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Chess5 e5!: A Beautiful Move and the Data Gap Behind a 60-Minute VideoAt a weekend open in Shanghai, board seven, Black's clock showed 41 minutes f...
ChessWhen the headline 'Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027' deceives readers: The story behind a chess courseI thought I was exiled from chess, but it turned out chess led me deeper into...
ChessUS Championships: Woodward takes down Caruana, Lee widens the gapA black pawn dropped onto d5 on the second move. The hall fell silent. Woodwa...
ChessAtyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall and the Content Current Redrawing the World ChessboardOpening — The Sound of a Piece Falling in an Oil City In Atyrau, a city on th...
ChessKarsten Müller and the Craft of Keeping the Endgame Alive in the Engine AgeThere is a move that no coach teaches you to love. The king steps one square,...
ChessUzChess Cup: Brandon Jacobson's 'Miniature' Win and a Mislabeled OpeningThe moment any opening researcher remembers: a game that ended so fast the...
ChessSveshnikov's 5.e5!: The Central Gamble Every Club Player Should KnowAt a club championship in Binh Duong last season, I sat behind a young player...
ChessFrom Bent Larsen to Prague 2026: What a Chess Magazine Actually Sells to PlayersA March night in Prague, and I was sitting in a small cafe near Wenceslas...
ChessThe Najdorf and the 60-Minute Update: Where Opening Theory Gets Maintained, Not Invented1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6. Seven moves. That is enough f...
ChessBetween Engine Noise and the Bayonet: Re-reading 9...a5 in the King's Indian DefenseSome moves make no sound when placed on the board, and that very silence is w...
ChessThe Ninth Move a5: King's Indian Escapes the Book, but Not the MachineThe Ninth Move a5: King's Indian Escapes the Book, but Not the Machine On the...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: Lessons from a 'Super Knight' and the Price of SafetyDa Nang, a Thursday evening. In a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225: Twenty-Seven Short Games and the Lesson of Human ErrorOn October 8, 2026, when ChessBase Magazine released its 225th issue, what ma...
ChessGukesh and the Blunder on Move 55: The World Chess Crown Changes Hands in SingaporeOn December 12, 2026, in Singapore, on the 55th move of Game 14, Ding Liren...
ChessVietnam's golden chess generation is not dead — they simply stopped being namedOn a July afternoon, I sat in the lobby of a hotel where an international che...
Chess2026 Chess Olympiad: Vietnam Ninth in Women's Section, Group B Champions in Men's, and a Combined Table That Needs RereadingOn board five, Nguyen Thi Mai Hung closed the tournament with a 2,395...
ChessSamarkand and the Gap on Board One: Vietnam, China, and the Lesson of Squad DepthOn September 27, in Samarkand, Board 1 of the Vietnam women's team lost. Not ...
ChessKing's Indian Defence: When Opening Theory Becomes a Treadmill With No ExitIn the King's Indian Defence, Classical System, the move 9.b4 — the Bayonet...
