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Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, and the London System Repeats Its Claim
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet Nobody Kept
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds as Giri-Abdusattorov Looms in Round Four
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Board: The Arithmetic of a Sixty-Minute Claim
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, Four Self-Annotators and the Shifting Business Model of Chess Media
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round Four
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Is Maintenance, Not TheorySixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Is Maintenance, Not Theor...
The Ledger of Captive Chess: 77 Teams From Five Continents, Three Sections, and an Incomplete RecordThirteen May 2026. The first pawn moved in what FIDE and the organisers...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, and the London System Repeats Its ClaimBefore the tiebreak board is set up at the Saint Louis Chess Club, a small...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet Nobody KeptThe first clue was a box score nobody thought to keep. On 13 May 2026, when t...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds as Giri-Abdusattorov Looms in Round FourOne number was written eleven times on the standings sheet. Three rounds...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level, Two Perfect Scores, and a Verdict Written in Board PointsOctober 20, 2026, a Tuesday. The round-four pairings for the European Club Cu...
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Board: The Arithmetic of a Sixty-Minute ClaimIt was a February club night in Ahmedabad, four boards in a community hall an...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Was Decided on the Tiebreak Page — and the Coverage Filed Without a ScoresheetThe last thing that changed in that St. Louis hall was not a chess scoreboard...
Carlsen's 21 October Interview: The 'Humans Aren't That Good' Claim Holds — The Number Behind It Doesn't Exist YetOn 21 October, in an interview published by Marca and sourced from AS, Magnus...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, Four Self-Annotators and the Shifting Business Model of Chess Media27, 10, 3 — those are the only hard numbers in ChessBase's September release...
European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Are 'Perfect' — Two Stories Sharing One PageI open the page. The headline says Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect at...
The Wrong President on a Real Headline: How a FRITZ 20 Advertorial Exposed Chess Media's Verification GapA chess item circulated through the feeds over the past few days. The headlin...
The 1 A.M. Headline: A Wrong FIDE President's Name Sitting Above a FRITZ 20 AdvertisementIt was 1:07 a.m. The July heat had stalled outside the window, and in my hand...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round FourThree rounds. Eleven names. In the open section standings, eleven teams sit o...
A Wrong Name in the Headline, an Ad in the Body: The Medical Report of a Chess News ItemOne morning last week an item came off the wire onto my desk in Delhi. The...
The Ledger of Captive Chess: 77 Teams From Five Continents, Three Sections, and an Incomplete RecordThirteen May 2026. The first pawn moved in what FIDE and the organisers...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, and the London System Repeats Its ClaimBefore the tiebreak board is set up at the Saint Louis Chess Club, a small...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet Nobody KeptThe first clue was a box score nobody thought to keep. On 13 May 2026, when t...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds as Giri-Abdusattorov Looms in Round FourOne number was written eleven times on the standings sheet. Three rounds...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level, Two Perfect Scores, and a Verdict Written in Board PointsOctober 20, 2026, a Tuesday. The round-four pairings for the European Club Cu...
A Najdorf Label on an Elephant Board: The Arithmetic of a Sixty-Minute ClaimIt was a February club night in Ahmedabad, four boards in a community hall an...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Was Decided on the Tiebreak Page — and the Coverage Filed Without a ScoresheetThe last thing that changed in that St. Louis hall was not a chess scoreboard...
Carlsen's 21 October Interview: The 'Humans Aren't That Good' Claim Holds — The Number Behind It Doesn't Exist YetOn 21 October, in an interview published by Marca and sourced from AS, Magnus...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, Four Self-Annotators and the Shifting Business Model of Chess Media27, 10, 3 — those are the only hard numbers in ChessBase's September release...
European Club Cup: Novy Bor and SuperChess Are 'Perfect' — Two Stories Sharing One PageI open the page. The headline says Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect at...
The Wrong President on a Real Headline: How a FRITZ 20 Advertorial Exposed Chess Media's Verification GapA chess item circulated through the feeds over the past few days. The headlin...
The 1 A.M. Headline: A Wrong FIDE President's Name Sitting Above a FRITZ 20 AdvertisementIt was 1:07 a.m. The July heat had stalled outside the window, and in my hand...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round FourThree rounds. Eleven names. In the open section standings, eleven teams sit o...
A Wrong Name in the Headline, an Ad in the Body: The Medical Report of a Chess News ItemOne morning last week an item came off the wire onto my desk in Delhi. The...