Chess
Carlsen: AI Has Levelled the Field, and at 35 He Must Win Faster2026-10-22On 21 October, in an interview with the Spanish daily AS, Magnus Carlsen said...
Carlsen: When AI Levels the Field, Humans Are Just Apprentices at the Chessboard2026-10-22When the Champion Admits He Is No Longer the Best in the Analysis Room Magnus...
A Wrong Headline About the FIDE President, and the Software Package Behind It2026-10-22On a Saturday morning I sat in a familiar coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh...
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 and the 115-Point Gap on Every Board2026-10-20In Budva you hear the clocks before you hear the pieces. A hall on the...
FIDE Shortens Time Controls: The Scandinavian Defense and the Price of an Economy System2026-10-14On a Tuesday night at a small chess club on Hàng Bông Street in Hanoi, the la...
An 11-Year-Old at Board One: The Game That Doesn't Count Age2026-10-09Samarkand, a late-September afternoon. In the city where medieval astronomers...
Carlsen: AI Has Levelled the Field, and at 35 He Must Win FasterOn 21 October, in an interview with the Spanish daily AS, Magnus Carlsen said...
Carlsen: AI Has Flattened Preparation Advantages, and Humans Are Not as Good as We ThinkIn an interview conducted by AS on October 21 and later reported by Marca,...
Carlsen: When AI Levels the Field, Humans Are Just Apprentices at the ChessboardWhen the Champion Admits He Is No Longer the Best in the Analysis Room Magnus...
Daniel King and the 60-Minute Najdorf Update: When Opening Theory Becomes a Maintenance ProductThere is one detail in Daniel King's new product that made me pause longer th...
A Wrong Headline About the FIDE President, and the Software Package Behind ItOn a Saturday morning I sat in a familiar coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh...
Magnus Carlsen and the Line That Shook the Chessboard: When AI Flattens Advantage, Humans Are Forced to Learn to Win FasterTwo in the morning in Saigon. On screen was a game by a twenty-year-old playe...
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 and the 115-Point Gap on Every BoardIn Budva you hear the clocks before you hear the pieces. A hall on the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: a European Club Cup headline with no chess moves inside"European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the favourites." The headline sat on...
ChessBase #225: Four Names, Twenty-Seven Short Games, and a Headline That Runs Ahead of Its ContentI read that headline on a Saturday evening, right after closing the European...
Sipke Ernst's Move and the Void Beneath the Fluorescent LightThere is a sound I never forgot from my years sitting in the press room of th...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — When Headline and Data Tell Different StoriesAt the US Chess Championship, Woodward sat across from Fabiano Caruana. The...
Atyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall, and the Applause That Never Came for a New TournamentThe city of Atyrau stretches along both banks of the Ural River, where the...
