Chess
Italian Game 5.e5: The Real Power of Transposition, Sveshnikov's Seal, and the Gap Between Headline and Content
Nine Claims, Zero Games: Auditing the 9...a5 'Antidote' to the King's Indian Bayonet
Najdorf Maintenance, a NATO Headline: The Real Transaction Buried Inside Türkiye's 'Triumph'
The Hour of the Seconds: Mar del Plata's 9...a5 — Antidote to the Bayonet Attack or Just a Mirage?
Nine Claims, Zero Games: Auditing the 9...a5 'Antidote' to the King's Indian BayonetNine Claims, Zero Games: Auditing the 9...a5 'Antidote' to the King's Indian...
Najdorf Maintenance, a NATO Headline: The Real Transaction Buried Inside Türkiye's 'Triumph'What I found in the Jurong West press box was not silence but arithmetic. Mar...
The Hour of the Seconds: Mar del Plata's 9...a5 — Antidote to the Bayonet Attack or Just a Mirage?In recent months, a new debate has heated up around the Mar del Plata variati...
Total Chess in Budapest: Eleven Days, Four Names, and an Unaccounted 'Unified Rating' ClaimIn November 2026 I spent six days in the tribune of the Chennai playing hall...
Headline Says 'Unified Rating System', Body Carries Not One Rating Number: The Real Question at the Budapest Pilot Is the Time ControlOn 29 August 2026 the Total Chess announcement stopped at my desk for one...
European Club Cup: The Arithmetic of 'Comfortable Wins', 27 Miniatures, and a Scoreline Nobody PrintedOn Monday morning I opened the logbook, wrote the date, and looked at the...
The Benko Gambit Review That Wasn't: GM Sipke Ernst's Full Repertoire Against 1.d4, and the Story the Title Left OutThe Benko Gambit Review That Wasn't: GM Sipke Ernst's Full Repertoire Against...
Italian Game 5.e5: The Real Power of Transposition, Sveshnikov's Seal, and the Gap Between Headline and ContentA February evening in Moscow: minus twelve outside the window, a bowl of tea...
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? One Product Page, Two Theses — and an Audit That Isn't Finished"Two different products have been placed on a single page, and neither one of...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Four Names Confirmed, Prize Fund and the 'Unified Rating System' Both MissingThe release went out on 29 August 2026. It carried a date — 10 to 21 November...