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The Laptop on the First Floor: Sixty Minutes With a Najdorf Repair Job
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and a Booklet: The Training Spine of Prague 2026
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Arithmetic of a Repertoire
Twenty-Seven Miniatures: In Prague, the Loss Is the Most Honest Document
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague 2026: ChessBase Magazine #225's Contents Page Reads Like a Receipt
The 23 October 2026 Rating Ledger: 11 Years 7 Months 16 Days, a 2465 Performance — and a Date the Calendar Hasn't Reached
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and a Booklet: The Training Spine of Prague 2026A miniature is a game that ends before the post-mortem begins. ChessBase...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Arithmetic of a RepertoireAt one in the morning last week I opened the booklet for ChessBase Magazine...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures: In Prague, the Loss Is the Most Honest DocumentIn the first-floor hall of Prague's Hotel Don Giovanni, in the last week of...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague 2026: ChessBase Magazine #225's Contents Page Reads Like a ReceiptLate last week I opened the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 and read...
The Laptop on the First Floor: Sixty Minutes With a Najdorf Repair JobThere is a club in Deccan, Pune, on the first floor, where twelve boards are...
The 23 October 2026 Rating Ledger: 11 Years 7 Months 16 Days, a 2465 Performance — and a Date the Calendar Hasn't ReachedThere is a column on my desk. Three rows. First — age: 11 years, 7 months, 16...
Prague 2026: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles, and the Long-Form Piece Nobody Has Written YetThere has been a brown envelope in my cupboard since 2026. The word 'unused' ...
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and Not a Single Verified ClaimAt an academy session in Bangalore last month, a 1750-rated student opened hi...
One Tournament, Two Names, and an Empty Scoresheet: The No-PGN Record of the Prison Chess ChampionshipOn 13 May 2026, the first day of the event, one document called it the “First...
FIDE's Prison Chess: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Record With No Scores in ItOn the night of 30 August 2026, the FIDE Online Olympiad final stopped when t...
Eleven Teams, Three Rounds, One Wrong Headline: Auditing the European Club Cup 2026HOOK On the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the round-four pairing sheet...
The ChessBase Magazine #225 Ledger: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and a Missing Publication YearThe ChessBase September release note, "All new releases in September!", carri...
Budva's 2715: One Team Above, 103 Below at the European Club CupThere are 108 teams on the Budva start list. One of them, Bayegan Pendik of...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Arithmetic of a RepertoireAt one in the morning last week I opened the booklet for ChessBase Magazine...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures: In Prague, the Loss Is the Most Honest DocumentIn the first-floor hall of Prague's Hotel Don Giovanni, in the last week of...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague 2026: ChessBase Magazine #225's Contents Page Reads Like a ReceiptLate last week I opened the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 and read...
The Laptop on the First Floor: Sixty Minutes With a Najdorf Repair JobThere is a club in Deccan, Pune, on the first floor, where twelve boards are...
The 23 October 2026 Rating Ledger: 11 Years 7 Months 16 Days, a 2465 Performance — and a Date the Calendar Hasn't ReachedThere is a column on my desk. Three rows. First — age: 11 years, 7 months, 16...
Prague 2026: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles, and the Long-Form Piece Nobody Has Written YetThere has been a brown envelope in my cupboard since 2026. The word 'unused' ...
Daniel King's Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and Not a Single Verified ClaimAt an academy session in Bangalore last month, a 1750-rated student opened hi...
One Tournament, Two Names, and an Empty Scoresheet: The No-PGN Record of the Prison Chess ChampionshipOn 13 May 2026, the first day of the event, one document called it the “First...
FIDE's Prison Chess: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Record With No Scores in ItOn the night of 30 August 2026, the FIDE Online Olympiad final stopped when t...
Eleven Teams, Three Rounds, One Wrong Headline: Auditing the European Club Cup 2026HOOK On the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the round-four pairing sheet...
The ChessBase Magazine #225 Ledger: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and a Missing Publication YearThe ChessBase September release note, "All new releases in September!", carri...
Budva's 2715: One Team Above, 103 Below at the European Club CupThere are 108 teams on the Budva start list. One of them, Bayegan Pendik of...