Chess
One Plan for Black Against Seven Less-Theoretical Openings: The Promise and Limits of Valeri Lilov’s Video SeriesAfter White opens with 1.d4, many Black players prepare for the Slav,...
Beyond the Tiebreak: Sasikiran's Bavarian Championship Triumph and the Real Test of FRITZ 20 in Modern Chess TrainingBeyond the Tiebreak: Sasikiran's Bavarian Championship Triumph and the Real...
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Bigger Questions Behind the Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 MinutesPetroff by Name, Scandinavian by Description? The Identity Problem Behind a...
Chess Report Stalls Before Analysis as Stage-2 Receives Zero Factual InputsHook: The Board Could Not Be Set Up The most important moment in a chess...
Wei Yi's 'Masterpiece' in the Keymer System: The Ledger That Doesn't Balance Between Title and MovesLast week I opened the description page of a coaching video looking for one...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Plan Sold Under Hort's NameOn the third table of a hall in Purana Paltan, a gentleman's notebook held...
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Gambit: The Arithmetic of a Sixty-Minute RepertoireI begin with a count. A chess product's promotional page carries the headline...
A Turkish Trophy in the Headline, a Najdorf Patch in the BodyAt 2:40 in the morning in a Mymensingh room, the file on the screen carried a...
The Move List Nobody Could Find: An Olympiad King Walk, Sveshnikov's Line, and a Weapon Sold to Club PlayersChennai, August 2026. Two in the morning in the press centre of the 44th Ches...
5.e5!: The Club Board's Cheapest Weapon, and Its Most Expensive GapTwo twenty-five in the morning. In a bedroom in Mymensingh, a decade-old lapt...


