From quitti...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and One Comfortable Win: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225The cover says it plainly: "European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the...
Under the Budva Headline, Someone Is Selling 2...d5: The European Club Cup and the Elephant Gambit on One PageLate one night in Saint Petersburg, two things sat open on the same screen in...
A 60-Minute Video on the Scandinavian Defense: IM Andrew Martin’s Claim and Its LimitsAt 2:07 a.m. in a Mumbai studio flat, I saw three things on a phone screen at...
Benko Gambit Repertoire and Fritz 20: When a Chess Review Loses Its Own IdentityA Bangalore evening, two monitors, and a scanner. I was mapping pawn breaks...