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ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and a Date Nobody Printed
ChessBase Magazine #225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and a Missing Date
108 Teams in Budva, a 2715 Average, and a Headline That Pointed at Barcelona
A 2465 Performance Rating, 5.5/7 on Board One — And a Name Missing From the File
A 2465 Performance Rating, 5.5/7 on Board One — And a Name Missing From the File5.5/7 on board one. Seven games, five wins, one draw, one loss. A performance...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Came in a Tiebreak — But the Story That Ran It Had No Moves in ItThe page opens and the headline does all the work: Wesley So beat Fabiano...
One Headline, Two Openings: The Poisoned Queen and the Elephant in the RoomThe course is titled "Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation". The buyer pays,...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Prague 2026 Annotation File, and the Year It Left OutThree numbers sat on the September release page: ten opening articles,...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, Giri–Abdusattorov Looms in Round FourThe standings sheet that surfaced after three rounds had eleven open-section...
The 2715 in Budva: Where Board Order, Not the Average, Decides the TitleIn the hotel-conference hall in Budva, the board-order sheets went up on the...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, and the Missing NATO CrosstableSixty minutes. Five line clusters. And a headline telling the story of a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Five Lines, and a Headline That Never Matched the BodyI opened the file and the first line carried exactly the name I was looking f...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and a Date Nobody PrintedThe first thing that snagged, reading through the September release list, was...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and a Missing DateI read ChessBase's "All new releases in September!" page three times last wee...
Twenty-Four Chairs in Budapest and One Sentence We Turned Into a MemeAt half past eight on the morning of 10 November, twenty-four chairs were bei...
Carlsen at 35 and the Five-Hour Ceiling: The Rewritten Arithmetic of Preparation Before BudapestIn the interview published by Marca on 21 October (original source: AS), one...
108 Teams in Budva, a 2715 Average, and a Headline That Pointed at BarcelonaThe brief that landed on my desk in the third week of October 2026 carried a...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Came in a Tiebreak — But the Story That Ran It Had No Moves in ItThe page opens and the headline does all the work: Wesley So beat Fabiano...
One Headline, Two Openings: The Poisoned Queen and the Elephant in the RoomThe course is titled "Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation". The buyer pays,...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Prague 2026 Annotation File, and the Year It Left OutThree numbers sat on the September release page: ten opening articles,...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, Giri–Abdusattorov Looms in Round FourThe standings sheet that surfaced after three rounds had eleven open-section...
The 2715 in Budva: Where Board Order, Not the Average, Decides the TitleIn the hotel-conference hall in Budva, the board-order sheets went up on the...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, and the Missing NATO CrosstableSixty minutes. Five line clusters. And a headline telling the story of a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Five Lines, and a Headline That Never Matched the BodyI opened the file and the first line carried exactly the name I was looking f...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and a Date Nobody PrintedThe first thing that snagged, reading through the September release list, was...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and a Missing DateI read ChessBase's "All new releases in September!" page three times last wee...
Twenty-Four Chairs in Budapest and One Sentence We Turned Into a MemeAt half past eight on the morning of 10 November, twenty-four chairs were bei...
Carlsen at 35 and the Five-Hour Ceiling: The Rewritten Arithmetic of Preparation Before BudapestIn the interview published by Marca on 21 October (original source: AS), one...
108 Teams in Budva, a 2715 Average, and a Headline That Pointed at BarcelonaThe brief that landed on my desk in the third week of October 2026 carried a...