Chess
The Scandinavian Defense: 60 Minutes, an Unnamed Carlsen Game, and the Illusion of 'White Cannot Get an Advantage'
Carlsen's 'humans are not that good' line is not modesty — it is a scouting report on himself
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Settled in a Tiebreak — and the Record Still Has No Date
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Data Gap: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess Championship
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Ledger, and the Training Course Locked Inside the News
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Settled in a Tiebreak — and the Record Still Has No DateThe smaller the increment on the clock, the less the game is chess and the mo...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Data Gap: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess Championship77 teams. Five continents. Three sections—Open, Women's, and Youth. An event...
The Scandinavian Defense: 60 Minutes, an Unnamed Carlsen Game, and the Illusion of 'White Cannot Get an Advantage'An unnamed game, an unnamed opponent, an unverified date — and on those, an...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Ledger, and the Training Course Locked Inside the NewsThe last tiebreak game ended, the clock stopped, and a name was appended to t...
Carlsen's 'Humans Are Not That Good at Chess' Line and the $20 Million Question: A Method Audit Before Budapest"We have discovered that humans are not that good at chess, and there is stil...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Halo, the Club Player's Risk, and a Missing HeadlineSixty minutes. That was the number that stopped me last week — not from a...
European Club Cup: The Scoreboard Says Perfect, the Transitions Say OtherwiseHook A European Club Cup report landed on my desk last week. The headline was...
A FIDE President in the Headline, a Training Engine in the Body: The File Nobody OpenedThere were two presidents in the headline: one of an international chess...
European Club Cup: A 'Perfect' Claim, and a Scotch Advertisement on the Same PageLast week I opened a page whose headline read: “European Club Cup: Novy Bor a...
Carlsen's 'humans are not that good' line is not modesty — it is a scouting report on himselfChennai, November 2026. Four cameras were pointed at the board, two of them...
The 'FIDE News' About Timur Turlov Contained No Chess — Only a FRITZ 20 AdvertisementAt 1:40 in the morning in Secunderabad, a forwarded link arrived: 'FIDE...
108 and 22 in Budva: The European Club Cup Story Sits in the Column With No Rating At AllBefore I opened the file I assumed I was going to Barcelona. The headline was...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Data Gap: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess Championship77 teams. Five continents. Three sections—Open, Women's, and Youth. An event...
The Scandinavian Defense: 60 Minutes, an Unnamed Carlsen Game, and the Illusion of 'White Cannot Get an Advantage'An unnamed game, an unnamed opponent, an unverified date — and on those, an...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Ledger, and the Training Course Locked Inside the NewsThe last tiebreak game ended, the clock stopped, and a name was appended to t...
Carlsen's 'Humans Are Not That Good at Chess' Line and the $20 Million Question: A Method Audit Before Budapest"We have discovered that humans are not that good at chess, and there is stil...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Halo, the Club Player's Risk, and a Missing HeadlineSixty minutes. That was the number that stopped me last week — not from a...
European Club Cup: The Scoreboard Says Perfect, the Transitions Say OtherwiseHook A European Club Cup report landed on my desk last week. The headline was...
A FIDE President in the Headline, a Training Engine in the Body: The File Nobody OpenedThere were two presidents in the headline: one of an international chess...
European Club Cup: A 'Perfect' Claim, and a Scotch Advertisement on the Same PageLast week I opened a page whose headline read: “European Club Cup: Novy Bor a...
Carlsen's 'humans are not that good' line is not modesty — it is a scouting report on himselfChennai, November 2026. Four cameras were pointed at the board, two of them...
The 'FIDE News' About Timur Turlov Contained No Chess — Only a FRITZ 20 AdvertisementAt 1:40 in the morning in Secunderabad, a forwarded link arrived: 'FIDE...
108 and 22 in Budva: The European Club Cup Story Sits in the Column With No Rating At AllBefore I opened the file I assumed I was going to Barcelona. The headline was...