Chess
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Plan Each: The Uneven Ledger of Black's Preparation Against 1.d42026-10-27On Tuesday evening, on board three at the Rangpur club, a sixteen-year-old lo...
When a Chess Magazine Learns English, and a Championship Sits in One Patron's Shadow2026-10-07In October 2026, twenty-four players will sit in front of twenty-four clocks ...
The Tsaghkadzor Crown and a King's Indian DVD: The Crack Inside Chess Coverage2026-10-04I sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue — the...
Valeri Lilov's Six Videos on Chess: Turlov's Claim and the Chess Education Market2026-10-01Hook d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3. After these three moves, the position on the boa...
Gukesh’s 54-Move Houdini in Samarkand: India’s Gold Hopes Rest on One Board2026-09-27At first glance the Round 9 scorecard from Samarkand looked like a typo. Thre...
A Prague File Under a Samarkand Headline: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of Paid Training2026-09-26The headline said Samarkand. The file said Prague. In the back half of 2026 a...
ChessChess Analysis Stalls: No Player, Tournament, or Game Data ProvidedThe supplied analysis does not identify a match, player, or tournament, so it...
ChessChess Reporting Needs Evidence: Eight Analytical Dimensions Remain UnresolvedA chess result cannot establish a player's full competitive strength, and a...
ChessHeartbeats in Paltan: Bangladesh's Ailing Institution at the Chessboard5 July 2026, Purana Paltan's chess hall. One move, then silence. Ziaur Rahman...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings, One Plan Each: The Uneven Ledger of Black's Preparation Against 1.d4On Tuesday evening, on board three at the Rangpur club, a sixteen-year-old lo...
ChessSixty Minutes of Defence: The Scandinavian Market and the Broken Supply Line of Chess KnowledgeAt a quarter past two one night last week, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I open...
ChessThe Headline Without a Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Factory of Chess MemoryLast week a single sentence stopped me — short, clean, and utterly incomplete...
ChessEmpty Squares, Open Board: The Courage to Write 'Insufficient Information' in Chess AnalysisAt two in the morning in Dublin I opened the file. Eight analytical dimension...
ChessCounting Heartbeats in Paltan: The Illusion of Learning Chess in 60 MinutesI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
Chess5.e5! — The Italian Game Modern Variation: Why It Wins at Club Boards and Where It BreaksWhite is a pawn down. The clock, though, is running faster for Black. The...
ChessWhen a Chess Magazine Learns English, and a Championship Sits in One Patron's ShadowIn October 2026, twenty-four players will sit in front of twenty-four clocks ...
ChessFrom Tsaghkadzor to the King's Indian: The Headline–Body Gap in Chess MediaHook Late on a Delhi night, a headline lit up the screen in a festive key:...
ChessFrom Tsaghkadzor to 9...a5: Two Different Games Hidden Between a Headline and a BoardHook: A Page Opened at 12:30 a.m. Last week I opened a page at half past...
ChessThe Tsaghkadzor Crown and a King's Indian DVD: The Crack Inside Chess CoverageI sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue — the...
ChessValeri Lilov's Six Videos on Chess: Turlov's Claim and the Chess Education MarketHook d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3. After these three moves, the position on the boa...
ChessGukesh’s 54-Move Houdini in Samarkand: India’s Gold Hopes Rest on One BoardAt first glance the Round 9 scorecard from Samarkand looked like a typo. Thre...
ChessThe King Walked, the Move List Didn't: Auditing the Receipts of the 5.e5 LineThe headline said Alexei Sarana took his king for a walk at the Olympiad. The...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the File: The Hidden Arithmetic of the Chess Training MarketThe file took about forty seconds to open on a secondhand laptop in a bedroom...
ChessSword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Defense and a Claim Whose Receipt Has Not Been FiledThirteen bullet points. A video course sales page. Inside those thirteen...
ChessA Prague File Under a Samarkand Headline: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of Paid TrainingThe headline said Samarkand. The file said Prague. In the back half of 2026 a...
ChessA Hanging Sword and a Rented Hour: Reading the Sales Pitch of the Scandinavian DefenseIn November 2026, at the chess hall in Purana Paltan, I found Niaz Murshed's...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 at Samarkand: The Fifth Board, a Tired Clock, and a Family LedgerIn the Samarkand playing hall, the clock had crossed five hours. On the same...
ChessThe Label Lies: ChessBase Magazine #225, Rented Training and Bangladesh's LedgerThe folder was labelled Samarkand R8. I opened it expecting a women's...
ChessSamarkand’s Scoreline and a 60-Minute Scandinavian: An Autopsy of a Broken HeadlineThe headline sounded like a Round 8 result: “Samarkand R8 (open): Germany stu...
ChessSamarkand's Headline, Scandinavian's Body: The Chess 'News' That Fails the Tape TestJuly 5, 2026, afternoon. The national championship was underway at the BCF ha...
ChessThe Label Said Samarkand; the Folder Held Prague — 27 Miniatures and Chess's Unwritten IndexHalf past midnight in a rented flat in Delhi. A laptop on a small table, a cu...