Chess
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Missing Dataset of the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipOn 13 May 2026, when the first Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level, Two Teams Perfect — and a Headline That Does Not Match the Count20 October 2026, a Tuesday. Three rounds of the European Club Cup are complet...
Sixty Minutes of Gamble: An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf LabelSixty minutes. That is the entire runtime of Andrew Martin's new course. In...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — And a Headline the Scoresheet Does Not RecogniseThree rounds were done. The round-four pairings were drawn up. The report tha...
European Club Cup, Budva: 108 Open Teams, 22 Women's Teams, and a 2715 Average That Is Really a BudgetBarcelona was in the headline. Budva was in the body. I sat down to find the...
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Gambit Board: Geometry-Checking a 60-Minute Chess CourseThe title says 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation.' The body plays 1.e4 e5 2.N...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and a Clock That AgesChessBase Magazine #225 arrives in the September release with a small...
Timur Turlov Is Not the FIDE President: Auditing a Headline That Sold SoftwareLast week a headline landed in my inbox: “FIDE President Timur Turlov meets...
Rachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defense in the Body: A Forensic Audit of a Product ListingThe first file that opened that morning looked as ordinary as it was supposed...
A Rachel Li Headline, an Andrew Martin Body: Auditing the Scandinavian Defense ClaimTwenty-seven minutes past three. A headline dropped into the wire queue — a...
Three Rounds, Eleven Level Teams and a Board One Nobody Has ConfirmedHook 20 October 2026, a Tuesday. The round-four pairings for the European Clu...
Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay 'Perfect' at the European Club Cup — Match Points and Board Scores Are Not the Same ThingEight paragraphs. The first one carries the European Club Cup, Novy Bor and...
What 2715 Actually Means in Budva: The European Club Cup Entry List That Reads Like a Procurement LedgerA brief dated 19 October 2026 landed on my desk. The headline said Barcelona...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level, Two Teams Perfect — and a Headline That Does Not Match the Count20 October 2026, a Tuesday. Three rounds of the European Club Cup are complet...
Sixty Minutes of Gamble: An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf LabelSixty minutes. That is the entire runtime of Andrew Martin's new course. In...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — And a Headline the Scoresheet Does Not RecogniseThree rounds were done. The round-four pairings were drawn up. The report tha...
European Club Cup, Budva: 108 Open Teams, 22 Women's Teams, and a 2715 Average That Is Really a BudgetBarcelona was in the headline. Budva was in the body. I sat down to find the...
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Gambit Board: Geometry-Checking a 60-Minute Chess CourseThe title says 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation.' The body plays 1.e4 e5 2.N...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and a Clock That AgesChessBase Magazine #225 arrives in the September release with a small...
Timur Turlov Is Not the FIDE President: Auditing a Headline That Sold SoftwareLast week a headline landed in my inbox: “FIDE President Timur Turlov meets...
Rachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defense in the Body: A Forensic Audit of a Product ListingThe first file that opened that morning looked as ordinary as it was supposed...
A Rachel Li Headline, an Andrew Martin Body: Auditing the Scandinavian Defense ClaimTwenty-seven minutes past three. A headline dropped into the wire queue — a...
Three Rounds, Eleven Level Teams and a Board One Nobody Has ConfirmedHook 20 October 2026, a Tuesday. The round-four pairings for the European Clu...
Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay 'Perfect' at the European Club Cup — Match Points and Board Scores Are Not the Same ThingEight paragraphs. The first one carries the European Club Cup, Novy Bor and...
What 2715 Actually Means in Budva: The European Club Cup Entry List That Reads Like a Procurement LedgerA brief dated 19 October 2026 landed on my desk. The headline said Barcelona...
