Chess
Woodward Beats Caruana at the US Chess Championship: Recheck the Odds Before Calling It an UpsetThe results page refreshed at 23:40 Chengdu time. I had just closed the...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and the Emptiness Behind the HeadlineIn the tournament hall there is a moment the cameras usually miss. Somewhere...
AI Solves a 58-Year-Old Chess Problem: 63 Checking Moves Is a Closed Maximum, 364 Remains OpenThere is a chess position in which the side to move has no choice but to give...
Players Behind Bars: The 6th Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners and the Record 140 TeamsIn a room with no windows, the ceiling fan turns steadily like a giant chess...
Yu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren at Shenzhen Masters: The Real Concern Is Not the GameThe day Yu Yangyi defeated Ding Liren in the Shenzhen Masters final, most...
5.e5 and the strange comforts of superstition: why club players still trust an outdated gambitIn the winter of 2026, in a chess club playing hall tucked deep in a small...
Liang Beats Niemann in the US Chess Championship Opener: Two Young Contemporaries Face Off, and a Whole Chess Nation Grows Behind ThemIn the small room in Nha Trang where I still sit every morning to edit...
Liang Beats Niemann in Round 1: How the Chess World Learned to Sell Content With a NameI reopened the report on Round 1 of the US Chess Championship, where Awonder...
Van Delft and 743 Episodes of Game of the Week: When an Anonymous Chess Game Becomes a Library of MemoryWhen the clock in Hamburg hit six on Wednesday evening, a video less than...
The 743rd Game: A Dutch IM and 14 Years of Telling Chess Stories Every WednesdayEvery Wednesday night, as darkness settles over Amsterdam, a man sits down at...
Board One and an Eleven-Year-Old: Behind the 2504 Performance in SamarkandSamarkand, round seven of the 2026 Chess Olympiad. At board one for England's...
Bodhana Sivanandan: Eleven Years Old on Board One and the Sicilian Question at the Samarkand 2026 OlympiadA Chessboard at Board One Samarkand, late September 2026. In the playing hall...
King's Indian Defense: When 9...a5 Opens an Escape from the Theory MazeIn the small room of the chess club on Rubinstein Street, Saint Petersburg, i...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A Strategic Answer for the King's Indian in the Engine EraIn a tournament hall in Chengdu, the game reached move nine. White had just...


