Chess
A Najdorf Envelope, an Elephant Letter: Selling 'Underrated' Chess in Sixty Minutes
Wesley So Beat Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks for a Fourth US Title — But Most of the Story Was Selling a Course
Prisoners' Chess Championship: The Scale of 77 Teams Is There, Not a Single PGN of Performance
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks, Wins Fourth US Chess Championship Title
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Date That Refuses to Add Up
Prisoners' Chess Championship: The Scale of 77 Teams Is There, Not a Single PGN of PerformanceBetween 13 and 23 May 2026, under FIDE's Chess for Freedom initiative, the...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks, Wins Fourth US Chess Championship TitleAround one in the morning, the main hall of the St. Louis Chess Club refused ...
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Date That Refuses to Add UpThe morning tea had gone cold and my notebook had three dates on it. The firs...
Elephant Gambit, a Najdorf Label and a Sixty-Minute Promise: Auditing Chess's Surprise-Weapon MarketAt a club open in Bangalore, on the afternoon of the third round, I stood nea...
A Najdorf Envelope, an Elephant Letter: Selling 'Underrated' Chess in Sixty MinutesIn August 2026 I took a day of casual leave and five hours of bus to...
Wesley So Beat Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks for a Fourth US Title — But Most of the Story Was Selling a CourseThe page that reached me had a clean headline: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Was Settled in a Tiebreak, and the Real Scoresheet Is the Empty Squares Nobody OccupiedThe headline in my feed was clean. Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreak...
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Gambit: The Unaudited Claim Sheet of a 60-Minute Opening CourseI sat down looking for the Najdorf Poisoned Pawn. 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 — the...
Budva European Club Cup: A 2715 Average, and the Silence Around the Women's 22-Team FieldThe entry list for Budva arrives in two parts. One column carries 108 open...
Najdorf Poisoned Queen or Elephant Gambit? A Data Audit of a 60-Minute Chess CourseLast week I was reading the product page for a chess course and felt that old...
A FIDE President in the Headline, a FRITZ 20 Advert in the Body: The Case File on a Chess Content FailureThe link opened at 11:40 pm. The headline read: “FIDE President Timur Turlov...
Carlsen's 'humans are not that good' line: the headline reads modesty, the schema reads accuracy ceilingOn 21 October, an interview published in Marca (original source: AS) carried...