Chess
The Italian Game's 5.e5 Branch: A Surprise Weapon for Club Players, But the Title-Content Gap Is the Real Story
One Line from Nicosia and an Empty Ledger Column: The Unsourced Claim to the FIDE Presidency
Magnus Carlsen's Confession: 'AI Has Shown Humans Are Not That Excellent' — And What He Leaves Unsaid
5.e5: The Italian Game Sideline Whose Headline Is Running Ahead of Its Content
ChessThe Italian Game's 5.e5 Branch: A Surprise Weapon for Club Players, But the Title-Content Gap Is the Real StoryHook: One move that leads to the same trap from two roads Over the past few...
ChessOne Line from Nicosia and an Empty Ledger Column: The Unsourced Claim to the FIDE PresidencyThe source field reads “None.” The first and, in effect, only news item here ...
ChessMagnus Carlsen's Confession: 'AI Has Shown Humans Are Not That Excellent' — And What He Leaves UnsaidOpening: A Sentence That Ran With Half the Truth On 21 October this year, in ...
ChessVahap Sanal and Team Türkiye at the NATO Chess Championship: The Real Story Behind an Incomplete HeadlineOn a September morning, in my room in Kolkata, I read a headline that would...
Chess5.e5: The Italian Game Sideline Whose Headline Is Running Ahead of Its ContentThe headline reads: “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls with Bodhana...
ChessNicosia Meeting: Two Facts, Three Ads and One Unverified HeadlineThere are five information units on this page. Two sit in the headline — a...
ChessOne Headline, Two Stories: Vahap Sanal's NATO Title and the Scorecard That Was Never in the FileThe file landed in my inbox on a Monday morning with a clean headline: “Vahap...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Bayegan Favourites at 2715 Average, But the Title Will Be Decided on Boards 4 to 6On Monday afternoon, when the third round of the European Club Cup began, the...
ChessThe Benko Gambit "Full Repertoire" and Fritz 20: Where the Spec Sheet Went MissingLate last week, in my study in Chicago, I opened a product page and counted t...
ChessA 60-Minute Video on the Scandinavian: An Uncited Carlsen Claim, and a Page Whose Headline Belongs to Another StoryLast week a page surfaced on my screen with the headline “From quitting chess...
ChessNineteen Minutes on Move Five: The 5.e5 Story, and a Headline Selling Something ElseThere is a two-hundred-square-foot room above a stationery shop in...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The 60-Minute Claim and the Missing Carlsen EvidenceA scene that still bothers me: Pune, winter 2026, a 14-year-old at a club boa...
ChessThe 9...a5 'Antidote': Inside the King's Indian Bayonet Sales Pitch That Ships Without an InvoiceNinety minutes for forty moves, then thirty more, with a thirty-second...
ChessThe Budapest Pilot: Four Names, One 'Fast Classic', and a Rating Question the Release Never AnswersOn the afternoon of 29 August 2026 a press release landed on my desk in...