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77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections and One Missing Scoresheet: The Real Story of FIDE's First Continental Prison Chess Championship2026-10-25Hook On the morning of 13 May 2026, the first thing that confronted me about...
Scandinavian Defense: Is the '60-Minute Promise' Really Enough for Club Players?2026-10-24What I found in the Jurong West press box was not silence but arithmetic. In...
Capablanca 2026 in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: When the Header Betrayed the Record2026-10-26The first clue was a headline nobody thought to cross-check. It read: “A...
The Clutch Chess Board and Lilov's Course: When a Headline Borrowed Another Event's Face2026-10-26It was eleven at night and fourteen tabs sat open on my laptop. The fifteenth...
IM at Eleven Years Seven Months: The Record, the Norm, and the Machine That Counts2026-10-25IM at Eleven Years Seven Months: The Record, the Norm, and the Machine That...
Capablanca 2026 in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: When the Header Betrayed the RecordThe first clue was a headline nobody thought to cross-check. It read: “A...
The Clutch Chess Board and Lilov's Course: When a Headline Borrowed Another Event's FaceIt was eleven at night and fourteen tabs sat open on my laptop. The fifteenth...
IM at Eleven Years Seven Months: The Record, the Norm, and the Machine That CountsIM at Eleven Years Seven Months: The Record, the Norm, and the Machine That...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections and One Missing Scoresheet: The Real Story of FIDE's First Continental Prison Chess ChampionshipHook On the morning of 13 May 2026, the first thing that confronted me about...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the New Arithmetic of Opening RepertoiresThe download opens and I finish the count before I read a single sentence:...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: An International Master on Board One, and the Silence Nobody Bothers to MeasureThe evening of 23 October 2026. Board one. Across the table sat Viktoria...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Undated Recommendation: Auditing the Najdorf Repertoire UpdateSixty minutes. Five line clusters. English. One download, no updates after...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and Not One Word About the Price: The Najdorf DVD and the Ledger Nobody Says Out LoudSixty minutes. Five lines. And not one word about the price. I wrote that...
The Sixty-Minute Receipt on the Najdorf: What Daniel King's Update Pack Teaches, and What It Doesn'tI did the arithmetic before I read the review. Minutes first, then lines, the...
Scandinavian Defense: Is the '60-Minute Promise' Really Enough for Club Players?What I found in the Jurong West press box was not silence but arithmetic. In...