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European Club Cup in Budva: 108 Teams, One 2715 Average and a Headline From Another Country
Novy Bor and SuperChess Are 'Perfect' — Where Is the Crosstable?
Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Missing Denominator: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225
The Prisoners' Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and the Rulebook That Never Got Published
Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Missing Denominator: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225I read the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 the way I read an invoice...
The Prisoners' Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and the Rulebook That Never Got PublishedHook May 13, 2026. The first round of an online chess event is under way and...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Score Sheets: Auditing the Prison Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026 a press note sat on my desk. Eleven days of...
IM at 11 Years 7 Months: The Arithmetic Checks Out, the Calendar Doesn'tSeven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. 5.5/7 on board one. A seven-round...
The Arithmetic of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters and the Invisible Cost of a RepertoireSAR: The Arithmetic of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters an...
A report dated before its own dateline: age 11, 5.5 points and a 2465 performanceA strange scorecard landed on my desk. According to the report, an 11-year-ol...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams on One Match Point, and a Board One That Has Not Been Played YetThe crosstable for round three came off the printer on a single A4 sheet, and...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Falls in Tiebreaks, but 89 Percent of the Story Was Selling Something ElseProvenance Box Event: US Chess Championship — Wesley So vs Fabiano Caruana,...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level Is a Scoresheet Artifact, Not a Strength VerdictThe tribune habit does not leave you after forty years. This time I was not i...
The Scandinavian Defense Video and the 'Rachel Li' Headline: What a Data Audit Can and Cannot ProveA headline says Rachel Li stunningly won the US Women's Championship. Open th...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and a Board-One Clash Nobody Has ConfirmedOn the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, before the round-four team sheet...
European Club Cup in Budva: 108 Teams, One 2715 Average and a Headline From Another CountryAt 1 a.m. the Budva scoreboard was a file on my laptop and a guess. The...
27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, One Time Lag: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Is Actually SellingTwenty-seven. That is the number the 225th issue of ChessBase Magazine hangs...
The Prisoners' Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and the Rulebook That Never Got PublishedHook May 13, 2026. The first round of an online chess event is under way and...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Score Sheets: Auditing the Prison Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026 a press note sat on my desk. Eleven days of...
IM at 11 Years 7 Months: The Arithmetic Checks Out, the Calendar Doesn'tSeven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. 5.5/7 on board one. A seven-round...
The Arithmetic of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters and the Invisible Cost of a RepertoireSAR: The Arithmetic of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters an...
A report dated before its own dateline: age 11, 5.5 points and a 2465 performanceA strange scorecard landed on my desk. According to the report, an 11-year-ol...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams on One Match Point, and a Board One That Has Not Been Played YetThe crosstable for round three came off the printer on a single A4 sheet, and...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Falls in Tiebreaks, but 89 Percent of the Story Was Selling Something ElseProvenance Box Event: US Chess Championship — Wesley So vs Fabiano Caruana,...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level Is a Scoresheet Artifact, Not a Strength VerdictThe tribune habit does not leave you after forty years. This time I was not i...
The Scandinavian Defense Video and the 'Rachel Li' Headline: What a Data Audit Can and Cannot ProveA headline says Rachel Li stunningly won the US Women's Championship. Open th...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and a Board-One Clash Nobody Has ConfirmedOn the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, before the round-four team sheet...
European Club Cup in Budva: 108 Teams, One 2715 Average and a Headline From Another CountryAt 1 a.m. the Budva scoreboard was a file on my laptop and a guess. The...
27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, One Time Lag: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Is Actually SellingTwenty-seven. That is the number the 225th issue of ChessBase Magazine hangs...