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A Tiebreak Gave Wesley So His Fourth US Title — and the Same Page Was Selling a Course on Avoiding Theory
European Club Cup: The Eleven-Way Tie Is a Scoring Artifact — the Board-Point Tiebreak Is the Real Scoreboard
Rachel Li's Title and Andrew Martin's DVD: A Story Whose Record Has Not Yet Been Written
Chess in Prison: 77 Teams, Five Continents, But Not a Single Name | FIDE Chess for Freedom Report
77 Teams Behind Bars: In This Tournament the Real Story Is Supervision, Not the Scoreboard
An IM Title, Seven Games and a Date That Won't Reconcile: Auditing the 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Record
ChessChess in Prison: 77 Teams, Five Continents, But Not a Single Name | FIDE Chess for Freedom ReportOn May 13, 2026, FIDE's Chess for Freedom initiative launched the first...
Chess77 Teams Behind Bars: In This Tournament the Real Story Is Supervision, Not the ScoreboardOne row in that scoresheet had no name in it. On the morning of May 13, 2026,...
ChessAn IM Title, Seven Games and a Date That Won't Reconcile: Auditing the 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Record23 October, board one, final round. Black pieces. An advantage built out of a...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's New Update Teaches Five Lines, It Doesn't Train YouThe monsoon smell returns to the same Chennai tournament hall every season —...
ChessSixty Minutes, Five Lines: The Najdorf Update That Sells Maintenance, Not TheoryFor the last three weeks a stopwatch has been running on my laptop. The reaso...
ChessThree Rounds, Eleven Level Teams, and a Table That Is Not Telling You About FormOctober 2026: the twentieth falls on a Tuesday. I checked the calendar before...
ChessA Najdorf Name on an Elephant Gambit Box: The Ledger of a Sixty-Minute RepertoireSixty minutes. One hour. Less than a single television episode, and less than...
ChessA Tiebreak Gave Wesley So His Fourth US Title — and the Same Page Was Selling a Course on Avoiding TheoryThe first thing that happened in the St. Louis Chess Club after the last move...
ChessThe European Club Cup's Eleven-Way Tie Doesn't Throw the Title Open — Board Points Are the Real ScoreboardThe standings board at the back of the hall updated on the evening of the thi...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Eleven-Way Tie Is a Scoring Artifact — the Board-Point Tiebreak Is the Real ScoreboardOctober 20, 2026, a Tuesday. Three rounds of the European Club Cup's open...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a 'Latest Theory' Claim That Expires on ArrivalThere is a sentence on the product page: “the latest trends in opening theory...
ChessRachel Li's Title and Andrew Martin's DVD: A Story Whose Record Has Not Yet Been WrittenOn Monday afternoon a headline came across the desk: ‘Rachel Li stunningly wi...