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European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik strongest on paper, and why 65 Elo points per board settles nothing
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik Enters the Race with a 2715 Average Team Elo
The Move Left Out of the Books: Why a Dismissed Gambit Survives at Club Level
The Scotch: From Kasparov's Weapon to Mikhalchishin's 'Antidote'
ChessBase Game of the Week #743: Fourteen Years, One Presenter, and the Games No One Remembers
ChessBase Magazine No. 225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures and a Cover Named Bent Larsen
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: A False Chess Headline and What It CostsChengdu, 31 August 2026 On 3 October 2026, in Batumi, Georgia, 181 ballots we...
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik and the 2715 Elo ProblemAt round three of the European Club Cup in Budva, one number stands motionles...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik strongest on paper, and why 65 Elo points per board settles nothingBudva, round three. On the European Club Cup pairing board, twenty-five teams...
European Club Cup: Bayegan Pendik Enters the Race with a 2715 Average Team EloIntroduction On the bulletin board of the European Club Cup (ECC) in Budva,...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik, a 2715 Average and a 115-Point Gap Per BoardBudva, round three. The wall board shows 25 teams on 2/2 after two rounds, an...
The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Beautiful Promise and the Empty Space in the Middle of the BoardTuesday evening, a cafe at the end of Nguyen Chi Thanh street in Da Nang. The...
Total Chess proposes a unified rating system — and ten weeks to prove it existsOn 29 August 2026, a short release about a chess event in Budapest went out. ...
ChessBase #225: The European Club Cup in the Headline, 27 Miniatures InsideThe file arrived on a late-autumn afternoon in Saint Petersburg, just as the...
European Club Cup and the Lesson of a 27-Game Magazine: When Data Lives Not in the Result but in How People Explain ItIn the commentary box in Nizhny Novgorod in 2026, I recorded a number that...
The Move Left Out of the Books: Why a Dismissed Gambit Survives at Club LevelThere is a moment in a chess game when the board has not yet been touched. On...
The First Move of the Personalized Training Era: When Chess Escapes the Shadow of StockfishData does not lie. But in 2057, we are the ones deceiving ourselves when we...
The Bayonet Attack and the 9...a5 Move: When the King's Indian Defense Chooses Strategy Over MemoryIn my study in Nha Trang, I still keep the habit of writing down every King's...
US Chess Championship: Woodward Takes Down Caruana, Lee Widens the Gap — and What Really Lies Behind the HeadlineShanghai at night, rain falling. I sat in front of the screen, my coffee long...
