Chess
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Is Maintenance, Not Theory
27 Miniatures from Prague 2026: The Real Data Signal Inside ChessBase Magazine #225
5.5/7, 2465, and a Date That Doesn't Add Up: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM Claim
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, Three Opening Videos, and the Old Brown Envelope
An IM at Eleven: The 2465 That Says More Than the Headline
One Gambit, One Clock and One Unverified Record: A Technical Audit of an 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Player's IM Norm
Chess27 Miniatures from Prague 2026: The Real Data Signal Inside ChessBase Magazine #225The first thing that catches the eye in the contents page of ChessBase Magazi...
Chess5.5/7, 2465, and a Date That Doesn't Add Up: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM ClaimShe was playing black in the final round. Across the board sat WIM Viktoria...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, Three Opening Videos, and the Old Brown EnvelopeA thin packet arrived by post in Bengaluru last Tuesday. Under four hundred...
ChessAn IM at Eleven: The 2465 That Says More Than the HeadlineFinal round, board one. Black pieces. She came out of a gambit line with an...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Is Maintenance, Not TheoryStopwatches are a habit I picked up and never put down. In Riyadh I filled...
ChessOne Gambit, One Clock and One Unverified Record: A Technical Audit of an 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Player's IM Norm23 October. Board one. Final round. Black pieces. Eleven years old. A gambit...
ChessAuditing the 11-Year-Old 'IM' Story: The 2,465 Performance Is Real, the Calendar Isn'tPut a date on paper: October 23. Now add the source's own numbers — born 2026...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents and a Blank Cross-Table: What the Prisoners' Chess Championship Actually Left BehindOn 13 May 2026 a chess championship began. It ended on 23 May 2026....
ChessSay Najdorf, Hear Elephant: Why a Chess Course's Headline Mismatches Its ContentSay Najdorf, Hear Elephant: Why a Chess Course's Headline Mismatches Its...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian Defense, and a Headline Name That Never Appears in the BodyI read the headline on the screen twice. The first time I assumed my eyes had...