Chess
Bayegan Pendik, Monte-Carlo and the Blank Scorecard at the 2026 European Club Cup
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Maintenance Patch or Strategic Move?
European Club Cup: The Lead Is Defended on Board Four, Not Board One
The 5.e5! Thrust of the Modern Italian: A Club Weapon With an Expiry Date
Bayegan Pendik, Monte-Carlo and the Blank Scorecard at the 2026 European Club CupAt five in the morning I switched on the desk lamp in my flat in Binh Duong,...
Bodhana Sivanandan completes IM norms at 11, breaking Judit Polgar's 38-year recordThe game ended on move 32. Bodhana Sivanandan set her knight down, looked up ...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Maintenance Patch or Strategic Move?Daniel King, a veteran English Grandmaster and long-time ChessBase author, ha...
European Club Cup: The Lead Is Defended on Board Four, Not Board OneBeer Sheva, the tenth seed, is the only team among the top twelve seeds to ha...
Daniel King and 60 Minutes of Najdorf Maintenance: Opening Theory as a Service ContractThe game reached move five. White pushed the f-pawn to f3 and left the knight...
European Club Cup in Budva: Bayegan Pendik at 2715 and the 65-Point Gap per BoardIn Budva, the organisers had to add tables. The conference hall of an Adriati...
The 5.e5! Thrust of the Modern Italian: A Club Weapon With an Expiry DateSaturday morning, in a coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang, I s...
Total Chess and the Unified Rating System: A Headline Without a BodyIn the nine information points I read three times on the evening of 29 August...
The Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Promise and the Gap That Opens at Move 15Thu Dau Mot, a Saturday evening at the end of the month. The chess club sits ...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Four Annotators, 27 Miniatures, and a Headline That Runs Ahead of Its ContentThe page opens with the European Club Cup. I read it once, read it again, the...
ChessBase and the European Club Cup: When News Is Sold as a Product CatalogueThe ChessBase article is headlined around the European Club Cup, but its body...
The Scotch Opening: From Forgotten Footpath to Kasparov's WeaponIn 2026, in one of the games of the World Chess Championship match between...
Behind Bars, a Chessboard: The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners and the Unsettled 140 TeamsInside a prison cell, fluorescent light falls on a small chessboard set on a...
3.Bc4, an 11-Year-Old and the 2504 Score: What Is Samarkand Telling Us?I sat before the screen, replaying a game for which I had no record. That...
Nihal Sarin's +2 Collapse: The Three Moves That Cost India the OlympiadWhen Nihal Sarin's clock still showed 30 minutes and the engine evaluation...
Poland and an old lesson: when India women lose a match with no score sheetTwo screens, an empty spreadsheet, and one short line of result. Round 5 of t...
Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand: When a Tournament Headline Masks a Product CatalogueThat V-League summer taught me a lesson: a formation only looks beautiful whe...
