Chess
A NATO Headline, A Najdorf Story: The Report Filed On The Wrong Page
Scandinavian Defense, a Borrowed Carlsen, and a Broken Headline: Auditing the Sixty-Minute Course
European Club Cup: Bayegan Favourites at 2715 Average, But the Title Will Be Decided on Boards 4-6
A DVD Standing at the Edge of Budva: The Elephant Gambit Business Hidden in the European Club Cup Headlines
ChessA NATO Headline, A Najdorf Story: The Report Filed On The Wrong PageThe headline arrives first; the story comes later. That order has not changed...
ChessA DVD Standing at the Edge of Budva: The Elephant Gambit Business Hidden in the European Club Cup HeadlinesBudva is in the headline, but the rest of the page is selling a 60-minute DVD...
ChessScandinavian Defense, a Borrowed Carlsen, and a Broken Headline: Auditing the Sixty-Minute CourseIn the first week of January 2026 a page landed in my bookmarks with this...
ChessCarlsen's AI Line Is Noise; the Real Story Is His Rewritten Calendar and the Prize GapOn October 21, 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS carried a long interview with...
ChessA Benko Gambit Review or a Fritz 20 Ad? Where the Title and the Copy Describe Two Different ProductsWhen I open a review, the first thing I check is whether the title and the bo...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Bayegan Favourites at 2715 Average, But the Title Will Be Decided on Boards 4-6In team-match chess, titles are decided not by average rating but by stabilit...
ChessThe Club Cup's 'Comfortable Wins' and the Scorecard Missing From the Magazine PageLate last week a magazine page lay open on my desk — issue 225 of ChessBase...
ChessTotal Chess and the 'Unified Rating' Claim: Where the Rulebook Comes First, the Headline Comes SecondWhen the first clock button is pressed in a Budapest hall on 10 November 2026...
ChessFIDE President's Cyprus Visit and the FRITZ 20 Advertisement: Investigating an Unsourced StoryA protocol meeting took place in Nicosia. The FIDE President met the Presiden...
ChessBenko Gambit or Fritz 20? When a Chess Review's Title and Body Fight Each OtherA review title about the Benko Gambit, and four bullet points about a trainin...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: A 2715 Average Doesn't Win Titles — Half a Board Point on Boards 4-6 DoesHook Two rounds done, 108 teams, and the count of teams on 2/2 sits at 25....
ChessBenko Gambit and FRITZ 20: One Review, Two Products, Five ZerosA review file opened on my Delhi desk on a Monday morning. The title read: 'T...
ChessThe Headline Promised Comfortable Wins. The Score Sheet Was Empty: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225The headline on the page was set large: "European Club Cup: Comfortable wins...
ChessTwo Verdicts on One Page: The Benko Gambit Review and Fritz 20 — When a Headline and Its Bullets Sell Different ProductsThe review copy arrived on a Monday afternoon. A PDF, twelve pages, no press...
ChessA DVD Standing at the Edge of Budva: The Elephant Gambit Business Hidden in the European Club Cup HeadlinesBudva is in the headline, but the rest of the page is selling a 60-minute DVD...
ChessScandinavian Defense, a Borrowed Carlsen, and a Broken Headline: Auditing the Sixty-Minute CourseIn the first week of January 2026 a page landed in my bookmarks with this...
ChessCarlsen's AI Line Is Noise; the Real Story Is His Rewritten Calendar and the Prize GapOn October 21, 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS carried a long interview with...
ChessA Benko Gambit Review or a Fritz 20 Ad? Where the Title and the Copy Describe Two Different ProductsWhen I open a review, the first thing I check is whether the title and the bo...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Bayegan Favourites at 2715 Average, But the Title Will Be Decided on Boards 4-6In team-match chess, titles are decided not by average rating but by stabilit...
ChessThe Club Cup's 'Comfortable Wins' and the Scorecard Missing From the Magazine PageLate last week a magazine page lay open on my desk — issue 225 of ChessBase...
ChessTotal Chess and the 'Unified Rating' Claim: Where the Rulebook Comes First, the Headline Comes SecondWhen the first clock button is pressed in a Budapest hall on 10 November 2026...
ChessFIDE President's Cyprus Visit and the FRITZ 20 Advertisement: Investigating an Unsourced StoryA protocol meeting took place in Nicosia. The FIDE President met the Presiden...
ChessBenko Gambit or Fritz 20? When a Chess Review's Title and Body Fight Each OtherA review title about the Benko Gambit, and four bullet points about a trainin...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: A 2715 Average Doesn't Win Titles — Half a Board Point on Boards 4-6 DoesHook Two rounds done, 108 teams, and the count of teams on 2/2 sits at 25....
ChessBenko Gambit and FRITZ 20: One Review, Two Products, Five ZerosA review file opened on my Delhi desk on a Monday morning. The title read: 'T...
ChessThe Headline Promised Comfortable Wins. The Score Sheet Was Empty: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225The headline on the page was set large: "European Club Cup: Comfortable wins...
ChessTwo Verdicts on One Page: The Benko Gambit Review and Fritz 20 — When a Headline and Its Bullets Sell Different ProductsThe review copy arrived on a Monday afternoon. A PDF, twelve pages, no press...