Chess
Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Labour That Never Makes the CoverLast week at a club in Queens I stood behind a sixty-year-old player opening...
The Prague Room: Chess's Real Story Is Filed Inside 27 MiniaturesThe carpet on the conference floor in Prague still held the damp of winter....
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Three Opening Videos and One Missing Denominator27. That was the first number I saw. On the contents page of ChessBase Magazi...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles, and the Notes Players Write Against ThemselvesTwenty-two minutes past one at night. In a flat in Indiranagar the laptop fan...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Festival's 27 Miniature Bombs and 10 Opening Repertoire Ideas — But the Real Question Is, Training Material for Whom?When the list of 27 miniatures from the Prague Chess Festival 2026 surfaced, ...
27 Miniatures and 10 Opening Articles: The Content Schedule of ChessBase Magazine #225 Is a ReceiptA magazine's table of contents sometimes speaks more plainly than the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, Aravindh's Annotations, and the Archive India Hasn't Built11:40 pm, Kolkata. The download finished and the PDF of issue 225 opened. For...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Real Bill for LearningThere is a spreadsheet from 2026 still alive on my laptop. Hyderabad...
Half-Filled Chairs in Prague and 27 Miniatures: Aravindh, Giri, Gurel and Navara Inside the Layers of ChessBase Magazine #225The hall in Prague was half-full in the last week of February. Mid-sized...
Prague's 27 Miniatures: Chess Records Its Losses in the Clock, Not the BookPrague's 27 Miniatures: Chess Records Its Losses in the Clock, Not the Book...
An IM Claim at Eleven: The 2,465 Performance Rating Is Real; the Calendar Has Not Signed Off YetOn 23 October, an eleven-year-old sat at board one and scored 5.5/7 — five...
The Room with the Window: Inside the 77-Team, Five-Continent Chessboard the World Does Not WatchWhen a team from Serbia won its final board, the room was left with only the...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, Zero Dates: Auditing a Najdorf Repertoire UpdateOne column stayed in my head: runtime. Reading the review, everything else...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak, Wins Fourth US Chess Championship TitleA tiebreak board is the one place where the score sheet goes silent. When...
Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters and One Unnamed Review: Who Signs the Najdorf Receipt?Eleven at night in a Hyderabad flat. The laptop is open, the first round of a...
