Chess
Rachel Li's Title, a Scandinavian Defense Sales Pitch: Two Different Stories in One File
A 60-Minute Scandinavian Defence Advert, and the US Women's Championship Result That Never Reached the Body Copy
A 2026 Capablanca Headline, a King's Indian DVD: When the Packaging Outran the Content
The Girl on Board One: The 2465 Performance Is Real, the 'Youngest IM' Crown Is Still Pending
The 60-Minute Ledger of a Najdorf Update: Daniel King's Course Is Sound, but Its Shelf Life Moves at Sicilian Theory's Speed
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Headline Was the Player, the Text Was the Course
ChessA 2026 Capablanca Headline, a King's Indian DVD: When the Packaging Outran the ContentBefore the scoreboard, there was a bedsheet and a bad signal. I thought of th...
ChessThe Girl on Board One: The 2465 Performance Is Real, the 'Youngest IM' Crown Is Still PendingI was not at that board. All I have is a description — the black pieces, a...
ChessThe 60-Minute Ledger of a Najdorf Update: Daniel King's Course Is Sound, but Its Shelf Life Moves at Sicilian Theory's Speed60 minutes. Five line clusters. The division is unkind and unavoidable: ten t...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: The Headline Was the Player, the Text Was the CourseNo date. No score. Not a round number, not a tiebreak format, not a single...
ChessA Rachel Li Headline, an Andrew Martin Body: The Audit That Found Two Different ArticlesTwelve information points. In front of all twelve, the source field carried t...
ChessRachel Li's Title, a Scandinavian Defense Sales Pitch: Two Different Stories in One FileTwelve information points. Every one of them carried the same tag at the end:...
ChessA 60-Minute Scandinavian Defence Advert, and the US Women's Championship Result That Never Reached the Body CopyIt was eleven at night and the page on my screen carried a headline saying...
ChessWesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Claim a Fourth US Chess Championship TitleThe room at the St. Louis Chess Club had fewer chairs than pieces and more...
ChessNovy Bor and SuperChess Are 'Perfect' — Only at Match-Point LevelThe first jolt came from the third sentence, not the scoreboard. The headline...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: When the Players Annotate Prague ThemselvesOn the night of 12 December 2026, in the press room at Resorts World Sentosa,...
ChessA Glass Town's Club and a Scotch Advertisement: Two Stories From the European Club CupThe hall of the European Club Cup does not produce applause. It produces a...
ChessWrong FIDE President in the Headline, a Fritz 20 Advert in the Body: The Credibility Crack in Chess CoverageA link landed in my inbox on Monday morning. The headline ran to twelve words...