Chess
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Mismatched Name: An Operational Read of the First Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners
An IM Claim at Eleven: What the Scoreboard Shows and the Calendar Doesn't
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: An Audit of Elite Chess's Prep Race
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Surviving Market for Annotation
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: An Audit of Elite Chess's Prep RaceWhile scanning the scoresheet of the Prague Chess Festival 2026, one number...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Surviving Market for AnnotationTwenty-seven games, and not one of them needed more than twenty-five moves....
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Mismatched Name: An Operational Read of the First Continental Chess Championships for PrisonersThree numbers were locked in the FIDE material: 13–23 May 2026, 77 teams, fiv...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Auditing Daniel King's Update and the Shelf Life of TheoryChicago Chess Center, Tuesday night, board three. A 1780-rated club player...
An IM Claim at Eleven: What the Scoreboard Shows and the Calendar Doesn'tOctober 23. An open tournament, seven rounds, board one. An eleven-year-old...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and ChessBase Magazine #225: This Is a Scoreboard of Preparation, Not EntertainmentOn a March 2026 afternoon inside Prague's Don Giovanni Hotel, the spectators...
A 2,465 Performance Rating at Eleven — and the Number Missing From Vietnam's IM ClaimIn the final round she had the black pieces. A gambit line, a pawn up, and...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: One Course, One Borrowed Name, and the Economy of Club ChessHook: One Envelope, Two Stories In the bottom shelf of a cupboard in my...