Chess
16-year-old Rachael Li wins US Women's Chess Championship; 11-year-old Shogdzhiev claims second GM norm
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds; SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round Four
Carlsen's Two Curves: Move Quality Up, the Five-Hour Engine Down
The 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Five Line Clusters and a Headline From Another Match
The Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Poisoned Queen Label: Chess's Headline–Content Gap
16-year-old Rachael Li wins US Women's Chess Championship; 11-year-old Shogdzhiev claims second GM normAt the Saint Louis Chess Club, 16-year-old Rachael Li has won the 2026 US...
FIDE Survey: Three in Four Female Chess Players Report Bias or Harassment — but the Denominator Is MissingHook The page that reached me began with a cookie notice. It sat not at the...
The Room in Prague, the Desk in Pune: ChessBase Magazine #225In that hall in Prague, the sound of pieces on the board was like a clock...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams on One Score, and a Headline That Doesn't ReconcileEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams on One Score, and a Headline That Doesn'...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Title Came in a Tiebreak — and the Decisive Moment Went UnrecordedWesley So's Fourth US Chess Title Came in a Tiebreak — and the Decisive Momen...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, the Tiebreak Ledger — and a Headline Attached to an Opening CourseWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in a tiebreak to win his fourth US Chess...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds; SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round FourOpen the standings table. Eleven teams sit on the same scoreline in the open...
Elephant Gambit: A Different Opening Sold Under the Najdorf NameElephant Gambit: A Different Opening Sold Under the Najdorf Name An evening a...
European Club Cup: Budva's Lone 2715 Peak, and the Real Fight on the Lower BoardsThe headline says Barcelona. The body says Budva. The top line announces that...
A Lion's Name, an Elephant's Move: Opening the Book on a Sixty-Minute Chess CourseLast month, at a Kolkata club, on board four, an eighteen-year-old walked up ...
Carlsen's Two Curves: Move Quality Up, the Five-Hour Engine DownIn an interview published by Marca on 21 October (original source: AS), Magnu...
Carlsen's AI Line Is the Headline; the Real Document Is a Five-Hour Fatigue AdmissionThe Marca interview ran on 21 October, source agency AS, and three weeks late...
108 Teams in Budva, Only One Above 2700: The European Club Cup's Real Number Is the Spread, Not the AverageThe pairing sheet for round two went up in Budva with twenty-five teams marke...
Novy Bor Stayed Perfect — But the Page Carrying the News Was Selling a Scotch Video11:40 pm, Pune desk. I open a major chess portal to check the European Club C...
The 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Five Line Clusters and a Headline From Another MatchI opened the spreadsheet again, and this time the match changed the story. Th...
The Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Poisoned Queen Label: Chess's Headline–Content GapIt was two in the morning. One tube-light was on in the Delhi flat, and on th...
Budva's 2715: One Team's Average, 103 Teams' Silence, and a Headline That Says BarcelonaLast Monday, when I pulled up the Budva standings, three numbers hit first:...
Sold as the Poisoned Pawn, Teaching the Elephant: The Label Fault in a 60-Minute CourseThat night at the Tata Steel blitz arena still sits with me. The microphone w...