Chess
Bodhana Sivanandan at 11 Years and 7 Months: The Third IM Norm and the End of Judit Polgar's 38-Year Record2026-10-25Board one, final round, black pieces, and only one result acceptable. Bodhana...
Carlsen: 'AI shows humans aren't that good' — and the 20 million USD price tag2026-10-22On October 21, in an interview with Spanish outlet AS, Magnus Carlsen said...
1...d5 in 60 Minutes: The Space Map a Chess Course Refuses to Draw2026-10-17Friday night, board four of a small chess club on Nguyen Van Linh Street in D...
ChessBase and the Personal-Brand Gamble: Inside the Chess Content War2026-10-11In a 120-page report, I found what the season never records: repetition. Year...
Deep Analysis: A Chess Course Promo Disguised as Clutch Chess News and a Panoramic View of Elite ChessIn the international chess media landscape, the phenomenon of an article whos...
Bodhana Sivanandan at 11 Years and 7 Months: The Third IM Norm and the End of Judit Polgar's 38-Year RecordBoard one, final round, black pieces, and only one result acceptable. Bodhana...
Carlsen: 'AI shows humans aren't that good' — and the 20 million USD price tagOn October 21, in an interview with Spanish outlet AS, Magnus Carlsen said...
The Hour of the Seconds: Why Black's Ninth Move Is the Smartest Bet on the BoardThere is a moment in the analysis room in Nizhny Novgorod, 2026, when I saw...
The Wordless Move: When Chinese Chess Learns to Listen to ItselfIn the third-floor press room of a small hotel in Jing'an District, Shanghai,...
When the Pawn Is No Longer a Pawn: The Benko Gambit's Battle in the Engine EraIn a small cafe on Nguyen Du Street, Saigon, in the April heat, I watched a...
1...d5 in 60 Minutes: The Space Map a Chess Course Refuses to DrawFriday night, board four of a small chess club on Nguyen Van Linh Street in D...
9...a5 against the Bayonet in the King's Indian Defense: a clean solution or a clearing move?In my study in Nha Trang, I set the position up on the electronic board: 1.d4...
AI Breaks a 58-Year Chess Record: 63 Legal Checking Moves Is the Maximum, While 364 Is Only an Upper BoundIn 2026, the chess composition community posed a question that went unanswere...
Karsten Müller and the Endgame: Selling the Truth the Machine Has SealedIn a rook-and-pawn endgame, the distance between a win and a draw is sometime...
ChessBase and the Personal-Brand Gamble: Inside the Chess Content WarIn a 120-page report, I found what the season never records: repetition. Year...
UzChess Cup: The 7.b3 Move and the Birch Forest – When Jacobson Sowed Surprise in the Heart of Central AsiaI remember a winter evening in Saint Petersburg, when the snow fell so thickl...
Bodhana Sivanandan and the 3.Bc4 Move: An 11-Year-Old, a 2504 Performance at the 2026 Chess OlympiadIn Samarkand, at the 2026 Chess Olympiad, there was one board that made...
Bodhana Sivanandan: 6/7 and a 2504 Performance Rating, Measuring Before NamingIn Samarkand, when the seventh round of the women's section closed, an...
Daniel King Updates the Najdorf Sicilian: Five Theory Complexes in Sixty MinutesThree in the morning, and I open a freshly downloaded file. Small size, sixty...
The Najdorf Tape: When the Director Called Me ColdI rewind the SEA Games 29 tapes to find what others overlooked. But this time...
The Najdorf Defense and the Burden of Opening TheoryBlack pushes the pawn from a7 to a6. One square. No capture, no check, no sou...
9...a5: The Quiet Move Against the Machine AgeIn March, during a rapid chess commentary session in Da Nang, I encountered a...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Club Player's Time-Saving Weapon and the Claims That Need VerificationDuring a game at a club tournament in Chiang Mai that I was watching, Black...
Discovering Vietnam's Secret Chess Weapon: The Modern Variation of the Italian GameIn the Vietnamese chess scene, where young players are constantly exploring n...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: 27 Miniature Games and the Value of SlownessOn October 8, 2026, ChessBase released the 225th issue of its magazine. Insid...
The Modern Italian: Is 5.e5! a Forgotten Weapon or Simply a Memory Trap?I still remember the moment a young chess player in Shanghai unleashed 5.e5...
Three Gold Medals in Five Days: Re-reading Nguyen Thi Oanh at SEA Games 29 Through Track DataIn late 2026, in a small editing room in Hai Phong, I sat alone in front of a...
9...a5: The Strategic Response to the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian DefenseThe theoretical arms race surrounding the King's Indian Defense has always...
9...a5 and a Mismatched Label: When a Chess DVD Sells a "Cure" for the Bayonet AttackI sat in front of the screen at 2 a.m., scrolling back through a chess produc...
When Collective Memory Sleeps: An 11-Year-Old's Game and the Move Nobody ExpectedThere was a night in Da Nang when I sat in a small studio, listening back to ...
The Black Side's Royal Road: Six Videos, Seven Systems, and a Catalan-Shaped GapIn the course's promotional page, opening names appear in two places: four...
