Chess
Three Formats, One Crown: Total Chess Challenges Traditional Rating Systems with a Unified Measure
A Century-Old Rule, a One-Hour Clock: Israel's Unauthorized Forfeit in Samarkand
The Empty File Is the Evidence: Why Bangladesh's Missing Sixth Grandmaster Is a Data-Integrity Failure
Wednesday on Screen: A Decade-Long Show, a Delayed Norm and the Silent Economy of Chess Broadcasting
A Knight to October 8, Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague: Auditing a Headline-Body Mismatch
5.e5: A Small Rebellion in the Italian Game, and a Promise That Has Not Yet Stood Before an Engine
ChessWhere Is the Chess Story? Why an Information-Empty Analysis Proves NothingThe most important move in a chess report is sometimes made away from the...
ChessThree Formats, One Crown: Total Chess Challenges Traditional Rating Systems with a Unified MeasureThe most important contest at the Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot i...
ChessSixty Minutes for a Black Repertoire: The Petroff, the Scandinavian, and the Market for PreparationIt is half past eleven at night. On a laptop screen in a bedroom in Mymensing...
ChessA Century-Old Rule, a One-Hour Clock: Israel's Unauthorized Forfeit in SamarkandBefore Round 5, the boards were moved to the Savitsky Hotel in Samarkand, and...
ChessChigorin Defence or Italian Game: In the 60-Minute Repertoire Market, the Colour and the Citation Do Not Add UpSixty minutes, not sixty-four. The series is called 60 Minutes, so the runtim...
ChessA Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Sales Pitch: The News That Isn't There Around the WFCC Grand Prix FinalThe United Arab Emirates emirate of Fujairah will host the WFCC Grand Prix...
ChessDeep Analysis Not Possible: Empty Output, Missing InputThis piece is not a sports report — it explains why the requested report was...
ChessShadow of Budget on the Chess Board: Strength vs Institution at the European Club CupWalking into the ballroom of a Budva hotel on a Wednesday afternoon, the firs...
ChessBudva's Six Boards: The 2715 Gap, and the Institutional Gap Nobody MeasuresThe table sat frozen on the screen at half past eleven on the night of 19...
ChessThe 9...a5 Ledger: A ‘Bayonet Antidote’ Claim and the Accounting of Engine-Era PreparationTwo sentences in a DVD blurb stop you cold when you read them back to back. T...
ChessWhere the Headline Leaves the Board: Behind 'Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027,' a 60-Minute Scandinavian PromiseI have an old habit — before reading any piece, I read the headline and the...
ChessThe Empty File Is the Evidence: Why Bangladesh's Missing Sixth Grandmaster Is a Data-Integrity FailureWinter, 2026. In the room beside a small chess academy in Mymensingh, I opene...
ChessWednesday on Screen: A Decade-Long Show, a Delayed Norm and the Silent Economy of Chess BroadcastingHook On a Wednesday evening in Mymensingh, when the broadband drops, I hold t...
ChessBeating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 - Seriously? Board One in Samarkand, a 2504 Performance, and the Question Hidden Behind a HeadlineBeating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 - Seriously? Board One in Samarkand, a 2504...
ChessA FIDE General Assembly Headline, a 60-Minute Najdorf Update Inside: Auditing Chess’s Information PipelineLast week, at half past midnight, I opened my laptop and scrolled a chess fee...
ChessA Knight to October 8, Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague: Auditing a Headline-Body MismatchI read the headline twice. Once on a quick scan, and once again after I had...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Deep Analysis of Chess Festival Prague 2026 and New Horizons in Training ContentChessBase Magazine #225: Deep Analysis of Chess Festival Prague 2026 and New...
ChessSix Videos, Five Grandmasters: The System-Opening Market and Bangladesh's Unfinished LedgerI began tagging moves, and the moves began to sort themselves. Last week,...
ChessIndia's First Chess Olympiad Gold: Won on the Bench, Not on the BoardBudapest, final round. In the tournament hall the loudest voice belongs not t...
Chess45.Rd1: A Tired Nervous System, a Rejected Draw, and India's Silver Arithmetic at SamarkandAt the board in Samarkand the clock had just crossed the fifth hour. On Savit...
Chess5.e5! — Erigaisi, Sveshnikov and the Fourth-Hour Blood Pressure of a Club LineI once counted heartbeats in Paltan. April 2026, the Premier Division Chess...
ChessFIDE Presidential Election: The Headline Story, and the Najdorf UpdateIn the two-story room of Purana Paltan, the steel cupboard still catches the...
