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The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: The Most Useful Chess Book Is the One That Looks Like a Loss
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Denominator the Brochure Leaves Out
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and a New Map for Opening Preparation
Prague Festival's 27 Miniatures: Lessons and Opportunities for Indian Chess
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening Articles: The Training Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and a New Map for Opening PreparationTen past one in the morning. Only one light was on in the Hyderabad flat — th...
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: The Most Useful Chess Book Is the One That Looks Like a LossI did not stop at the names on the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225....
Prague Festival's 27 Miniatures: Lessons and Opportunities for Indian ChessThe most talked-about thing from the Prague Chess Festival 2026 wasn't a titl...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening Articles: The Training Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225Twenty-seven miniatures. Twenty-seven short, decisive games inside a single...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Denominator the Brochure Leaves OutI opened the Prague file and started counting. Twenty-seven miniatures. That...
Pricing the Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Currency That DecaysSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Roughly twelve minutes each. That is the...
A 2465 Performance, Seven Games and One Blank Field: The Real Question in the 11-Year-Old IM Story Is VerificationLast week, opening a team event's results page, I found a line in the board-o...
A 2,465 Performance Rating at Eleven: Three Empty Cells in the IM ArithmeticOn 23 October, a girl of eleven scored 5.5 points from seven rounds on board...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: A 2,465 Performance and the Unresolved Date of an IM TitleFinal round, board one. Black pieces. The report mentions a gambit line but...
An 11-Year-Old's IM Claim: 2465 Performance, 5.5/7, and a Timeline Still Awaiting AuditThe board one pieces were black. In the seventh and final round, an 11-year-o...
The Najdorf Maintenance Bill: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and the Expiry Date of a RepertoireSixty minutes. Five line clusters. The arithmetic needs no calculator — eleve...
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams Is a Logistics Figure, Not a Performance RecordBetween May 13 and May 23, 2026, 77 teams from five continents took part in t...
An IM Claim at 11 Years 7 Months: Vietnam's Board-One Girl, a 2,465 Performance, and a Date That Runs Ahead of the CalendarA sheet of paper on my desk reads: born 2026, age 11 years 7 months 16 days,...
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: The Most Useful Chess Book Is the One That Looks Like a LossI did not stop at the names on the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225....
Prague Festival's 27 Miniatures: Lessons and Opportunities for Indian ChessThe most talked-about thing from the Prague Chess Festival 2026 wasn't a titl...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening Articles: The Training Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225Twenty-seven miniatures. Twenty-seven short, decisive games inside a single...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Denominator the Brochure Leaves OutI opened the Prague file and started counting. Twenty-seven miniatures. That...
Pricing the Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Currency That DecaysSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Roughly twelve minutes each. That is the...
A 2465 Performance, Seven Games and One Blank Field: The Real Question in the 11-Year-Old IM Story Is VerificationLast week, opening a team event's results page, I found a line in the board-o...
A 2,465 Performance Rating at Eleven: Three Empty Cells in the IM ArithmeticOn 23 October, a girl of eleven scored 5.5 points from seven rounds on board...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: A 2,465 Performance and the Unresolved Date of an IM TitleFinal round, board one. Black pieces. The report mentions a gambit line but...
An 11-Year-Old's IM Claim: 2465 Performance, 5.5/7, and a Timeline Still Awaiting AuditThe board one pieces were black. In the seventh and final round, an 11-year-o...
The Najdorf Maintenance Bill: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and the Expiry Date of a RepertoireSixty minutes. Five line clusters. The arithmetic needs no calculator — eleve...
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams Is a Logistics Figure, Not a Performance RecordBetween May 13 and May 23, 2026, 77 teams from five continents took part in t...
An IM Claim at 11 Years 7 Months: Vietnam's Board-One Girl, a 2,465 Performance, and a Date That Runs Ahead of the CalendarA sheet of paper on my desk reads: born 2026, age 11 years 7 months 16 days,...