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The 5.e5 Modern Italian: A Club Weapon With a Shelf Life2026-10-19Bangalore, 8:10 in the evening, rain drumming on the tin roof of a tea stall ...
The Elephant Gambit in Budva: When Chess Runs Out of Room for Romance2026-10-18Autumn in Budva. The boards were set in perfect rows, the white lights aimed...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall, and the Gap the Headline Leaves Behind2026-10-16In Atyrau, an oil city on the banks of the Ural River in Kazakhstan, the top...
Game 743: When a Chess Teaching Show Outlasts Every Trend2026-10-10One Wednesday evening, I reopened an old chess episode on my computer screen....
Decoding Game of the Week Episode 743: 14 Years of Turning Chess Analysis Into a Habit2026-10-09On Wednesday evenings, when most open tournaments have closed and the standin...
The Najdorf Has No Final Version: Daniel King and 60 Minutes of Patching a DefenseA 60-minute video file, in English, with no variation tables, no engine...
The Scandinavian Defense, 60 Minutes, and a Headline Out of SyncOne in the morning in Shanghai, I reopened a game by an amateur player on an...
The 5 e5! Modern Italian: One Hour, Three Replies, and the Price of MemorisationThe board sits by the window. Late afternoon light on the Bach Dang riverside...
The 5.e5 Modern Italian: A Club Weapon With a Shelf LifeBangalore, 8:10 in the evening, rain drumming on the tin roof of a tea stall ...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Headline About the European Club Cup, A Body With No MovesSix in the morning, Da Nang had not yet turned hot. I opened my inbox and fou...
The Elephant Gambit: the second move, the 60-minute video and the gap at BudvaAt Budva, the European Club Cup scoreboard records only the result of each...
The Elephant Gambit in Budva: When Chess Runs Out of Room for RomanceAutumn in Budva. The boards were set in perfect rows, the white lights aimed...
The 9...a5 Move: When Black Stops Memorizing in the King's Indian DefenseI once sat for an entire evening beside a young chess player in a small club ...
The King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move and an Unverified 'Clean' AntidoteBlack's clock ticked down from 4:12 to 3:58. White had just pushed the pawn t...
The 9...a5 Move and a Strategic Bypass in the Bayonet Attack EraThe 9...a5 Move and a Strategic Bypass in the Bayonet Attack Era On the third...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fall, and the Gap the Headline Leaves BehindIn Atyrau, an oil city on the banks of the Ural River in Kazakhstan, the top...
5.e5: The Strange Comfort of the Club Chess PlayerOn a Thursday evening, in a small chess club tucked down an alley off Nguyen...
Kostya Kavutskiy and FritzTrainer: When the Chess World Buys a VoiceOn ChessBase's FritzTrainer shelf, two new courses have just been placed besi...
Kostya Kavutskiy Joins FritzTrainer: The Chess Content War Is Not Fought on the BoardKostya Kavutskiy has never held an Elo rating high enough to crack the world'...
Game 743: When a Chess Teaching Show Outlasts Every TrendOne Wednesday evening, I reopened an old chess episode on my computer screen....
Decoding Game of the Week Episode 743: 14 Years of Turning Chess Analysis Into a HabitOn Wednesday evenings, when most open tournaments have closed and the standin...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures and the Chess Knowledge Packaging ProblemChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures and the Chess Knowledge...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: When the Publisher Grades Its Own ProductOn the cover of issue 225 is Bent Larsen. In the table of contents there is n...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and the Question of Bent LarsenWhen I opened the contents list of ChessBase Magazine issue 225, the first...
