Chess
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds; SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round Four
European Club Cup 2026: Budva's 2715 Average Is a Procurement Outcome, Not Proof of Depth
Carlsen at 35: The Five-Hour Board, the Fading Endurance, and Budapest's All-Around Gamble
First Continental Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams Were Counted, the Games Were Not Filed
A NATO Headline, a Najdorf Ledger: Auditing a Twelve-for-Twelve Mismatch
First Continental Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams Were Counted, the Games Were Not Filed13 May 2026. The FIDE list carries one line: 77 teams, five continents. My...
A NATO Headline, a Najdorf Ledger: Auditing a Twelve-for-Twelve MismatchTwelve out of twelve. The file that reached my desk last week carried a...
Budva's European Club Cup: A 2715 Average, Twenty-Five Teams on 2/2, and a Headline Pointing at BarcelonaI opened the entry list and wrote two numbers on a separate sheet — 108 and 2...
A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course, a Carlsen Halo, and the Club Player’s Real TestA 60-minute video, one opening, and a headline naming Rachel Li — none of it ...
The European Club Cup in Budva: What a 2715 Average Hides More Than It RevealsThe standings sheet was taped to a wall in a Budva hotel conference room afte...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds; SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round FourOn the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the standings sheet that followed...
A NATO Headline Over a Najdorf Download: Sixty Minutes, Five Clusters, and a Metadata FailureThe source document contains twelve information points. The headline says Vah...
Budva's 2715 and the Headline's Barcelona: A Referee's Read of the European Club CupOne page carries two cities. The headline says Barcelona will host the MOVE...
European Club Cup 2026: Budva's 2715 Average Is a Procurement Outcome, Not Proof of DepthThe headline of this brief is about Barcelona. The body is about Budva. Acros...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, Giri–Abdusattorov Projected for Board One in Round FourThree rounds. Eleven teams. One scoreline. When the standings of the open...
The FIDE President Who Doesn't Exist: An Audit of Chess Media's Oldest HabitThe headline carried two names and one office. The names were real. The offic...
Carlsen at 35: The Five-Hour Board, the Fading Endurance, and Budapest's All-Around GambleLondon, November 2026. My notebook has twelve pages for that match, and every...
A Club Cup Headline, a Scotch Advertisement: What Really Sits Behind Novy Bor and SuperChess Staying 'Perfect'On a Sunday afternoon I opened a report expecting a crosstable. The headline...
Carlsen's AI Remark, His 5–6 Hour Endurance Admission, and the Injury Nobody LoggedThe interview ran in Marca on 21 October 2026; the original material came fro...