Chess5.e5: A Small Rebellion in the Italian Game, and a Promise That Has Not Yet Stood Before an EngineHook: A pawn on e5, and a knight without an address The move looks harmless....
ChessA King's Walk With No Scoresheet: The Italian Gambit's Promise and the Club Player's LedgerSix in the evening in Khulna. The tea is going cold and a headline is burning...
ChessThree Formats, One Crown: Total Chess Challenges Traditional Rating Systems with a Unified MeasureThe most important contest at the Total Chess World Championship Tour pilot i...
ChessSixty Minutes for a Black Repertoire: The Petroff, the Scandinavian, and the Market for PreparationIt is half past eleven at night. On a laptop screen in a bedroom in Mymensing...
ChessA Century-Old Rule, a One-Hour Clock: Israel's Unauthorized Forfeit in SamarkandBefore Round 5, the boards were moved to the Savitsky Hotel in Samarkand, and...
ChessChigorin Defence or Italian Game: In the 60-Minute Repertoire Market, the Colour and the Citation Do Not Add UpSixty minutes, not sixty-four. The series is called 60 Minutes, so the runtim...
ChessA Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Sales Pitch: The News That Isn't There Around the WFCC Grand Prix FinalThe United Arab Emirates emirate of Fujairah will host the WFCC Grand Prix...
ChessDeep Analysis Not Possible: Empty Output, Missing InputThis piece is not a sports report — it explains why the requested report was...
ChessShadow of Budget on the Chess Board: Strength vs Institution at the European Club CupWalking into the ballroom of a Budva hotel on a Wednesday afternoon, the firs...
ChessBudva's Six Boards: The 2715 Gap, and the Institutional Gap Nobody MeasuresThe table sat frozen on the screen at half past eleven on the night of 19...
ChessThe 9...a5 Ledger: A ‘Bayonet Antidote’ Claim and the Accounting of Engine-Era PreparationTwo sentences in a DVD blurb stop you cold when you read them back to back. T...
ChessWhere the Headline Leaves the Board: Behind 'Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027,' a 60-Minute Scandinavian PromiseI have an old habit — before reading any piece, I read the headline and the...
ChessThe Empty File Is the Evidence: Why Bangladesh's Missing Sixth Grandmaster Is a Data-Integrity FailureWinter, 2026. In the room beside a small chess academy in Mymensingh, I opene...
ChessWednesday on Screen: A Decade-Long Show, a Delayed Norm and the Silent Economy of Chess BroadcastingHook On a Wednesday evening in Mymensingh, when the broadband drops, I hold t...
ChessBeating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 - Seriously? Board One in Samarkand, a 2504 Performance, and the Question Hidden Behind a HeadlineBeating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 - Seriously? Board One in Samarkand, a 2504...
ChessA FIDE General Assembly Headline, a 60-Minute Najdorf Update Inside: Auditing Chess’s Information PipelineLast week, at half past midnight, I opened my laptop and scrolled a chess fee...
ChessA Knight to October 8, Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague: Auditing a Headline-Body MismatchI read the headline twice. Once on a quick scan, and once again after I had...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Deep Analysis of Chess Festival Prague 2026 and New Horizons in Training ContentChessBase Magazine #225: Deep Analysis of Chess Festival Prague 2026 and New...
ChessSix Videos, Five Grandmasters: The System-Opening Market and Bangladesh's Unfinished LedgerI began tagging moves, and the moves began to sort themselves. Last week,...
ChessIndia's First Chess Olympiad Gold: Won on the Bench, Not on the BoardBudapest, final round. In the tournament hall the loudest voice belongs not t...
Chess45.Rd1: A Tired Nervous System, a Rejected Draw, and India's Silver Arithmetic at SamarkandAt the board in Samarkand the clock had just crossed the fifth hour. On Savit...
Chess5.e5! — Erigaisi, Sveshnikov and the Fourth-Hour Blood Pressure of a Club LineI once counted heartbeats in Paltan. April 2026, the Premier Division Chess...
ChessFIDE Presidential Election: The Headline Story, and the Najdorf UpdateIn the two-story room of Purana Paltan, the steel cupboard still catches the...
Chess5.e5: A Small Rebellion in the Italian Game, and a Promise That Has Not Yet Stood Before an EngineHook: A pawn on e5, and a knight without an address The move looks harmless....
ChessA King's Walk With No Scoresheet: The Italian Gambit's Promise and the Club Player's LedgerSix in the evening in Khulna. The tea is going cold and a headline is burning...