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ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Three Opening Schools and a Paywalled Dataset
Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Lesson of #225: Preparation Speaks Before the Clock
An IM Norm at 11 Years 7 Months: The 2465 Performance, the Seven-Game Sample, and a Headline Worth Checking
Eleven Years, 5.5 Points, and an Open Title: Vietnam's Youngest IM Writes New Chess History
Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Lesson of #225: Preparation Speaks Before the ClockIn the tournament hall in Prague, the clock is not the first thing you hear....
An IM Norm at 11 Years 7 Months: The 2465 Performance, the Seven-Game Sample, and a Headline Worth CheckingOctober 23, final round, board one. Black pieces. A player aged eleven years,...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Three Opening Schools and a Paywalled DatasetOne number sits quietly in the contents list of ChessBase Magazine #225: 27...
Eleven Years, 5.5 Points, and an Open Title: Vietnam's Youngest IM Writes New Chess HistoryOn an October afternoon, in a hall where the only sound was the dry click of...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet With No Moves on ItOn the morning of 13 May 2026, in a prison yard whose name appears in no pres...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Najdorf: A Board-side Review of Daniel King's FritzTrainer UpdateI opened the notebook at board 27 and found the tournament nobody streamed. D...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — and an Entry List With No NamesIn any tournament I read the entry list before the crosstable. The crosstable...
One Headline, Two Ledgers: Rachel Li, the Scandinavian Defence, and a 60-Minute Audit ReportOne Headline, Two Ledgers: Rachel Li, the Scandinavian Defence, and a 60-Minu...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks for a Fourth US Title — the Real Story Is the ClockThe clock in that Kolkata office ran eleven minutes fast. Nobody noticed but...
Four Numbers and a Missing Year in the September List: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a DocumentThe September release list arrived with four numbers and one missing date. Th...