Chess
The Pawn Sacrifice on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Video and the Limits of a Surprise Weapon
The Benko Gambit and How Vietnamese Chess Filters Its Training Material Before SEA Games 25
9...a5 against the Bayonet: When a Sideline Is Sold as a Solution
The 5.e5 Thrust and the Strange Belief of Club Chess
A Clutch Chess headline over a Lilov course body: the content-packaging failure in chess mediaAt two in the morning in Delhi, with the window still reading thirty-one...
Wesley So Beats Caruana in Tiebreak: A Fourth US Title and the Limits of a Rapid-Chess CrownThe game that decided Wesley So's fourth US chess championship did not last a...
Daniel King's 60-Minute Patch for the Najdorf: When an Opening Becomes a Maintenance ContractA Black player buys the Najdorf DVD, memorises the 6.Be3 lines, goes to a clu...
The Fifth Move and the Expiry Date of a Trap LineThe third board from the window. Saturday morning, a coffee shop on Nguyen Ch...
The Pawn Sacrifice on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Video and the Limits of a Surprise WeaponBoard seven, fourth round of the second day. The digital clock ticked from 1:...
The Benko Gambit and How Vietnamese Chess Filters Its Training Material Before SEA Games 25In the playing hall of the 2026 Vietnamese National Chess Championship, a you...
9...a5 against the Bayonet: When a Sideline Is Sold as a Solution1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4...
Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap: Silence and Echo at the US Chess ChampionshipsThe board on table three was so quiet you could hear the clock ticking....
The Scotch Opening: From Kasparov's Weapon to a Coach's AntidoteIn the late 1980s, at a small chess club on Nguyễn Thiện Thuật Street in Nha...
The 5.e5 Thrust and the Strange Belief of Club ChessIn a weekend rapid at a small club in central Vietnam, Black's clock ticks fr...