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Budva Headline, Elephant Gambit Ad: Two Games on One Page
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average, a Half-Board-Point Margin, and One Paragraph of Coverage
European Club Cup: Behind the Favourites' Comfortable Wins Lies a Big Structural Truth
The FIDE President's Cyprus Visit: A Claim in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body
The FIDE President's Cyprus Visit: A Claim in the Headline, an Advertisement in the BodyThe first paragraph says that FIDE President Timur Turlov met the President o...
Budva Headline, Elephant Gambit Ad: Two Games on One PageA page announces that the European Club Cup has opened in Budva. The body...
Total Chess's Unified Rating: The File Nobody Opened Before the Budapest PilotTotal Chess's Unified Rating: The File Nobody Opened Before the Budapest Pilo...
Scandinavian Defense: IM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Video and the 'Club-Level Weapon' ClaimA discussion of IM Andrew Martin's 60-minute video course on the Scandinavian...
Budapest Pilot: Four Names, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating System' the Release Never MentionsBudapest Pilot: Four Names, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating System' the...
Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: IM Andrew Martin's Course and the Uncited Carlsen ClaimOn a Wednesday evening at a Chennai club, at the third board, a 1,480-rated b...
Not Carlsen's AI Line — the $1 Million Crown and the $20 Million Ask Are the Real StoryOn October 21, Madrid newspaper AS published a long interview with Magnus...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average, a Half-Board-Point Margin, and One Paragraph of CoverageThe round-three pairing board opens and the eye goes first not to the team...
A FIDE Presidency Claim, a Nicosia Meeting and a FRITZ 20 Ad: Auditing a Two-Fact StoryThe story out of Nicosia runs to five sentences. I counted them, because ther...
European Club Cup: Behind the Favourites' Comfortable Wins Lies a Big Structural TruthWhenever the annotated games of the Prague Chess Festival 2026 are mentioned,...
European Club Cup: Behind the Favourites' Comfortable Wins Lies the Arithmetic of a Rating GapThe headlines coming out of the European Club Cup keep repeating one sentence...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Three Formats, Four Players, and One Unanswered Rating QuestionA chess clock makes a small sound — a dry, solid tick when the lever goes dow...
A Benko Gambit Title, FRITZ 20 Bullet Points: Anatomy of an Identity Failure in a Chess Product ReviewI open any chess product in two windows. The first holds the claim: the title...
Budva Headline, Elephant Gambit Ad: Two Games on One PageA page announces that the European Club Cup has opened in Budva. The body...
Total Chess's Unified Rating: The File Nobody Opened Before the Budapest PilotTotal Chess's Unified Rating: The File Nobody Opened Before the Budapest Pilo...
Scandinavian Defense: IM Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Video and the 'Club-Level Weapon' ClaimA discussion of IM Andrew Martin's 60-minute video course on the Scandinavian...
Budapest Pilot: Four Names, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating System' the Release Never MentionsBudapest Pilot: Four Names, Eleven Days, and a 'Unified Rating System' the...
Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: IM Andrew Martin's Course and the Uncited Carlsen ClaimOn a Wednesday evening at a Chennai club, at the third board, a 1,480-rated b...
Not Carlsen's AI Line — the $1 Million Crown and the $20 Million Ask Are the Real StoryOn October 21, Madrid newspaper AS published a long interview with Magnus...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average, a Half-Board-Point Margin, and One Paragraph of CoverageThe round-three pairing board opens and the eye goes first not to the team...
A FIDE Presidency Claim, a Nicosia Meeting and a FRITZ 20 Ad: Auditing a Two-Fact StoryThe story out of Nicosia runs to five sentences. I counted them, because ther...
European Club Cup: Behind the Favourites' Comfortable Wins Lies a Big Structural TruthWhenever the annotated games of the Prague Chess Festival 2026 are mentioned,...
European Club Cup: Behind the Favourites' Comfortable Wins Lies the Arithmetic of a Rating GapThe headlines coming out of the European Club Cup keep repeating one sentence...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: Three Formats, Four Players, and One Unanswered Rating QuestionA chess clock makes a small sound — a dry, solid tick when the lever goes dow...
A Benko Gambit Title, FRITZ 20 Bullet Points: Anatomy of an Identity Failure in a Chess Product ReviewI open any chess product in two windows. The first holds the claim: the title...