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ChessThe 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian: Surprise Weapon or Preparation Gap?2026-10-19A DVD cover lies on my desk in Saint Petersburg, next to a worn notebook. The...
Chess9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: A Low-Theory Sideline and the Price of Understanding2026-10-17In the analysis room, two pawns stand facing each other across an empty squar...
ChessBayonet Attack and 9...a5: A Low-Theory Path Through Chess's Data Grey Zone2026-10-17In March 2026, I sat in front of the third monitor in my small Chengdu...
ChessChessBase Magazine Issue 225: When 27 Miniatures Carry an Entire Headline About Bent Larsen2026-10-0627. That was the first number I circled when I read the product introduction...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026 Round 9: Gukesh Escapes on Move 54, but India's Men Still Do Not Control Their Own Destiny2026-10-05In Samarkand, time is measured in chess pieces. No starting whistle, no roari...
An Opening DVD and the Capablanca 2026 Headline: The 9...a5 Anti-Bayonet QuestionOn an evening at a chess club in Shanghai, a young player showed me the cover...
Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo Win the 2026 European Club Cup: A Headline Without a MoveThe wire landed at 23:40, the hour I usually spend alone with game scores...
Bodhana Sivanandan Breaks Judit Polgar's 38-Year Record to Become the Youngest Woman to Earn the IM TitleThe game ended on move 32. Bodhana Sivanandan rose, bowed to Viktoria...
A 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: Is Daniel King Teaching Chess, or Selling Reassurance?A Thursday evening at a chess club on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, and I sat...
European Club Cup Enters the Final Round: Three Co-Leaders and a Standings Table Still HangingOne match point. In the team format of the European Club Cup, that is the...
Budva 2026: 108 Chess Teams, One 2715-Rated Squad, and a Headline With No BodyThe playing hall in Budva had no noise at three in the afternoon local time....
The FIDE Presidency, FRITZ 20, and the Verification Gap in Chess MediaOn August 31, 2026, a link landed in a group chat of chess people in Mumbai,...
European Club Cup 2026 in Budva: Bayegan Pendik, a 2715 average and the 115-point gap on every boardIn the largest hall of the seaside resort in Budva, the first sound of every...
The 9...a5 Move in the King's Indian: Surprise Weapon or Preparation Gap?A DVD cover lies on my desk in Saint Petersburg, next to a worn notebook. The...
9...a5 — The Low-Theory Answer to the Bayonet Attack and the Hidden Cost of UnderstandingSecond hall of an open tournament in Chiang Mai, fourth round, Black's clock...
9...a5 against the Bayonet Attack: A Low-Theory Sideline and the Price of UnderstandingIn the analysis room, two pawns stand facing each other across an empty squar...
9...a5: When the King's Indian Defense Chooses Strategy Over MemoryWhen the move 9.b4 appeared on the board, no applause rang out. No grandstand...
Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: A Low-Theory Path Through Chess's Data Grey ZoneIn March 2026, I sat in front of the third monitor in my small Chengdu...
The Najdorf Keeps Moving: A 60-Minute Update and a Bundesliga Headline Out of StepAt three in the morning in Nha Trang, I opened a sports news page expecting t...
Perfect Scores at the US Chess Championship and the Opening Trap Called 1.d4 d5There is a moment every chess player has lived through: you sit at the board,...
Six Videos, One Data Gap: The Craft of Defending Against the Overlooked MovesAt the 23rd minute of the U21 match between Vietnam and Timor-Leste at Hoa Xu...
Bodhana Sivanandan: Age 11, 6/7, and the Limits of a SpreadsheetAt board one of a team event, opponents usually sit across from each other wi...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, the Annotator Line-up, and a Name on the CoverOn September 5, 2026, Bent Larsen died in Buenos Aires at the age of 75. The...
ChessBase Magazine Issue 225: When 27 Miniatures Carry an Entire Headline About Bent Larsen27. That was the first number I circled when I read the product introduction...
Chess Olympiad 2026 Round 9: Gukesh Escapes on Move 54, but India's Men Still Do Not Control Their Own DestinyIn Samarkand, time is measured in chess pieces. No starting whistle, no roari...
The 9...a5 Move: When Humans Try to Win Back the Chessboard from the MachineThe black pawn slid from a7 to a5. Slowly. Almost lazily. No spark flared, no...
King's Indian Defense: the move 9...a5 and the promise of an escape from the machineBack when I was still taking notes on the sidelines of chess tournaments in...
