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ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures Tell the Story the Crosstable Refuses To
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: A 2,465 Performance and an IM Claim Still Waiting for Verification
A 60-Minute Audit of a Najdorf Repertoire: What Daniel King's Update Teaches, and What It Leaves Out
Bodhana Sivanandan's IM Title: A 2,465 Performance Rating, a Seven-Game Sample, and the Question Nobody Is Asking
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures Tell the Story the Crosstable Refuses ToThe most important game from the Chess Festival Prague 2026 is not the one...
Bodhana Sivanandan's IM Title: A 2,465 Performance Rating, a Seven-Game Sample, and the Question Nobody Is Asking23 October. Board one. Final round. Bodhana Sivanandan had the black pieces a...
Chess's New Title: An 11-Year-Old's IM Claim and the Data GapOn the evening of October 23, in the final round of a tournament, an...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections: The Big Number and the Small Proof in Prison Chess77 teams. Five continents. Three sections. May 13 to 23, 2026. Those four...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: A 2,465 Performance and an IM Claim Still Waiting for VerificationIn that last round on 23 October she had the black pieces. A gambit line, an...
11 Years 7 Months 16 Days, a 2,465 Performance: The Arithmetic of an IM Norm and the Limits of a Seven-Game SampleThe final round on 23 October. Board one. Black. A gambit line — which line, ...
A 60-Minute Audit of a Najdorf Repertoire: What Daniel King's Update Teaches, and What It Leaves OutA Sunday evening at a Mumbai club. The 1780-rated player at board four was...
A 2,465 Performance, an 11-Year-Old, and a Date That Refuses to Reconcile23 October. Final round. Black pieces. A gambit line. A pawn won, an attack...
Wesley So's Fourth US Championship: The Tiebreak Win, the Classical Truth, and a Blurry Media TradeFour titles. The phrase sounds like a complete cover story on its own. But my...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and One Empty Column: The Prison-Chess Data Nobody Is PublishingMay 13, 2026. That morning I had two numbers and nothing else — 77 and five....
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Table With No Score SheetIn the third week of May 2026, a FIDE bulletin landed on my desk. It carried...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Five Lines, One Ledger, and a Date Nobody FiledSixty minutes. Five line clusters. One download. When I put that arithmetic o...
An 11-Year-Old IM Norm: Not Magic on the Board, But a System — and a Timeline That Doesn't Add UpOn 23 October, when she won a pawn from a gambit line as Black on board one a...
Najdorf Poisoned Queen or Elephant Gambit? A 60-Minute Course Sold With a Six-Figure ClaimThe title reads "Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation." Any serious chess player...