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FIDE President Timur Turlov's Cyprus Visit: An Audit of an Unsourced Story
9...a5 Is No Antidote, Just a Strategic Alibi
Reviewing the Benko Gambit: GM Sipke Ernst's Repertoire, or a FRITZ 20 Advertisement?
Mar del Plata's 9...a5: An 'Antidote' With No Player Attached
European Club Cup: The Structural Gap Behind the Favourites' 'Comfortable' Wins
The "Antidote" Thesis of 9...a5: Strategic Terms of the King's Indian Against the Bayonet Attack
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Structural Gap Behind the Favourites' 'Comfortable' WinsOne way to read the European Club Cup results is to look at the scoreboard an...
ChessThe "Antidote" Thesis of 9...a5: Strategic Terms of the King's Indian Against the Bayonet AttackOne sentence in the Mar del Plata King's Indian, 9.b4 Bayonet Attack complex...
ChessCarlsen Opens the Ledger: Fading Stamina, Faster Wins and the $20 Million Price of a TitleOn the morning of October 21, 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS published a long...
ChessLopez's Unseen Move: 9...a5 in Mar del Plata and the Silence of Closed PositionsI still remember the room with no board. In 2026, after twelve draws between...
ChessBudva's Headline and the Elephant Gambit's Sixty Minutes: When News and Shop Share One Chess PageOpen the page that carries the Budva headline. The body is not about the...
ChessFIDE President Timur Turlov's Cyprus Visit: An Unsourced Governance Claim Wrapped in FRITZ 20 AdvertisingThe first thing that strikes you about the news of FIDE President Timur...
ChessTotal Chess Unified Rating Proposal: A Technical and Commercial Scrutiny of the Budapest PilotWhen the first move is played in a Budapest hotel hall on 10 November 2026, I...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Real Story Behind the Favourites' Comfortable WinsReports from the European Club Cup usually follow a predictable pattern —...
ChessFIDE President Timur Turlov's Cyprus Visit: An Audit of an Unsourced StoryThe headline contains only two facts: FIDE President Timur Turlov and a meeti...
ChessSixty Minutes on the Scandinavian: Carlsen's Borrowed Name, a Mismatched Headline, and the Coaching Economy of ChessSixty Minutes on the Scandinavian: Carlsen's Borrowed Name, a Mismatched...
ChessThe 9...a5 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack: Auditing a King's Indian Opening Product That Ships Without DataOne line in the blurb stopped me: "computers often do not know how to handle...
ChessIs Total Chess's 'World Championship Tour' Claim Hollow? Six Empty Boxes Before the Budapest PilotThe Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot in Budapest, running 10–21...
ChessScandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Carlsen's Name, an Uncited Claim, and Chess's Oldest Marketing TrickI have read hundreds of chess product pages over the years, and one thing...
ChessTotal Chess in Budapest: A Rating Headline Wrapped Around a Four-Player BodyThe press note of 29 August 2026 carried a photograph credited to FIDE. No...
ChessScandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Carlsen's Name Is There, the Game Citation Is NotLast week a product page landed on my St Petersburg desk. The headline read:...
Chess9...a5 Is No Antidote, Just a Strategic AlibiLet us talk about Mar del Plata. That branch of the King's Indian Defence whe...
ChessReviewing the Benko Gambit: GM Sipke Ernst's Repertoire, or a FRITZ 20 Advertisement?It was September 2026. The final day of the Budapest Olympiad, and the Indian...
ChessMar del Plata's 9...a5: An 'Antidote' With No Player AttachedIf an opening product's blurb announces an “antidote” to White's Bayonet...
ChessThe "Antidote" Thesis of 9...a5: Strategic Terms of the King's Indian Against the Bayonet AttackOne sentence in the Mar del Plata King's Indian, 9.b4 Bayonet Attack complex...
ChessCarlsen Opens the Ledger: Fading Stamina, Faster Wins and the $20 Million Price of a TitleOn the morning of October 21, 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS published a long...
ChessLopez's Unseen Move: 9...a5 in Mar del Plata and the Silence of Closed PositionsI still remember the room with no board. In 2026, after twelve draws between...
ChessBudva's Headline and the Elephant Gambit's Sixty Minutes: When News and Shop Share One Chess PageOpen the page that carries the Budva headline. The body is not about the...
ChessFIDE President Timur Turlov's Cyprus Visit: An Unsourced Governance Claim Wrapped in FRITZ 20 AdvertisingThe first thing that strikes you about the news of FIDE President Timur...
ChessTotal Chess Unified Rating Proposal: A Technical and Commercial Scrutiny of the Budapest PilotWhen the first move is played in a Budapest hotel hall on 10 November 2026, I...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Real Story Behind the Favourites' Comfortable WinsReports from the European Club Cup usually follow a predictable pattern —...
ChessFIDE President Timur Turlov's Cyprus Visit: An Audit of an Unsourced StoryThe headline contains only two facts: FIDE President Timur Turlov and a meeti...
ChessSixty Minutes on the Scandinavian: Carlsen's Borrowed Name, a Mismatched Headline, and the Coaching Economy of ChessSixty Minutes on the Scandinavian: Carlsen's Borrowed Name, a Mismatched...
ChessThe 9...a5 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack: Auditing a King's Indian Opening Product That Ships Without DataOne line in the blurb stopped me: "computers often do not know how to handle...
ChessIs Total Chess's 'World Championship Tour' Claim Hollow? Six Empty Boxes Before the Budapest PilotThe Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot in Budapest, running 10–21...
ChessScandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Carlsen's Name, an Uncited Claim, and Chess's Oldest Marketing TrickI have read hundreds of chess product pages over the years, and one thing...
ChessTotal Chess in Budapest: A Rating Headline Wrapped Around a Four-Player BodyThe press note of 29 August 2026 carried a photograph credited to FIDE. No...
ChessScandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Carlsen's Name Is There, the Game Citation Is NotLast week a product page landed on my St Petersburg desk. The headline read:...
Chess9...a5 Is No Antidote, Just a Strategic AlibiLet us talk about Mar del Plata. That branch of the King's Indian Defence whe...
ChessReviewing the Benko Gambit: GM Sipke Ernst's Repertoire, or a FRITZ 20 Advertisement?It was September 2026. The final day of the Budapest Olympiad, and the Indian...
ChessMar del Plata's 9...a5: An 'Antidote' With No Player AttachedIf an opening product's blurb announces an “antidote” to White's Bayonet...