Chess
Chigorin's Name, Italian's Trap: The Colour Crisis in the 60-Minute Course Market
The Empty List, the Full Board: The Ledger Bangladesh Chess Cannot Keep
Chess Coverage in a Data Void: No Analysis Without Verification
Standing Before the Clock: The 2026/87 Bundesliga Rules War, Bodhana, and Bangladesh's Empty Board
Ding Liren's Loss in Shenzhen: The Headline Nobody in the Press Room Verified
Is Chess Really Inexpressive? A Badminton Star's Remark, the Eval Bar, and the Ledger of Watchability
Hit by Nakamura's Own Weapon: Why Sindarov's Win Before the World Championship Is Only RapidOn the board in Saint Louis, the game sailed to move 17 as an exact replay of...
Chigorin's Name, Italian's Trap: The Colour Crisis in the 60-Minute Course MarketFour minutes into the video, the screen shows a position: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6...
The Empty List, the Full Board: The Ledger Bangladesh Chess Cannot KeepChennai, July 2026. The Olympiad hall held 188 open teams and 162 women's tea...
Chess Coverage in a Data Void: No Analysis Without VerificationA chess analysis report was halted just before publication after it emerged...
A Sentence That Crossed Three Languages: Carlsen's AI Confession and the Open Ledger of Chess EconomicsOn the night of 21 October I opened my laptop in a small Khulna flat. The...
9...a5: In the King's Indian Market, Confidence Outsells Proof1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4...
Standing Before the Clock: The 2026/87 Bundesliga Rules War, Bodhana, and Bangladesh's Empty BoardOn an evening in 2026, a clock started at a German Chess Bundesliga match and...
Ding Liren's Loss in Shenzhen: The Headline Nobody in the Press Room VerifiedIn the final round of the Shenzhen Masters, Yu Yangyi defeated Ding Liren. Th...
Caruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body: An Autopsy of Chess Media's Advertorial EconomyHook: A page with a news face and an advertisement's body Late on a Saturday...
Is Chess Really Inexpressive? A Badminton Star's Remark, the Eval Bar, and the Ledger of WatchabilityWorking on Bangladesh's chess, I have picked up one habit — I lay the board o...
The Headline With No Bent Larsen in It: An X-Ray of Chess's Paid-Content MarketI opened the product page for ChessBase Magazine #225 one morning, before my...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf Under a 'FIDE General Assembly' Headline: The Fracture in Chess's Information FlowAt 11:45 at night, rain is tapping the glass of a Penang flat, and the headli...
The Headline Said FIDE General Assembly 2026; the Body Was the Najdorf — An Audit of a Feed ErrorAn item landed in my feed last week. The headline read: Main decisions of the...
Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: A Defense Sold on Carlsen's Name, and the Real Arithmetic of the Club RoomIn a club room in Khulna, last Tuesday at half past nine, a sixty-minute vide...
FIDE Ratings October 2026: A Startling Promotion of Defense Against the Scotch OpeningA recently surfaced report titled 'FIDE Ratings - October 2026' has sparked...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense: The Gap Between a Commercial DVD's Claims and Verifiable EvidenceA promotional product introduction for a King's Indian Defense repertoire DVD...
Twenty-One Points in Budapest and Eleven Lakh in Purana Paltan: How India's First Chess Olympiad Gold Reopened Bangladesh's Ledger22 September 2026, Budapest. As the team scoreboard in the Hungarian capital...
Board Four in Samarkand: Gukesh's 54 Moves, India's Gold Arithmetic and an Open LedgerBoard four. The clock in the Samarkand hall has gone past five hours. D Gukes...
Samarkand Round 8: Germany’s Win in the Headline, a Scandinavian Defense Course in the BodyAfter years of watching matches, I have learned one thing: when the headline...
The Sword of Damocles: The One-Hour Promise and the Uncovered Square of the Scandinavian DefenseOn a monsoon evening I was sitting in a small club room in Penang. The wooden...
