Chess
77 Teams, Five Continents, and One Empty Column — Auditing the Prisoners' Chess Championship
Capablanca's 2026 Gold and a DVD's 'Antidote' Marketing: The Real King's Indian Fight Is Memory vs Judgment
The Maintenance Economy of the Sicilian Najdorf: Sixty Minutes and the Invisible Budget of Opening Theory
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Big Signal in Short Games
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and an Article With No Board In It
The First Continental Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Document Nobody Has Opened
Capablanca's 2026 Gold and a DVD's 'Antidote' Marketing: The Real King's Indian Fight Is Memory vs JudgmentHook A page landed on my desk last week that made me stop and read twice. The...
The Maintenance Economy of the Sicilian Najdorf: Sixty Minutes and the Invisible Budget of Opening TheoryIn a Pune club last month I opened a sixty-minute downloaded training video,...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and One Empty Column — Auditing the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipThat fortnight in May 2026 brought an unusual story into the chess world. FID...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Big Signal in Short GamesThis number did not come from a standings table, nor from a live rating list....
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and an Article With No Board In ItWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in the tiebreak and won his fourth US Chess...
The First Continental Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Document Nobody Has OpenedOne night in August 2026. The final board of FIDE's Online Olympiad — 163 tea...
One Hour, Two Openings, and the Illusion of 'Underrated': A Technical Audit of an Elephant Gambit CourseThe most honest thing on any chess product page is never its headline — it is...
The Elephant Gambit Receipt: Sixty Minutes, a Mislabelled Headline, and the Numbers That Don't ReconcileThere is a file open on my desk. The name is plain — prod_audit_2026.xlsx....
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks for a Fourth US Chess Championship — The Win Was Made by the Format, Not the MovesThe round-robin at the Saint Louis Chess Club ended with Wesley So and Fabian...
The Maintenance Economy of the Sicilian Najdorf: Sixty Minutes and the Invisible Budget of Opening TheoryIn a Pune club last month I opened a sixty-minute downloaded training video,...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and One Empty Column — Auditing the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipThat fortnight in May 2026 brought an unusual story into the chess world. FID...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Big Signal in Short GamesThis number did not come from a standings table, nor from a live rating list....
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and an Article With No Board In ItWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in the tiebreak and won his fourth US Chess...
The First Continental Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Document Nobody Has OpenedOne night in August 2026. The final board of FIDE's Online Olympiad — 163 tea...
One Hour, Two Openings, and the Illusion of 'Underrated': A Technical Audit of an Elephant Gambit CourseThe most honest thing on any chess product page is never its headline — it is...
The Elephant Gambit Receipt: Sixty Minutes, a Mislabelled Headline, and the Numbers That Don't ReconcileThere is a file open on my desk. The name is plain — prod_audit_2026.xlsx....
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks for a Fourth US Chess Championship — The Win Was Made by the Format, Not the MovesThe round-robin at the Saint Louis Chess Club ended with Wesley So and Fabian...