Game science, competitive mindset, chess and society, personal analyses.
Magnus Carlsen is the greatest player in history. He's earned around $2 million in prize money over his entire career. An average Top 100 tennis player earns that in a single year. What's really going on in chess economics?
Why do some openings last decades without being refuted? The Nash equilibrium explains the stability of theoretical variations and the deep logic of chess openings.
Figures from recent literature: meta-analyses, cohorts, and trials on board games, cognitive stimulation, and dementia risk, with statistical limits and what chess can (really) bring.
Chess has a mathematical truth no one knows. Zermelo proved it in 1913: the result under perfect play is determined in advance. But this theoretical certainty hides a fascinating practical vertigo.
Most players spend 80% of their time on openings. The 40-40-20 rule says the opposite: 40% tactics, 40% endgames, 20% openings. Why? And does it actually work?
Chess is the founding ground of game theory. Minimax, Nash equilibrium, perfect information: a mathematical breakdown of what is really happening when you play.
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.
A grandmaster isn't a born genius: they have a trained brain. Structural MRI, functional connectivity, chronnectome, executive functions: here is what neuroscience research actually measures about chess players' brains.
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