Sword of Damocles: The 60-Minute Promise of the Scandinavian Defense and Its Incomplete Arithmetic1...d5. On the board it is one move; on the clock it is a cost. After 2.exd5...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Elite Annotation, 27 Miniatures, and the Ledger Dhaka Never KeepsThe masthead said Samarkand. Round eight. A women's team event. China leading...
Chigorin's Name, Italian's Trap: The Colour Crisis in the 60-Minute Course MarketFour minutes into the video, the screen shows a position: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6...
The Empty List, the Full Board: The Ledger Bangladesh Chess Cannot KeepChennai, July 2026. The Olympiad hall held 188 open teams and 162 women's tea...
Chess Coverage in a Data Void: No Analysis Without VerificationA chess analysis report was halted just before publication after it emerged...
A Sentence That Crossed Three Languages: Carlsen's AI Confession and the Open Ledger of Chess EconomicsOn the night of 21 October I opened my laptop in a small Khulna flat. The...
9...a5: In the King's Indian Market, Confidence Outsells Proof1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.b4...
Standing Before the Clock: The 2026/87 Bundesliga Rules War, Bodhana, and Bangladesh's Empty BoardOn an evening in 2026, a clock started at a German Chess Bundesliga match and...
Ding Liren's Loss in Shenzhen: The Headline Nobody in the Press Room VerifiedIn the final round of the Shenzhen Masters, Yu Yangyi defeated Ding Liren. Th...
Caruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body: An Autopsy of Chess Media's Advertorial EconomyHook: A page with a news face and an advertisement's body Late on a Saturday...
Is Chess Really Inexpressive? A Badminton Star's Remark, the Eval Bar, and the Ledger of WatchabilityWorking on Bangladesh's chess, I have picked up one habit — I lay the board o...
The Headline With No Bent Larsen in It: An X-Ray of Chess's Paid-Content MarketI opened the product page for ChessBase Magazine #225 one morning, before my...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf Under a 'FIDE General Assembly' Headline: The Fracture in Chess's Information FlowAt 11:45 at night, rain is tapping the glass of a Penang flat, and the headli...
The Headline Said FIDE General Assembly 2026; the Body Was the Najdorf — An Audit of a Feed ErrorAn item landed in my feed last week. The headline read: Main decisions of the...
Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: A Defense Sold on Carlsen's Name, and the Real Arithmetic of the Club RoomIn a club room in Khulna, last Tuesday at half past nine, a sixty-minute vide...
FIDE Ratings October 2026: A Startling Promotion of Defense Against the Scotch OpeningA recently surfaced report titled 'FIDE Ratings - October 2026' has sparked...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense: The Gap Between a Commercial DVD's Claims and Verifiable EvidenceA promotional product introduction for a King's Indian Defense repertoire DVD...
Twenty-One Points in Budapest and Eleven Lakh in Purana Paltan: How India's First Chess Olympiad Gold Reopened Bangladesh's Ledger22 September 2026, Budapest. As the team scoreboard in the Hungarian capital...
Board Four in Samarkand: Gukesh's 54 Moves, India's Gold Arithmetic and an Open LedgerBoard four. The clock in the Samarkand hall has gone past five hours. D Gukes...
Samarkand Round 8: Germany’s Win in the Headline, a Scandinavian Defense Course in the BodyAfter years of watching matches, I have learned one thing: when the headline...
The Sword of Damocles: The One-Hour Promise and the Uncovered Square of the Scandinavian DefenseOn a monsoon evening I was sitting in a small club room in Penang. The wooden...
Sword of Damocles: The 60-Minute Promise of the Scandinavian Defense and Its Incomplete Arithmetic1...d5. On the board it is one move; on the clock it is a cost. After 2.exd5...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Elite Annotation, 27 Miniatures, and the Ledger Dhaka Never KeepsThe masthead said Samarkand. Round eight. A women's team event. China leading...