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ChessSeven Rounds, a 2,465 Performance Rating and an IM Claim: Auditing an 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Player's Record, Column by ColumnSeven Rounds, a 2,465 Performance Rating and an IM Claim: Auditing an...
ChessNajdorf Update: 60 Minutes, 5 Lines, and a Frequency Table That Doesn't MatchSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Eleven to twelve minutes per cluster. Thos...
Chess27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Ledger: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225Twenty-seven miniatures. That is the number ChessBase Magazine #225 puts on i...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles and One Unsettled Ledger: The Real Order of Learning from Prague 2026Twenty-seven. That is the count of miniature games listed in ChessBase Magazi...
ChessSixty Minutes, Five Lines, Zero Engine Checks: The Missing Scoresheet of a Najdorf Trainer ReviewIn 2026, at the Hyderabad International Open, I was on the scorekeeper's chai...
Chess77 Teams Inside the Walls, Zero PGNs Outside: The Unfinished Ledger of FIDE's Prison ChampionshipI keep a paper logbook. In June 2026, when I left a sub-editor's chair on a...
ChessEleven Years Old, Board One and 2465: Vietnam's Girl, an IM Norm, and the Invoice Nobody MentionedThe hall speaks in order. First the ceiling fan, then the clock. Then the...
ChessThe Najdorf Maintenance Job: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and a Promise With No DateBefore the third round of a weekend open in Bengaluru last month, I saw a...
ChessNajdorf Maintenance: Who Is Daniel King's 60-Minute Update Actually For?60 minutes. Five variation clusters. One download. GM Daniel King's new...
ChessAn Undated Najdorf: Who Measures the Shelf Life of a 60-Minute 'Update'?On a February evening in a coaching hall in Delhi, I watched a fifteen-year-o...
ChessWesley So's Fourth Crown: The 'Measured Calm' That Beat Caruana in TiebreaksDuring the tiebreaks, I kept my eye on So's wrist. After every move, he looke...
ChessThe Real Price of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and One Unaudited PromiseSixty minutes. Five line clusters. One video download, plus a database. That ...
Chess60-Minute Course Against 5000 Years of Theory: The Dangerous Crack in Chess Coaching EconomyI saw this scene last month at a club tournament in Kolkata. A 14-year-old bo...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and the Pairing Slip Nobody Films20 October 2026, a Tuesday. In the hall of the European Club Cup the round-fo...
ChessBehind Wesley So's Fourth US Title Headline, a Course: A Structural Case Study in Chess MediaA news item landed in my feed last week. The headline was clean: Wesley So be...
