Chess
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak to Win Fourth US Chess Championship
Chess Prodigy at 11: The IM Title, But the Clock and the Foundation Still Need a Story
FritzTrainer Najdorf Update Review: Five Lines in 60 Minutes — Enough for Which Rating Band?
An Eleven-Year-Old Filled the International Master Standard on Board One: 5.5/7 and a 2,465 Performance Rating
Prison Chess Got Its First Continental Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoreboard Nobody Printed
FritzTrainer Najdorf Update Review: Five Lines in 60 Minutes — Enough for Which Rating Band?Hook That evening at the club, a player rated around 1,800 turned his laptop...
An Eleven-Year-Old Filled the International Master Standard on Board One: 5.5/7 and a 2,465 Performance RatingLate on the final evening, board one. The player sitting there had the black...
Prison Chess Got Its First Continental Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoreboard Nobody PrintedAt two in the morning on 13 May 2026 I opened three tabs: FIDE's website, the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and the Annotation Load on Four NamesLast week I opened the game list for ChessBase Magazine #225 and did what I d...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and an Undated Review: Auditing the Najdorf UpdateThe product page carried three numbers. Runtime: sixty minutes. Coverage: fiv...
An IM Claim at Eleven and a 2,465 Performance — Check the Timeline Before You Print the RecordFinal round, 23 October, board one. Black pieces, a gambit line, a pawn won, ...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and a Missing Year: Pricing Daniel King's Najdorf Repertoire UpdateA June afternoon in Delhi. A fifteen-year-old with a 2180 FIDE rating sits at...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak to Win Fourth US Chess ChampionshipIn a tiebreak room, the clock is the first thing you hear. At the St. Louis...
Chess Prodigy at 11: The IM Title, But the Clock and the Foundation Still Need a StoryIn a cold hall in Saint Petersburg, an 11-year-old girl sitting at board one...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — The Board-One Draw Decides Less Than It LooksOn Tuesday, 20 October 2026, with three rounds complete in the open section o...