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Vahap Sanal's NATO Title Turned Up on a Catalogue Page — Türkiye's Chess Question Is Pipeline, Not Trophies
A Nicosia Meeting, a FIDE Presidency Claim, and an Engine for Sale in the Middle
A Benko Gambit Book, a Fritz 20 Blurb: When a Chess Review Forgets Its Own Identity
Nine Points, Zero Games: The 9...a5 'Antidote' Being Sold Against the Bayonet Attack
European Club Cup: The Arithmetic Behind the Favourites' Comfortable Wins
NATO Chess Title and a Najdorf Video: Two Separate Stories Behind One Headline
ChessNATO Chess Title and a Najdorf Video: Two Separate Stories Behind One HeadlineIn November 2026, sitting in the Chennai press room, I logged time-per-move...
ChessOne Translated Interview, Three Unresolved Numbers: Carlsen's 'AI Humility' and Budapest's First EditionHook The interview doing the rounds has travelled from the Spanish newspaper ...
ChessVahap Sanal's NATO Title Turned Up on a Catalogue Page — Türkiye's Chess Question Is Pipeline, Not TrophiesI went looking for the score. The headline was clean — “Vahap Sanal and Team...
ChessThe Chess Throne Changes Hands: FIDE President's Cyprus Visit and the Silence Behind ItAt three in the morning, in a Mumbai common room, I read a headline that jolt...
ChessA Nicosia Meeting, a FIDE Presidency Claim, and an Engine for Sale in the MiddleLast week a single line landed on my desk: the FIDE President, Timur Turlov,...
ChessCarlsen's Confession: Declining Stamina, a Faster-Win Strategy and Budapest's First EditionIn the last week of October my Kolkata desk held three things at once: the AS...
ChessTotal Chess's Budapest Pilot: The Rating-System Claim and Three Empty Spaces in the AnnouncementTotal Chess's Budapest Pilot: The Rating-System Claim and Three Empty Spaces ...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: A 2715 Average and the Half-Board-Point MarginThe open section of the European Club Cup lists 108 teams. After two rounds, ...
ChessA Benko Gambit Book, a Fritz 20 Blurb: When a Chess Review Forgets Its Own IdentityOn a September afternoon I was sitting in a small studio in Hyderabad, where ...
ChessSixty Minutes for the Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name Is There, the Game Is NotTwo things sat on that page, side by side, and neither matched the other. The...
ChessItalian 5.e5: The Ledger of a Club Weapon, and a Headline Selling Something ElseNine information points. One headline. The headline carried three things that...
ChessCarlsen's preparation tunnel has shortened — that is the real story in this interviewOn 21 October, the Spanish newspaper AS carried a long interview with Magnus...
ChessCarlsen's AI Line Makes the Headline. The Real File Is His Stamina and Budapest's Format.On 21 October, Spain's AS ran a long interview with Magnus Carlsen. In the la...
ChessA Rating-System Claim With No Rating Numbers: What the Budapest Pilot's Scoresheet Actually RecordsThe announcement for the Budapest event, running 10–21 November 2026, contain...
ChessComfortable Wins, Missing Scores: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Annotator EconomyThe shop page opens, and the headline arrives first — "European Club Cup:...
ChessAuditing 9...a5: How the Market Prices a Sideline Against the Bayonet AttackNine information points. Not one complete move sequence. No game named, no...