Chess
The Move That Was Never Played: When a "Review" Reviews Nothing
Woodward Takes Down Caruana at the US Chess Championship: The Game Nobody Wrote Down
The Elephant Gambit in the Bundesliga: When a Surprise Weapon Is Sold as an Invention
ChessBase Signs Kostya Kavutskiy: A Content Bet in a Saturated Chess Market
Behind the Saudi Shock: When Data Speaks Against the CrowdI rewound the Saudi Arabia–Argentina tape from the 2026 World Cup, stopped it...
The Move That Was Never Played: When a "Review" Reviews NothingThere is a category of analytical error in chess that I learned from myself,...
Woodward Takes Down Caruana at the US Chess Championship: The Game Nobody Wrote DownIn the press room of the US Chess Championship there is a sound I needed near...
Behind the headline 'Woodward takes down Caruana': an opening course and the amateur chess marketThat evening, opening the news page for the US Chess Championships, I ran int...
6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners: 140 Teams and a Map Not Yet DrawnIn a brief built on just two data points, the most telling part is usually no...
The Scandinavian Defense and the Time-Saving Opening Boom: When the Clock Reshapes Chess TheoryIn a small chess club tucked deep in an alley in Chengdu, I once sat for thre...
Chess Opening Science: The Scandinavian Defense and the Time-Saving Race in the Era of Exploding TheoryThe Scandinavian Defense, also known as the Center Counter Defense, is one of...
The Elephant Gambit in the Bundesliga: When a Surprise Weapon Is Sold as an InventionThis season's Bundesliga left behind a game I rewound four times. Not because...
The Scotch Opening: Kasparov's Weapon and an Unverified Promise of NeutralizationI remember one evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, Da...
The Scotch Opening and the Memory of 2026: When an Opening Refuses to AgeThe Scotch Opening and the Memory of 2026: When an Opening Refuses to Age I...
5.e5 and Opening Superstition: Why a Romantic Gambit Still Thrives at Club LevelOn the fifth move, White pushes the pawn to e5. In the analysis rooms of ches...
ChessBase Signs Kostya Kavutskiy: A Content Bet in a Saturated Chess MarketOn 9 December 2026 — or 12 September 2026, depending on how one reads the...
ChessBase and Kostya Kavutskiy: The Quiet Race in the Chess Course MarketThere is a moment that anyone who has ever studied chess seriously remembers:...
ChessBase Signs Kostya Kavutskiy: A Transfer Deal That Never Happens on the BoardDa Nang, a rainy evening in early September. In a corner cafe on Nguyen Chi...
