Chess
Elephant Gambit: How Effective Is This Aggressive Chess Weapon Behind Its Element of Surprise?
2715: What the Budva Entry List Says, and What Two Rounds Don't
Behind the Sicilian Flash: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the New Address of Chess Knowledge
The Page That Forgot Its Own Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Anatomy of a Misfiled Record
The Scandinavian Defense in One Hour: Where the Promise Stops Working on the Board
Elephant Gambit: How Effective Is This Aggressive Chess Weapon Behind Its Element of Surprise?Elephant Gambit: How Effective Is This Aggressive Chess Weapon Behind Its...
Sindarov Strikes Nakamura in His Own Pet Line: The Real Form Signal Before the World ChampionshipWhen Javokhir Sindarov defeated Hikaru Nakamura with the black pieces in a 10...
European Club Cup: Board One Sells Tickets, Boards Three to Six Win MatchesThe team sheet that circulates among captains the night before a round never...
2715: What the Budva Entry List Says, and What Two Rounds Don'tOn the wall beside the hall in Budva there is an entry list, and beside every...
Eleven Months, 1,240 Games: The Journalist Who Redefined Crypto DataWhen the last photograph of a chess board stopped being captured, data...
Sixty Minutes of Elephant: Who Actually Carries the Risk in Chess's Surprise-Weapon MarketFriday, 9:30 p.m., the second floor of an old club room in Penang. Two of the...
Testimony of an Empty Column: Bangladesh's Chess Records, the Blockchain Ledger, and the Missing Sixth GrandmasterThe first thing I saw when I opened the file was not a move. It was a blank...
One Result, One Headline: The Ledger Nobody Opened Behind Liang–NiemannHook Within hours of the first round at the US Chess Championship, a single...
Is Chess a 'Silent' Game to the Spectator? An Accounting of Expressiveness and WatchabilityIn recent weeks a single sentence has accumulated in my notebook, and beside...
Not Undervalued, Underfunded: The Course Market for System Openings and Dhaka's Tk 11 Lakh LedgerOn the second-floor veranda of the Bangladesh Chess Federation building in...
Behind the Sicilian Flash: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the New Address of Chess KnowledgeLate last month, a little before midnight in my Penang flat, a headline stopp...
A Table of Contents With No Game Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Economics of Chess Content1. Hook: What One Missing Letter Doesn't Leave Out On a cold January morning,...
From 138 to 225: Heartbeats in Paltan, Screen-Board Wounds, and the Weight of Chess Training MaterialZero: Two Documents, One Wrong Header In April 2026 I flew from Boston to Dha...
The Page That Forgot Its Own Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Anatomy of a Misfiled RecordThe file was labelled “Samarkand R8 (women): China lead with 15/16.” Open it...
Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and a Missing ReceiptThirteen numbered points. One of them says that Magnus Carlsen has used this...
The Scandinavian Defense in One Hour: Where the Promise Stops Working on the BoardLast month at a club match in Mymensingh, the moves arrived one after another...
Samarkand in the Title, ChessBase Inside — One Mislabeled File and Bangladesh's Lost PipelineThe file stops my hand before I even read it properly. The top line says...
You Cannot Dress Black in Sixty Minutes: The Scandinavian Course, the Carlsen Claim, and One LedgerThe 2026 Premier Division Chess League signing window lasted nineteen days. I...
The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Name and One Empty Square: Auditing the Claims of a 60-Minute CourseThere is a line in the course description that carries no date. It says Magnu...
Samarkand's Scorecard, Prague's Catalogue: Where Chess Media's Metadata BreaksSeven in the morning at a Bangalore desk. Before the coffee goes cold, one li...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Sources: The Money Ledger of Black's Defence MarketThe steel cupboard at Purana Paltan still smells of paper, and the coffee rin...
What Seven Wins Do Not Show: A Reserve Board in Samarkand and the Arithmetic of Family-Funded ChessThe Samarkand Thursday round arrived in my Mymensingh bedroom split across tw...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Catalogue Economy Beneath Chess's Magic HeadlineThe folder opens and you stop at the first line. At the top, in large type:...
Sindarov Strikes Nakamura in His Own Pet Line: The Real Form Signal Before the World ChampionshipWhen Javokhir Sindarov defeated Hikaru Nakamura with the black pieces in a 10...
European Club Cup: Board One Sells Tickets, Boards Three to Six Win MatchesThe team sheet that circulates among captains the night before a round never...
2715: What the Budva Entry List Says, and What Two Rounds Don'tOn the wall beside the hall in Budva there is an entry list, and beside every...
Eleven Months, 1,240 Games: The Journalist Who Redefined Crypto DataWhen the last photograph of a chess board stopped being captured, data...
Sixty Minutes of Elephant: Who Actually Carries the Risk in Chess's Surprise-Weapon MarketFriday, 9:30 p.m., the second floor of an old club room in Penang. Two of the...
Testimony of an Empty Column: Bangladesh's Chess Records, the Blockchain Ledger, and the Missing Sixth GrandmasterThe first thing I saw when I opened the file was not a move. It was a blank...
One Result, One Headline: The Ledger Nobody Opened Behind Liang–NiemannHook Within hours of the first round at the US Chess Championship, a single...
Is Chess a 'Silent' Game to the Spectator? An Accounting of Expressiveness and WatchabilityIn recent weeks a single sentence has accumulated in my notebook, and beside...
Not Undervalued, Underfunded: The Course Market for System Openings and Dhaka's Tk 11 Lakh LedgerOn the second-floor veranda of the Bangladesh Chess Federation building in...
Behind the Sicilian Flash: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the New Address of Chess KnowledgeLate last month, a little before midnight in my Penang flat, a headline stopp...
A Table of Contents With No Game Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Economics of Chess Content1. Hook: What One Missing Letter Doesn't Leave Out On a cold January morning,...
From 138 to 225: Heartbeats in Paltan, Screen-Board Wounds, and the Weight of Chess Training MaterialZero: Two Documents, One Wrong Header In April 2026 I flew from Boston to Dha...
The Page That Forgot Its Own Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Anatomy of a Misfiled RecordThe file was labelled “Samarkand R8 (women): China lead with 15/16.” Open it...
Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and a Missing ReceiptThirteen numbered points. One of them says that Magnus Carlsen has used this...
The Scandinavian Defense in One Hour: Where the Promise Stops Working on the BoardLast month at a club match in Mymensingh, the moves arrived one after another...
Samarkand in the Title, ChessBase Inside — One Mislabeled File and Bangladesh's Lost PipelineThe file stops my hand before I even read it properly. The top line says...
You Cannot Dress Black in Sixty Minutes: The Scandinavian Course, the Carlsen Claim, and One LedgerThe 2026 Premier Division Chess League signing window lasted nineteen days. I...
The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Name and One Empty Square: Auditing the Claims of a 60-Minute CourseThere is a line in the course description that carries no date. It says Magnu...
Samarkand's Scorecard, Prague's Catalogue: Where Chess Media's Metadata BreaksSeven in the morning at a Bangalore desk. Before the coffee goes cold, one li...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Sources: The Money Ledger of Black's Defence MarketThe steel cupboard at Purana Paltan still smells of paper, and the coffee rin...
What Seven Wins Do Not Show: A Reserve Board in Samarkand and the Arithmetic of Family-Funded ChessThe Samarkand Thursday round arrived in my Mymensingh bedroom split across tw...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Catalogue Economy Beneath Chess's Magic HeadlineThe folder opens and you stop at the first line. At the top, in large type:...