Chess
Empty Boards in Samarkand: Pakistan Boycotts Israel Match at the 2026 Chess Olympiad
India Bring the Double to Samarkand: Decoding the 11-Round Swiss Format of the Largest Chess Olympiad in History
Pakistan forfeits the Israel match at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: a move made off the board
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, Gukesh and the Test of Unverified Numbers
The 9...a5 Move and the Bayonet Night: When Chess Theory Chooses Silence
Empty Boards in Samarkand: Pakistan Boycotts Israel Match at the 2026 Chess OlympiadThe clocks on four boards were never started. On the morning of September 15,...
India Bring the Double to Samarkand: Decoding the 11-Round Swiss Format of the Largest Chess Olympiad in HistorySamarkand once served as a weighing station on the Silk Road, where caravans...
Pakistan forfeits the Israel match at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: a move made off the boardSamarkand, an empty board On 15 September 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, Gukesh and the Test of Unverified NumbersOn the second day of play at the Budapest 2026 Chess Olympiad, I sat in a sma...
The 9...a5 Move and the Bayonet Night: When Chess Theory Chooses SilenceEvery stadium I have walked through holds a secret door, and the entrance is...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads India's Women's Team — and the Hidden Logic of Board OrderIn team chess events, there is a moment almost no one watches: when the paper...
Knight Magic and the 5.e5 Move: A Sharp Weapon Built on an Empty Data FoundationThe move 5.e5 appears on the board, and the whole club buzzes. A product name...
The Petroff Defence and Two Positional-Play Courses: Signals of a Shift in the Chess Training MarketOn 13 September 2026, ChessBase published a roundup titled 'All new releases ...
Empty Rooms in Samarkand, Empty Form at Board One: India's Two Burdens at the 2026 OlympiadSamarkand, around 3 p.m. local time. The Indian chess team's plane had just...
The Samarkand Torch: Chess Olympiad 2026 Begins, and Three Claims Worth VerifyingIn the final frame of a short clip released by the All India Chess Federation...
August's Petroff Update and the Chess Training-Content Market5:40 in Da Nang A small coffee shop on Nguyen Van Linh Street opens at five. ...
ChessBase August 2026: The Petroff Update and a Theory GapFrom the sideline, I see the whole game. On August 13, 2026, in a lull betwee...
ChessBase and its August 2026 release slate: two positional-play courses, a Petrov Defence database update, and a review written by the publisher itselfA small chess club tucked at the end of an alley. Yellow bulbs, a scratched...
5.e5 — The Knight's Move and the Gap Between Opening Theory and Club RealityThe game took place at table four in a small chess club at the end of an alle...
The Petrov Defence and the Applause of Games Never PlayedIn a small training room in Shanghai, a seventeen-year-old boy places his...
India Bring the Double to Samarkand: Decoding the 11-Round Swiss Format of the Largest Chess Olympiad in HistorySamarkand once served as a weighing station on the Silk Road, where caravans...
Pakistan forfeits the Israel match at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: a move made off the boardSamarkand, an empty board On 15 September 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, Gukesh and the Test of Unverified NumbersOn the second day of play at the Budapest 2026 Chess Olympiad, I sat in a sma...
The 9...a5 Move and the Bayonet Night: When Chess Theory Chooses SilenceEvery stadium I have walked through holds a secret door, and the entrance is...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads India's Women's Team — and the Hidden Logic of Board OrderIn team chess events, there is a moment almost no one watches: when the paper...
Knight Magic and the 5.e5 Move: A Sharp Weapon Built on an Empty Data FoundationThe move 5.e5 appears on the board, and the whole club buzzes. A product name...
The Petroff Defence and Two Positional-Play Courses: Signals of a Shift in the Chess Training MarketOn 13 September 2026, ChessBase published a roundup titled 'All new releases ...
Empty Rooms in Samarkand, Empty Form at Board One: India's Two Burdens at the 2026 OlympiadSamarkand, around 3 p.m. local time. The Indian chess team's plane had just...
The Samarkand Torch: Chess Olympiad 2026 Begins, and Three Claims Worth VerifyingIn the final frame of a short clip released by the All India Chess Federation...
August's Petroff Update and the Chess Training-Content Market5:40 in Da Nang A small coffee shop on Nguyen Van Linh Street opens at five. ...
ChessBase August 2026: The Petroff Update and a Theory GapFrom the sideline, I see the whole game. On August 13, 2026, in a lull betwee...
ChessBase and its August 2026 release slate: two positional-play courses, a Petrov Defence database update, and a review written by the publisher itselfA small chess club tucked at the end of an alley. Yellow bulbs, a scratched...
5.e5 — The Knight's Move and the Gap Between Opening Theory and Club RealityThe game took place at table four in a small chess club at the end of an alle...
The Petrov Defence and the Applause of Games Never PlayedIn a small training room in Shanghai, a seventeen-year-old boy places his...
