Chess
Elephant Gambit in a 60-Minute Chess Product: The 'Surprise Weapon' Problem
IM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: Practical, But the Headline Is Selling Someone Else
9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: A Low-Theory Detour and the Price of Understanding
The Second-Move d5: When an Underrated Gambit Is Sold as a Secret Weapon
7.b3 or g2-g3 — A Miniature at the UzChess Cup and the Forgotten Gap in Opening Memory
UzChess Cup: Jacobson's 'model game' against Vakhidov and the data gap hiding in the title
The Headline Names Caruana and Nakamura; the Body Sells Valeri Lilov's Six-Video CourseIn the data table I built for this report there are nine information points....
King's Indian: the 9...a5 move and an exit for players who want to think for themselvesThe DVD lay face-up on board four at the club, its cover carrying one large...
Elephant Gambit in a 60-Minute Chess Product: The 'Surprise Weapon' ProblemA club-level chess player opens an online product page, reads the headline...
Rachel Li, the Chess Page With No Moves, and Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian DefenseAt three in the morning the third tab was still glowing. I have a stubborn...
The Scotch Game: from a shelved move in 2026 to Mikhalchishin's 60-minute lessonIn the 2026 World Chess Championship, split between New York and Lyon, Garry...
The FIDE President Is Not Named Timur Turlov: One False Headline and the Price of Data TrustOn August 31, 2026, my monitoring sheet — a fourteen-column spreadsheet runni...
A Headline That Crowned the Wrong FIDE President: Verification Lessons From a Chess Marketing CampaignThree tabs. One for official records, one for the board, one for whatever I...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Promise, a Trap and a Misplaced HeadlineOn the screen, the headline says that a grandmaster named Arturs Neiksans qui...
IM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: Practical, But the Headline Is Selling Someone ElseI open the analysis file and the first line reads: “Quitting chess to become ...
Total Chess, Fast Classic and the Gap Inside a Unified Rating SystemOn August 29, 2026, a short bulletin went out under a headline stating that...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap, and the Data Void Behind a HeadlineThe Game on Move 38: The Moment Woodward Took Down Caruana On move 38, Woodwa...
9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: A Low-Theory Detour and the Price of UnderstandingThe square a5. On a weekend evening at a small chess club on Nguyen Dinh Chie...
The Second-Move d5: When an Underrated Gambit Is Sold as a Secret WeaponThere is a moment at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang...
US Chess Championship: Awonder Liang Beats Hans Niemann in Round OneI watched the opening round of the US Chess Championship on a live stream, we...
7.b3 or g2-g3 — A Miniature at the UzChess Cup and the Forgotten Gap in Opening MemorySometimes a chess game ends before anyone has time to name it. During a...