Chess
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: Two Champions in the Headline, Not a Single Move in the Body
At 11 Years, 7 Months and 16 Days: Bodhana Sivanandan Breaks Judit Polgar's 38-Year-Old IM Record
Perfect Scores at the US Championships and a 1.d4 d5 Defensive Repertoire: Two Signals, One Reading
The Bayonet Attack and the 9...a5 'antidote': where real strategy ends and the sales pitch begins
Inside ChessBase Magazine #225: from the Bent Larsen cover to the Prague 2026 data
ChessBase Magazine #225 Released October 8: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and an Unverified Claim
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: Two Champions in the Headline, Not a Single Move in the BodyI counted four absences in a single sports news item: no venue, no date, no...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo: When the 2026 European Club Cup Title Gets Left Behind on a Promotional PageOn a late weekend evening, I reopened an old ChessBase newsletter and found a...
At 11 Years, 7 Months and 16 Days: Bodhana Sivanandan Breaks Judit Polgar's 38-Year-Old IM RecordOn move 32, Bodhana Sivanandan pushed a minor piece toward the kingside and...
European Club Cup Before the Final Round: Three Co-Leaders and a Standings Table That Cannot Yet Be RebuiltThe European Club Cup goes into its final round with a three-way tie at the t...
European Club Cup 2026: The Title Will Be Decided on Boards 3-4, While the Standings Refuse to CloseBoard one of SuperChess versus Bayegan Pendik in round four of the European...
Daniel King Patches His Najdorf in 60 Minutes: What the Update Says About How We Learn OpeningsAt 11:47 p.m., the coffee shop at the end of Nguyen Van Linh Street had alrea...
When Chess News Is Sold With a False FIDE Presidency HeadlineOn 30 August 2026, in a Russian-language chess Telegram group I have followed...
Daniel King and the 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: Chess Instruction Now Sells Expiry Dates, Not KnowledgeLate October, and Saint Petersburg loses the light before four in the...
US Chess Championship: Wesley So and Awonder Liang Are Perfect, and the Trap of a Small SampleWesley So and Awonder Liang entered the next round of the US Chess Championsh...
Perfect Scores at the US Championships and a 1.d4 d5 Defensive Repertoire: Two Signals, One ReadingIn chess, a question that looks simple trips up many fans: when two players...
The strange comforts of superstition in chessOn a July evening, in a small chess club on Lach Tray Street, I sat behind a...
The Abandoned Second Move: When White Turns Away from 2.c4In the VTC commentary booth, there is a moment I remember vividly. The game...
UzChess Cup: Brandon Jacobson's Seventh Move and the Sleeping Theory of Opening PreparationI sat in a small apartment in Shanghai, a dim desk lamp beside me, and played...
The Bayonet Attack and the 9...a5 'antidote': where real strategy ends and the sales pitch beginsOn a quiet evening in Nha Trang, I set up the position after White's ninth mo...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo: When the 2026 European Club Cup Title Gets Left Behind on a Promotional PageOn a late weekend evening, I reopened an old ChessBase newsletter and found a...
At 11 Years, 7 Months and 16 Days: Bodhana Sivanandan Breaks Judit Polgar's 38-Year-Old IM RecordOn move 32, Bodhana Sivanandan pushed a minor piece toward the kingside and...
European Club Cup Before the Final Round: Three Co-Leaders and a Standings Table That Cannot Yet Be RebuiltThe European Club Cup goes into its final round with a three-way tie at the t...
European Club Cup 2026: The Title Will Be Decided on Boards 3-4, While the Standings Refuse to CloseBoard one of SuperChess versus Bayegan Pendik in round four of the European...
Daniel King Patches His Najdorf in 60 Minutes: What the Update Says About How We Learn OpeningsAt 11:47 p.m., the coffee shop at the end of Nguyen Van Linh Street had alrea...
When Chess News Is Sold With a False FIDE Presidency HeadlineOn 30 August 2026, in a Russian-language chess Telegram group I have followed...
Daniel King and the 60-Minute Najdorf Patch: Chess Instruction Now Sells Expiry Dates, Not KnowledgeLate October, and Saint Petersburg loses the light before four in the...
US Chess Championship: Wesley So and Awonder Liang Are Perfect, and the Trap of a Small SampleWesley So and Awonder Liang entered the next round of the US Chess Championsh...
Perfect Scores at the US Championships and a 1.d4 d5 Defensive Repertoire: Two Signals, One ReadingIn chess, a question that looks simple trips up many fans: when two players...
The strange comforts of superstition in chessOn a July evening, in a small chess club on Lach Tray Street, I sat behind a...
The Abandoned Second Move: When White Turns Away from 2.c4In the VTC commentary booth, there is a moment I remember vividly. The game...
UzChess Cup: Brandon Jacobson's Seventh Move and the Sleeping Theory of Opening PreparationI sat in a small apartment in Shanghai, a dim desk lamp beside me, and played...
The Bayonet Attack and the 9...a5 'antidote': where real strategy ends and the sales pitch beginsOn a quiet evening in Nha Trang, I set up the position after White's ninth mo...
