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Kasparov and the Scotch: How a Forgotten Opening Became a Weapon of Mass Destruction
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defense: An Escape Route Without Evidence
104 Matches, 16 Cities, the Final 20 Minutes: The 2026 Cycle and the War Against the Clock
Three Moves That Flipped a Team Match: Nihal Sarin, a +2 Advantage, and India’s Test of Nerve
One Hour of Scandinavian Defense: A Neat Promise and the Middlegame BillLate one evening at a small riverside chess club, a thirty-four-year-old...
Kasparov and the Scotch: How a Forgotten Opening Became a Weapon of Mass DestructionIn the world of elite chess, there are openings that seem to have been buried...
One Game, Two Names: A Data Lesson from Jacobson - VakhidovIn an opening-analysis video published on June 25, 2026, the title states...
The Move 5.e5! and the Story of a Writer's PatienceIn three decades of chess commentary for VTC, I learned one thing: behind eve...
Behind the Transfer Window: When the Najdorf Becomes a Recurring Update ProductA sixty-minute update. Five variation clusters. One name: Daniel King. Amid t...
Daniel King and the Najdorf Update: Opening Theory as a Renewed StreamLuzhniki night, the old bird understood that landing is also a way of flying....
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian Defense: An Escape Route Without EvidenceOne August evening I sat down with an opening booklet of barely forty pages. ...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Promise No One Has VerifiedTwenty-seven short games sit neatly inside the "Special" section of ChessBase...
Kasparov's 2026 Scotch Game and the 'FIDE Ratings' Title That Never ExistedOn a chessboard in New York and Lyon in the autumn of 2026, Garry Kasparov...
India Wins the Chess Olympiad: The Blueprint of a Generation That Did Not WaitBudapest, the final round of the 45th Chess Olympiad, mid-September 2026. Ind...
India Wins Chess Olympiad for the First Time: When a Nation's Memory Rises in BudapestI thought I had been exiled from the chessboard, but the chessboard took me...
Budapest 2026: When India First Struck Olympiad Gold and a Generation Wrote Its Own HistoryOn board one, Gukesh D held the white pieces, and the only thing I remember...
The Scotch Opening: From the Ghost of 2026 to Adrian Mikhalchishin's 60-Minute Blueprint for Neutralising ItIn the autumn of 2026, in New York and Lyon, Garry Kasparov held the white...
Game 14 in Singapore: Gukesh Dommaraju Wins the World Title at 18 as Ding Liren Falls in a Rook EndgameThree in the morning in Da Nang, the tea long gone cold. I put on headphones ...
The Chess Transfer Market: Flags Change Hands, Elo Ratings Do NotThe Chess Transfer Market: Flags Change Hands, Elo Ratings Do Not On the...
104 Matches, 16 Cities, the Final 20 Minutes: The 2026 Cycle and the War Against the ClockMinute 88 at Lusail, December 9, 2026. Argentina led the Netherlands 2-0, and...
FRITZ 20: A Chess Training Revolution or a Turning Point for Artificial Intelligence?I remember that night, when Hanoi had fallen asleep, I sat in front of my...
9...a5 and the Missing Data: What a King's Indian Defense DVD Never Tells YouOn Thursday evening I opened the analysis file the desk had forwarded and rea...