Chess
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Where the Opening Ends and the Middlegame Is Left Open2026-10-20A weekend rapid game in a coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street finished...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: the real edge of a rare line is lower memorisation cost, not objective superiority2026-10-19A DVD case, four pages of promotional copy, and exactly one move named...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 Doesn't Exist: Lessons From a Chess Course Sales Page2026-10-17In many years of tracking chess opening data, I've learned one rule: when a...
Karsten Müller: Endgame Authority and the Credibility Debt of the Chess Training Industry2026-10-13"Pin and win" — four words on a product-introduction page stopped me at one i...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: 27 Miniatures and the Problem of Reading a Training Product2026-10-07In my small office in Mumbai, I have a habit that a few colleagues have calle...
Modern Italian, the 5.e5 thrust, and the line between memory and understandingThe game on board four at a weekend open in Binh Duong ended after twenty-thr...
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Where the Opening Ends and the Middlegame Is Left OpenA weekend rapid game in a coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street finished...
Modern Italian 5.e5!: A 60-Minute Video, a Mismatched Title and a Data VoidMoscow, winter. On my desk sits the data package for a newly released chess...
Modern Italian 5 e5!: the 60-minute lesson and the crack between title and dataIn the third-floor edit room, the ceiling fan turns slowly, its creak steady ...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: the real edge of a rare line is lower memorisation cost, not objective superiorityA DVD case, four pages of promotional copy, and exactly one move named...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Training Catalogue InsideA headline that promises results, a body that delivers a catalogue On a Tuesd...
Fourteen Seconds Before Move Nine: Why an Opening DVD Is Selling Silence Instead of AdvantageThere is a moment in a tournament hall that no camera captures: the player wi...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 Doesn't Exist: Lessons From a Chess Course Sales PageIn many years of tracking chess opening data, I've learned one rule: when a...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Empty Data Map Behind a Promotional ClaimOn that promotional page, the headline read "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027....
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: An Opening Product and the Limits of a PromiseIn a chess cafe on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in Saigon, a student rated...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and a Headline That Does Not Match the BodyIn the latest round of the US Chess Championship, Woodward, a young player...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Topples Caruana, Lee Pulls AheadIn a playing hall so quiet you could hear the chess clock tick off each secon...
When FIDE Shortens the Clock, the Scandinavian Becomes the Club Player's ShortcutA Tuesday night in Saint Petersburg, minus eighteen outside, the heating pipe...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Weapon for Club Chess PlayersIn the world of chess, the battle against the explosion of opening theory is...
Chess Bundesliga 2026/87: When a Relegation Spot Was Decided by the Clock, Not the MovesIn the records of the 2026/87 German Chess Bundesliga season, there is one...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: An Unverified Victory and the Question of How Chess RemembersThat day, when the final piece was placed on the board, Yu Yangyi did not sta...
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Where the Opening Ends and the Middlegame Is Left OpenA weekend rapid game in a coffee shop on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street finished...
Modern Italian 5.e5!: A 60-Minute Video, a Mismatched Title and a Data VoidMoscow, winter. On my desk sits the data package for a newly released chess...
Modern Italian 5 e5!: the 60-minute lesson and the crack between title and dataIn the third-floor edit room, the ceiling fan turns slowly, its creak steady ...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: the real edge of a rare line is lower memorisation cost, not objective superiorityA DVD case, four pages of promotional copy, and exactly one move named...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Training Catalogue InsideA headline that promises results, a body that delivers a catalogue On a Tuesd...
Fourteen Seconds Before Move Nine: Why an Opening DVD Is Selling Silence Instead of AdvantageThere is a moment in a tournament hall that no camera captures: the player wi...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 Doesn't Exist: Lessons From a Chess Course Sales PageIn many years of tracking chess opening data, I've learned one rule: when a...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Empty Data Map Behind a Promotional ClaimOn that promotional page, the headline read "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027....
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: An Opening Product and the Limits of a PromiseIn a chess cafe on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in Saigon, a student rated...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and a Headline That Does Not Match the BodyIn the latest round of the US Chess Championship, Woodward, a young player...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Topples Caruana, Lee Pulls AheadIn a playing hall so quiet you could hear the chess clock tick off each secon...
When FIDE Shortens the Clock, the Scandinavian Becomes the Club Player's ShortcutA Tuesday night in Saint Petersburg, minus eighteen outside, the heating pipe...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving Weapon for Club Chess PlayersIn the world of chess, the battle against the explosion of opening theory is...
Chess Bundesliga 2026/87: When a Relegation Spot Was Decided by the Clock, Not the MovesIn the records of the 2026/87 German Chess Bundesliga season, there is one...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: An Unverified Victory and the Question of How Chess RemembersThat day, when the final piece was placed on the board, Yu Yangyi did not sta...
