Chess
The Question Mark After 3.Bc4: An 11-Year-Old on Board One and the Silence of the Chess World
9...a5: The Strategic Antidote to the King's Indian Bayonet Attack
The Trap of the Empty Report: Vietnamese Chess and the Lesson of Verifying Data
The Lost Royal Road: IM Valeri Lilov and the Puzzle of Six Videos for Seven Systems
The Question Mark After 3.Bc4: An 11-Year-Old on Board One and the Silence of the Chess WorldThere is a question mark in the title of that interview. It is not at the end...
The 60-Minute Najdorf Update: When Chess Sells 'Patches' Instead of KnowledgeOne afternoon in Da Nang, I downloaded Daniel King's Najdorf update onto my...
Declining 2.c4: When White Turns the Opening into a Fortress and Black Must Learn Again from ZeroI remember a Thursday evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Stree...
The King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move and the Strategic Gamble Against the MachineIn 2026, in the final round of an open tournament in Shanghai, I stayed behin...
9...a5: The Strategic Antidote to the King's Indian Bayonet AttackAn opening DVD titled “ChessMom returns: Supporting mothers on and off the...
Wu Lei and 6.3 km Without the Ball: When Pressing Data Rewrites the Name of a Forgotten WingerThere are players who are forgotten, but data never forgets them. I once...
The Trap of the Empty Report: Vietnamese Chess and the Lesson of Verifying DataA report, twelve pages long. Twelve pages of tables, diagrams, notations, and...
The Gap After 1.d4: IM Valeri Lilov's Six Videos and Black's Problem Against Theory-Avoidance SystemsIn a small coffee shop on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Trang, I sat behin...
The Lost Royal Road: IM Valeri Lilov and the Puzzle of Six Videos for Seven SystemsLate in the evening in Shanghai, a friend sent me a link to a new course by I...
The Scotch Game and the Name Egon Mattaaq: When a Headline Remembers a Man the Body ForgotThat Wednesday afternoon, in the training room of a small chess club, I sat...
Poland – India women’s Achilles heel at the Olympiad: When history repeats itself through silent playRound 5 of the Chess Olympiad ended with another shock named Poland. The Indi...
Rosenstein and the September 26 FIDE Vote in Samarkand: Why a President Cannot Deliver Carlsen AloneOn September 26, at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, FIDE member federations will vote...
Samarkand, Nine 4-0 Scorelines, and the Advertising Veil Behind the ScoreboardOn the electronic board of a hall in Samarkand, one could count nine identica...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures and the Question of a Chess Player's MemoryThere is a habit I have kept for nearly four decades, since the early days...
The 5.e5 Move and Faith Without Data: Letters from the Opening LaboratoryI still remember that October evening in a small Da Nang cafe on Nguyen Chi...
When an Empty Data Table Still Looks Beautiful: The Silent Deception of Chess in the Analytics EraOn a December morning in 2026, in Singapore, as the eleventh game of the Worl...
When Sports News Becomes an Ad: The Elephant Gambit Story at the Global Chess LeagueOn my old stool in front of the screen, I open an article with a promising...
2716 Elo at Fifteen: Erdogmus and the Test of Turkey's Whole Chess SystemThe board is still set, the white pieces have not yet made their first move....
The 60-Minute Najdorf Update: When Chess Sells 'Patches' Instead of KnowledgeOne afternoon in Da Nang, I downloaded Daniel King's Najdorf update onto my...
Declining 2.c4: When White Turns the Opening into a Fortress and Black Must Learn Again from ZeroI remember a Thursday evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Stree...
The King's Indian Defense: The 9...a5 Move and the Strategic Gamble Against the MachineIn 2026, in the final round of an open tournament in Shanghai, I stayed behin...
9...a5: The Strategic Antidote to the King's Indian Bayonet AttackAn opening DVD titled “ChessMom returns: Supporting mothers on and off the...
Wu Lei and 6.3 km Without the Ball: When Pressing Data Rewrites the Name of a Forgotten WingerThere are players who are forgotten, but data never forgets them. I once...
The Trap of the Empty Report: Vietnamese Chess and the Lesson of Verifying DataA report, twelve pages long. Twelve pages of tables, diagrams, notations, and...
The Gap After 1.d4: IM Valeri Lilov's Six Videos and Black's Problem Against Theory-Avoidance SystemsIn a small coffee shop on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Trang, I sat behin...
The Lost Royal Road: IM Valeri Lilov and the Puzzle of Six Videos for Seven SystemsLate in the evening in Shanghai, a friend sent me a link to a new course by I...
The Scotch Game and the Name Egon Mattaaq: When a Headline Remembers a Man the Body ForgotThat Wednesday afternoon, in the training room of a small chess club, I sat...
Poland – India women’s Achilles heel at the Olympiad: When history repeats itself through silent playRound 5 of the Chess Olympiad ended with another shock named Poland. The Indi...
Rosenstein and the September 26 FIDE Vote in Samarkand: Why a President Cannot Deliver Carlsen AloneOn September 26, at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, FIDE member federations will vote...
Samarkand, Nine 4-0 Scorelines, and the Advertising Veil Behind the ScoreboardOn the electronic board of a hall in Samarkand, one could count nine identica...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures and the Question of a Chess Player's MemoryThere is a habit I have kept for nearly four decades, since the early days...
The 5.e5 Move and Faith Without Data: Letters from the Opening LaboratoryI still remember that October evening in a small Da Nang cafe on Nguyen Chi...
When an Empty Data Table Still Looks Beautiful: The Silent Deception of Chess in the Analytics EraOn a December morning in 2026, in Singapore, as the eleventh game of the Worl...
When Sports News Becomes an Ad: The Elephant Gambit Story at the Global Chess LeagueOn my old stool in front of the screen, I open an article with a promising...
2716 Elo at Fifteen: Erdogmus and the Test of Turkey's Whole Chess SystemThe board is still set, the white pieces have not yet made their first move....
