Chess
Prague's 27 Miniatures: In Chess, the Post-Mortem Is Now the Real Currency
Prague 2026: Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Paper Trail of Preparation
Wesley So's Fourth US Title — and the Course Being Sold Inside the Report
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Was Decided in a Tiebreak — and 89% of the Report Announcing It Was About Something Else
Prague's 27 Miniatures: In Chess, the Post-Mortem Is Now the Real CurrencyThere is a line in the contents list of ChessBase Magazine #225 — 'Special: 2...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Real Job of a Magazine: A Structural Reading of ChessBase Magazine #225The most important work after the final round of the Chess Festival Prague 20...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures Are the Lesson Club Players Open LastAt the Masters hall of the Chess Festival Prague 2026, spectators sit three...
Prague 2026: Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Paper Trail of PreparationTwenty-one moves. The tea in the press room had not gone cold, the ink on the...
Prison Chess: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scorecard With No NamesIn 2026 I counted 214 boards in a hall in Secunderabad. Only 19 of the player...
First Continental Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and Zero PGNsThe hardest artifact from the first Continental Chess Championship for...
Five Continents Through a Prison Window: 77 Teams and the Missing Data at the First Continental Prison Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026, the first Continental Chess Championship for...
5.5/7 and 2465: A Vietnamese 11-Year-Old's IM Score, and the Dates That Don't Yet Add UpThe final round on 23 October. Board one. An 11-year-old from Vietnam has the...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title — and the Course Being Sold Inside the ReportNine information points. One about Wesley So, one about Fabiano Caruana, and...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: Beating Caruana in the Tiebreak, and the Increment That Decided ItThe title was not decided on a classical board. It was decided in the room th...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Was Decided in a Tiebreak — and 89% of the Report Announcing It Was About Something ElseThe evening belonged to St. Louis, I am going to assume — because the source...