Chess
The Elephant Gambit: Budva's Elite Club Cup and the Shopkeeping of an Unheard Opening Move
One File, Two Products: A Benko Gambit Title, a Fritz 20 Body, and the Unwatched Economics of Chess Content
European Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, and the Arithmetic Hidden Behind the Scoreboard
A Benko Gambit Headline, a FRITZ 20 Cargo: The Review Whose Two Scoresheets Disagree
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? The Identity Crisis of a Product Review
European Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, and the Arithmetic Hidden Behind the ScoreboardEuropean Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, and the Arithmetic...
A Benko Gambit Headline, a FRITZ 20 Cargo: The Review Whose Two Scoresheets DisagreeChennai, 2026, round nine of the Olympiad. A threefold-repetition claim came ...
The Elephant Gambit: Budva's Elite Club Cup and the Shopkeeping of an Unheard Opening MoveBudva, Montenegro — opening day of the European Club Cup. No board has a resu...
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? The Identity Crisis of a Product ReviewWhen I first saw the title of this review—'The Modern Benko Gambit: A Full...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye Triumph at NATO Chess Championship: A Headline Without a BodyMy first habit with any chess story is to read the headline the way I'd read ...
European Club Cup 2026: A 2715 Average Buys Only 0.06 Board Points Against the Strongest ChaserThree point five six. That is the number on which the 2026 European Club Cup ...
The Italian 5.e5 Line and the Title-Content Gap: An Audit of a Club WeaponThe file was labelled “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls with Bodhana...
One File, Two Products: A Benko Gambit Title, a Fritz 20 Body, and the Unwatched Economics of Chess ContentIt took two minutes to open the file, and those two minutes exposed the whole...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name Without a Citation, and a Headline Telling Another Story"One hour. Sixty minutes. And the same evening you will play the Scandinavian...
European Club Cup on the Cover, Prague on the Pages: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Economy the Scoresheet Never ShowsThe air-conditioning hum in a Chennai tournament hall is more honest than any...
Two Products in One Envelope: The Benko Gambit Review, Fritz 20, and Chess's Product-Journalism ProblemOn my desk in Saint Petersburg, with the wind off the Neva running a cold...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Mar del Plata: An 'Antidote' That Ships Without a Score SheetLast week a promotional blurb for an opening product landed on my desk, and o...
Italian Game's 5.e5: A Club Weapon, and a Borrowed HeadlineIn my Moscow studio I formed a habit years ago: check the name written on the...
The Headline Said Budva, the Body Sold the Elephant Gambit — I Opened Both DocumentsThirteen information points. The first is a single ticker line — the European...
A Benko Gambit Headline, a FRITZ 20 Cargo: The Review Whose Two Scoresheets DisagreeChennai, 2026, round nine of the Olympiad. A threefold-repetition claim came ...
The Elephant Gambit: Budva's Elite Club Cup and the Shopkeeping of an Unheard Opening MoveBudva, Montenegro — opening day of the European Club Cup. No board has a resu...
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? The Identity Crisis of a Product ReviewWhen I first saw the title of this review—'The Modern Benko Gambit: A Full...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye Triumph at NATO Chess Championship: A Headline Without a BodyMy first habit with any chess story is to read the headline the way I'd read ...
European Club Cup 2026: A 2715 Average Buys Only 0.06 Board Points Against the Strongest ChaserThree point five six. That is the number on which the 2026 European Club Cup ...
The Italian 5.e5 Line and the Title-Content Gap: An Audit of a Club WeaponThe file was labelled “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls with Bodhana...
One File, Two Products: A Benko Gambit Title, a Fritz 20 Body, and the Unwatched Economics of Chess ContentIt took two minutes to open the file, and those two minutes exposed the whole...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name Without a Citation, and a Headline Telling Another Story"One hour. Sixty minutes. And the same evening you will play the Scandinavian...
European Club Cup on the Cover, Prague on the Pages: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Economy the Scoresheet Never ShowsThe air-conditioning hum in a Chennai tournament hall is more honest than any...
Two Products in One Envelope: The Benko Gambit Review, Fritz 20, and Chess's Product-Journalism ProblemOn my desk in Saint Petersburg, with the wind off the Neva running a cold...
9...a5 in the King's Indian Mar del Plata: An 'Antidote' That Ships Without a Score SheetLast week a promotional blurb for an opening product landed on my desk, and o...
Italian Game's 5.e5: A Club Weapon, and a Borrowed HeadlineIn my Moscow studio I formed a habit years ago: check the name written on the...
The Headline Said Budva, the Body Sold the Elephant Gambit — I Opened Both DocumentsThirteen information points. The first is a single ticker line — the European...