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ChessGold in Buenos Aires 2026, and a DVD on 9...a5: where the headline and the body stop honouring the same contractLast week my scraper pulled a page. The headline read: "A farewell triumph:...
ChessPrague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Full Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225I did not read the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 in one pass. I...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Auditing the Table After Three Rounds, and the Unconfirmed Board-One ClashHook On the night of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, I opened the open-section tabl...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Tied After Three Rounds, and Not a Single Move on the RecordTuesday, 20 October 2026. The round-four pairings for the European Club Cup a...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — and a Top Board No Table ShowsThe standings sheet opened on the Delhi desk late on Monday night and within...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and a Headline That Doesn't ReconcileEleven teams sat on the same match points in the open section of the European...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Novy Bor's 'Perfect' Score and the Club-Chess Economy Buried Under ItLate last week I opened the European Club Cup crosstable. Two names sat at th...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Four Annotators, Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Changing Economy of Chess MediaThe first clue was not in any annotation. It was on the inside of the back...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense and the Sixty-Minute Promise: Carlsen's Name, and What a Club Player Actually NeedsAt eleven at night in Pune, a club player opened his laptop. A sixty-minute...
ChessOne Headline, Two Stories: Auditing a FIDE Presidency Claim Wrapped Around a Fritz 20 AdvertisementA link landed in my inbox on a Monday morning with a headline that looked tid...
ChessThe Move a Player Explains Himself: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Wages of AnnotationThere is an odd object in my room in Chennai. A thin paper booklet, and on it...
