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5.e5: A Small Rebellion in the Italian Game, and a Promise That Has Not Yet Stood Before an Engine
A Samarkand Scoreboard, a ChessBase Catalogue: An Information Fracture in the Chess Content Market
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and a Headline Whose Game Could Not Be Found
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...
ChessSamarkand 2026, Round 9: Gukesh's Houdini Night and the Crack in India's Golden StaircaseSamarkand 2026, Round 9: Gukesh's Houdini Night and the Crack in India's Gold...
ChessA Samarkand Scoreboard, a ChessBase Catalogue: An Information Fracture in the Chess Content MarketI opened a file titled, in effect, "Samarkand, round eight (women): China lea...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Gold Ledger Resting on One ShoulderHook — A Position That Lost for Five Hours Half past seven in the evening,...
ChessSamarkand's 15/16 vs ChessBase #225: When the Headline and the Body Walk Different RoadsIt is twenty-five minutes to midnight in a Mumbai flat. The old scanner is of...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Signatures from Prague 2026, a Curated Training CupboardIn a half-dark hotel lobby in Prague, a game from Chess Festival Prague 2026...
ChessA File Named Samarkand, Contents From Prague: The Verification Crisis in Chess Training MaterialTwo in the morning in a bedroom in Mymensingh. The only light in the room com...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and a Headline Whose Game Could Not Be FoundI read the headline first: Samarkand, round eight, women's section, China...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Promise and the Real Club-Board ArithmeticLast December, in a rain-soaked upstairs room at the Mymensingh district club...
ChessSixty-Minute Scandinavian: A Forensic Report on a Repertoire Course Sold on Carlsen's NameThirteen points. That is the entire promotional text of an instructional vide...
ChessSixty Minutes and One Uncited Name: Auditing the Scandinavian Defense Sales PitchA course advertisement landed on my desk last week. Thirteen bullet points, a...
ChessThe Sword's Hanging Shadow: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense and an Unverified NameA thirteen-point product blurb carries one sentence: "Used by Magnus Carlsen ...
ChessOne Headline, Two Games: Samarkand Round 8 and a Sixty-Minute ScandinavianThere is a printed page under the glass on my Khulna desk. The coffee ring in...
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...
ChessSamarkand 2026, Round 9: Gukesh's Houdini Night and the Crack in India's Golden StaircaseSamarkand 2026, Round 9: Gukesh's Houdini Night and the Crack in India's Gold...
ChessA Samarkand Scoreboard, a ChessBase Catalogue: An Information Fracture in the Chess Content MarketI opened a file titled, in effect, "Samarkand, round eight (women): China lea...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Gold Ledger Resting on One ShoulderHook — A Position That Lost for Five Hours Half past seven in the evening,...
ChessSamarkand's 15/16 vs ChessBase #225: When the Headline and the Body Walk Different RoadsIt is twenty-five minutes to midnight in a Mumbai flat. The old scanner is of...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Signatures from Prague 2026, a Curated Training CupboardIn a half-dark hotel lobby in Prague, a game from Chess Festival Prague 2026...
ChessA File Named Samarkand, Contents From Prague: The Verification Crisis in Chess Training MaterialTwo in the morning in a bedroom in Mymensingh. The only light in the room com...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and a Headline Whose Game Could Not Be FoundI read the headline first: Samarkand, round eight, women's section, China...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Promise and the Real Club-Board ArithmeticLast December, in a rain-soaked upstairs room at the Mymensingh district club...
ChessSixty-Minute Scandinavian: A Forensic Report on a Repertoire Course Sold on Carlsen's NameThirteen points. That is the entire promotional text of an instructional vide...
ChessSixty Minutes and One Uncited Name: Auditing the Scandinavian Defense Sales PitchA course advertisement landed on my desk last week. Thirteen bullet points, a...
ChessThe Sword's Hanging Shadow: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense and an Unverified NameA thirteen-point product blurb carries one sentence: "Used by Magnus Carlsen ...
ChessOne Headline, Two Games: Samarkand Round 8 and a Sixty-Minute ScandinavianThere is a printed page under the glass on my Khulna desk. The coffee ring in...