Game science, competitive mindset, chess and society, personal analyses.
The game tree explodes, Shannon's number is staggering, yet an engine corrects you in seconds. Is chess really 'unsolvable'? Here's what maths, computer science and AI actually do under the hood.
Chess isn't just played on the board. It's played first in your head, before your hand ever touches a piece. A psychological portrait of a player facing themselves.
40 women among 1,700 Grandmasters. The gap isn't biological: it's mathematical, historical and psychological. What the data really says, and why the 'female brain' argument doesn't hold.
It's 3am. You promised yourself it was the last game, but you're launching another one. Can you really be addicted to chess? A breakdown of a silent addiction.
A grandmaster isn't a born genius — they have a trained brain. What MRI scans and neuroscience have discovered about chess players will change how you see post-game fatigue.
For a brain that struggles with social ambiguity, the chessboard is one of the few spaces where rules truly hold. What research actually says about autism and chess, without romanticism or oversimplification.
Playing chess makes you good at maths? The answer isn't what you'd expect — and it radically changes what you should do with a chessboard.
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