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Wesley So's Fourth US Title — and the Report That Never Printed the Score
A Poisoned Pawn on the Cover, an Elephant in the Box: Auditing a 60-Minute Surprise Weapon
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, Zero Ratings: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Is Actually Selling
Behind the European Club Cup's 'Perfect' Headline: Novy Bor, SuperChess and a Ten-Year-Old Scotch Video
Wesley So's Fourth US Title — and the Report That Never Printed the ScoreThe story arrived on a morning when the ink in Kolkata had not yet dried. The...
The Najdorf Maintenance Receipt: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Ledger Nobody AuditsAt Gorky Sadan in Kolkata on a Wednesday evening, a 2026-rated club player at...
Eleven Years Old, a 2465 Performance — And a Crown That Must Be Weighed Before It Is DatedThe board showed black, and nobody was in a hurry. Final round. Board one....
Wesley So's Fourth US Title — And a File Where the Chess Went MissingThe headline was clean: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win a...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and a Board-One Test WaitingThree rounds are complete. Eleven teams in the open section of the European...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Decided in Tiebreak: Where Classical Equality Broke in a Faster FormatTwelve classical rounds, no decision. Then rapid, and Wesley So had his fourt...
A Poisoned Pawn on the Cover, an Elephant in the Box: Auditing a 60-Minute Surprise WeaponSixty minutes. For an opening course, that is the first number the eye catche...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Headline, the Tiebreak, and the Business Behind ItThe first floor room of the Saint Louis Chess Club stays cold even on an...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Ledger, and a News Story That Was 89% Something ElseWesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Ledger, and a News Story That Was 8...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, Zero Ratings: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Is Actually SellingChessBase Magazine #225, the September release. The announcement carries four...
The Sixty-Minute Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense: Where the Headline and the Body Copy Fail to ReconcileThere are two sheets of paper on my desk. The first carries a headline: “Rach...
Behind the European Club Cup's 'Perfect' Headline: Novy Bor, SuperChess and a Ten-Year-Old Scotch VideoLast week I walked straight into an old newsroom habit. I typed “European Clu...
Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute 'Weapon' Priced on the Opponent's IgnoranceA pawn is on the table at move two. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 comes d5!? — the...
A FIDE President in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: A Chess Story Played on Two BoardsLate one February night in Mumbai, a forwarded link sat open on my laptop. Th...
The Scandinavian Defence: 60 Minutes, a Carlsen Halo, and the Club Player's Real Question11:40 p.m. A page is open on the laptop. At the top, in large type, a headlin...
Sixty Minutes of 2...d5: An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf NameThe clock showed 0:42 and only two moves had been played. At a club rapid in...
A Wrong FIDE President, a FRITZ 20 Ad in the Body: The Autopsy of a Fake Chess StoryAt 3 a.m. in Mumbai the phone was propped against a glass of water. The scree...
Carlsen's Real Admission: A Human Accuracy Ceiling, the 5–6 Hour Fatigue, and a $20 Million Door Left AjarLast week, reading Magnus Carlsen's interview in Marca, I stopped three times...
European Club Cup: Under Novy Bor and SuperChess's 'perfect' record lies a 2026 Scotch advertorialAt 1:40 in the morning I had six tabs open. One held the European Club Cup...
The Najdorf Maintenance Receipt: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Ledger Nobody AuditsAt Gorky Sadan in Kolkata on a Wednesday evening, a 2026-rated club player at...
Eleven Years Old, a 2465 Performance — And a Crown That Must Be Weighed Before It Is DatedThe board showed black, and nobody was in a hurry. Final round. Board one....
Wesley So's Fourth US Title — And a File Where the Chess Went MissingThe headline was clean: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win a...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, and a Board-One Test WaitingThree rounds are complete. Eleven teams in the open section of the European...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Decided in Tiebreak: Where Classical Equality Broke in a Faster FormatTwelve classical rounds, no decision. Then rapid, and Wesley So had his fourt...
A Poisoned Pawn on the Cover, an Elephant in the Box: Auditing a 60-Minute Surprise WeaponSixty minutes. For an opening course, that is the first number the eye catche...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Headline, the Tiebreak, and the Business Behind ItThe first floor room of the Saint Louis Chess Club stays cold even on an...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Ledger, and a News Story That Was 89% Something ElseWesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Ledger, and a News Story That Was 8...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, Zero Ratings: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Is Actually SellingChessBase Magazine #225, the September release. The announcement carries four...
The Sixty-Minute Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense: Where the Headline and the Body Copy Fail to ReconcileThere are two sheets of paper on my desk. The first carries a headline: “Rach...
Behind the European Club Cup's 'Perfect' Headline: Novy Bor, SuperChess and a Ten-Year-Old Scotch VideoLast week I walked straight into an old newsroom habit. I typed “European Clu...
Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute 'Weapon' Priced on the Opponent's IgnoranceA pawn is on the table at move two. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 comes d5!? — the...
A FIDE President in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: A Chess Story Played on Two BoardsLate one February night in Mumbai, a forwarded link sat open on my laptop. Th...
The Scandinavian Defence: 60 Minutes, a Carlsen Halo, and the Club Player's Real Question11:40 p.m. A page is open on the laptop. At the top, in large type, a headlin...
Sixty Minutes of 2...d5: An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf NameThe clock showed 0:42 and only two moves had been played. At a club rapid in...
A Wrong FIDE President, a FRITZ 20 Ad in the Body: The Autopsy of a Fake Chess StoryAt 3 a.m. in Mumbai the phone was propped against a glass of water. The scree...
Carlsen's Real Admission: A Human Accuracy Ceiling, the 5–6 Hour Fatigue, and a $20 Million Door Left AjarLast week, reading Magnus Carlsen's interview in Marca, I stopped three times...
European Club Cup: Under Novy Bor and SuperChess's 'perfect' record lies a 2026 Scotch advertorialAt 1:40 in the morning I had six tabs open. One held the European Club Cup...