Chess
Budva in the Headline, the Elephant Gambit on the Board: Three of the Course's Four 'Advantages' Are Surprise Assets
Before Budapest: Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Experiment Is a Calendar Fight, Not a Rating One
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average and a 0.45 Board-Point Gap — Where the 'Favourite' Tag Gets Stuck
The 5.e5 Ledger: A Sharp Italian Sideline and a Headline Selling a Different Story
A Benko Gambit Review and a Fritz 20 Ad: Two Different Products in One Article
Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Experiment: A Rating-Reform Claim Without a Rating Event
Budva in the Headline, the Elephant Gambit on the Board: Three of the Course's Four 'Advantages' Are Surprise Assets"The European Club Cup kicks off in Budva." The sentence sits at the top of a...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average and a 0.45 Board-Point Gap — Where the 'Favourite' Tag Gets StuckThe tournament entry list records 108 open teams. Of these, only five remain ...
The 5.e5 Ledger: A Sharp Italian Sideline and a Headline Selling a Different StoryThe ledger failed on the first page. The title read: "Endgame Magic #340 —...
A Benko Gambit Review and a Fritz 20 Ad: Two Different Products in One ArticleA Benko Gambit Review and a Fritz 20 Ad: Two Different Products in One Articl...
Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Experiment: A Rating-Reform Claim Without a Rating EventAt first glance, the announcement of the Total Chess World Championship Tour...
Before Budapest: Total Chess's 'Fast Classic' Experiment Is a Calendar Fight, Not a Rating OneAn announcement dated August 29, 2026, states that the pilot event of the Tot...
European Club Cup 2026: A 2715 Average Buys Half a Board Point, Not a TitleTwenty-five teams sit on 2/2 after two rounds, and that number is the one tha...
A Product Review Caught Between the Benko Gambit and Fritz 20: Where the Claims Are There and the Evidence Is NotThe title says it — "The Modern Benko Gambit: A Full Repertoire Against 1.d4 ...
The 9...a5 Claim: A Technical Audit of the Low-Density Mar del Plata Branch Against the Bayonet AttackIn an academy room in Bangalore last month I asked a sixteen-year-old student...
Bodhana Sivanandan in the Title, Italian 5.e5 in the Body: Auditing an Instructional PackageA single catalogue entry is carrying two different products. The title reads...
The Hour of the Seconds: In the Mar del Plata, Is 9...a5 the Bayonet's Cure or a Seller's Alibi?The blurb arrived in my Chicago inbox on a Friday morning while the coffee wa...