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Prague Festival 2026: 27 Miniatures, One Database, and a New Entry in Indian Chess's Ledger
Auditing a Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Missing Timestamp
Prague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine #225: Auditing a Training System Built on 27 Miniatures
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, and a Hall Where No One Clapped
An 11-Year-Old 'IM': Ask for the Scoresheet Before the Headline
The Prague 2026 Copy: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Files and a Magazine's Delivery Conditions
An 11-Year-Old 'IM': Ask for the Scoresheet Before the HeadlineFinal round, October 23, 2026. She was playing black. Across the board stood...
The Prague 2026 Copy: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Files and a Magazine's Delivery ConditionsBefore I opened the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225, I did what I ha...
Prague Festival 2026: 27 Miniatures, One Database, and a New Entry in Indian Chess's LedgerThree columns, one anomaly, and a season that has to be recorded before it...
Auditing a Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Missing TimestampA review arrived at my desk. The subject was real work: an update to a Black...
An IM at 11 Years 7 Months 16 Days: The Scoresheet Is Clean, the Headline Is Not Yet Finished23 October. Board one. Black pieces. Round seven. One line remained on the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, Three Video Schools and Ten Opening FilesA miniature does not just mean a fast win. It breaks the broadcast rundown at...
Prague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine #225: Auditing a Training System Built on 27 Miniatures“I opened the spreadsheet again, and this time the game started telling a...
60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters and an Undated Review: A Ledger Audit of a Najdorf Update RepertoireSixty minutes. Five line clusters. English. One-off download. That is the onl...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, and a Hall Where No One ClappedFive lines arrived in my inbox on the morning of 13 May 2026. A start date, a...
5.5/7 on Board One and a 2465 Performance: Vietnam's 11-Year-Old Claims an IM Norm, and a Date Still Awaiting VerificationThe board from the final round was not in front of me. I assembled it later —...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: An IM Title on Board One and Its Carbon CopyThe final-round score sheet stayed on the table and nobody picked it up right...
A 2,465 Performance Rating, Seven Games and a Date That Doesn't Fit: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM ClaimThe number first, the story second. Seven games on board one: five wins, one...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Price and Expiry Date of a Repertoire UpdateWhen I pulled the first number out of this review, it was 60 minutes of...
A Fourth Crown in the Silence of St. Louis: Wesley So Beats Caruana in TiebreakThe hall in St. Louis is a room you get used to. Eleven rounds, the same chai...
The Prague 2026 Copy: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Files and a Magazine's Delivery ConditionsBefore I opened the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225, I did what I ha...
Prague Festival 2026: 27 Miniatures, One Database, and a New Entry in Indian Chess's LedgerThree columns, one anomaly, and a season that has to be recorded before it...
Auditing a Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Missing TimestampA review arrived at my desk. The subject was real work: an update to a Black...
An IM at 11 Years 7 Months 16 Days: The Scoresheet Is Clean, the Headline Is Not Yet Finished23 October. Board one. Black pieces. Round seven. One line remained on the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, Three Video Schools and Ten Opening FilesA miniature does not just mean a fast win. It breaks the broadcast rundown at...
Prague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine #225: Auditing a Training System Built on 27 Miniatures“I opened the spreadsheet again, and this time the game started telling a...
60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters and an Undated Review: A Ledger Audit of a Najdorf Update RepertoireSixty minutes. Five line clusters. English. One-off download. That is the onl...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, and a Hall Where No One ClappedFive lines arrived in my inbox on the morning of 13 May 2026. A start date, a...
5.5/7 on Board One and a 2465 Performance: Vietnam's 11-Year-Old Claims an IM Norm, and a Date Still Awaiting VerificationThe board from the final round was not in front of me. I assembled it later —...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: An IM Title on Board One and Its Carbon CopyThe final-round score sheet stayed on the table and nobody picked it up right...
A 2,465 Performance Rating, Seven Games and a Date That Doesn't Fit: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM ClaimThe number first, the story second. Seven games on board one: five wins, one...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Price and Expiry Date of a Repertoire UpdateWhen I pulled the first number out of this review, it was 60 minutes of...
A Fourth Crown in the Silence of St. Louis: Wesley So Beats Caruana in TiebreakThe hall in St. Louis is a room you get used to. Eleven rounds, the same chai...