Chess
Budapest Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads the Women's Team and India's Resource Allocation CalculusA world champion sitting on board 4. That was the line that made me pause in...
Move 55.Rf2 and Eight Empty Data Boxes: What Elo Could Not Explain in SingaporeThe clock ticked over to move 56. On the board, Ding Liren pushed his rook fr...
A Coach Says His Players Are Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad: What That Claim Needs to Hold UpAt a press briefing, coach Misra said one short sentence: Divya Deshmukh and ...
The August Chessboard: When a Chess Publisher Reviews ItselfChessBase News published its August 2026 product roundup on September 13, 202...
August Chess Training Product Storm: When the Publisher Stands on Its Own ShouldersHOOK The small chess club tucked at the end of an alley in District 3 falls...
Samarkand awaits Gukesh: India defends double crown amid a generational stormI still remember the scent of incense in a small room in Samarkand one...
Chess Olympiad 2026: The Torch Reaches Samarkand and Three Claims That Need VerificationWhen the Chess Olympiad torch was placed in Javokhir Sindarov's hand in...
When the Dataset Is Empty, the Honest Answer Is Insufficient InformationMarch 2026, VTC studio: I sat in front of a microphone with an empty screen....
Ding Liren, Game 14, and the Limits of the Engine Evaluation BarThat night, in Da Nang, I opened my notes file on Game 14 of the world chess...
August Chess Training: The Petroff Returns, and the Trap of the Self-ReviewerIn ChessBase's August new-release list, exactly one line names a specific...
Vaishali and Divya Deshmukh Are Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad: Four Tests Nobody Has RunOn the night of 22 September 2026 I sat in my Delhi apartment with the screen...
The Torch Reaches Samarkand: Three Names in a Clip With No MovesOn a temporary stage in Samarkand, the flame passed from the hand of an India...
