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European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, Giri–Abdusattorov Looms in Round Four
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level in the Open After Three Rounds, SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round Four
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and the Business Model Hiding in the Third Paragraph
Najdorf on the Headline, Elephant Gambit in the Body — A Documentary Audit of One Chess Course
One Landing Page, Two Openings: the 60 Minutes of the Elephant Gambit and the Arithmetic of 'Underrated'
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Was Won, the Record Sheet Stayed Blank
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and the Business Model Hiding in the Third ParagraphMy eye stopped at the third paragraph. The headline had Wesley So, Fabiano...
Najdorf on the Headline, Elephant Gambit in the Body — A Documentary Audit of One Chess CourseThe course page's headline says Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation. The sixteen...
One Landing Page, Two Openings: the 60 Minutes of the Elephant Gambit and the Arithmetic of 'Underrated'Last Tuesday, 11:40 p.m., Chicago, an online blitz game. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3,...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Was Won, the Record Sheet Stayed BlankIn that hall in St. Louis, the thing deciding the evening was not the board. ...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Undated Citation and a Headline That Never Appears in the TextAt a club-level rapid event in Pune last month I sat beside a game where Whit...
Carlsen's Confession: The Human Ceiling, a Thirty-Five-Year-Old Body, and Budapest's Twenty-Four-Player ExperimentOn the afternoon of 21 October, the two-hundred-square-foot room in Indiranag...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, Giri–Abdusattorov Looms in Round FourOctober 20, 2026 is a Tuesday. Round four of the European Club Cup is to be...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level in the Open After Three Rounds, SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round FourIt is two in the morning in Chicago. The open-section standings of the Europe...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Five Lines, and a Headline With an Empty RoomA download page lists five lines. 6 h3 e5 7 Nde2, the Adams Attack. 6 Bc4 and...
One Headline, Two Stories: A Misattributed FIDE Presidency and a FRITZ 20 AdvertisementEleven-forty at night. The last spreadsheet was closing in that one-room offi...
The Headline Said Najdorf, the Page Opened the Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute 'Surprise Weapon' and the Politics of a CatalogueThe habit of opening the notebook at board 27 dates to 2026, when I was a...
Najdorf on the Cover, Elephant Gambit Inside: The Full Ledger of a 60-Minute CourseIn November 2026, when Tata Steel Chess India came to Kolkata for the first...
Eleven Teams, One Column: What the European Club Cup Table Is Actually RecordingOpen the open-section table after three rounds and read the match-point colum...