Chess
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD on the Board: The Hollow Shell of Chess News2026-10-04Two in the morning, a laptop open in a Delhi flat. I was scrolling a feed whe...
8/10, 2,731 and an Unopened Folder: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Record Is Still on Paper2026-10-03The hall light is cold, and the board-one clock has already crossed into its...
FIDE Presidency Election: An Evidence-Empty Headline and the Commercial Trap of the Najdorf Update2026-09-26The most important chess news of the day was compressed into a single headlin...
Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Course, an Unverified Name, and the Ledger of Bangladeshi Chess2026-09-26On the second floor of the Purana Paltan hall, board twelve, forty-five minut...
ChessThe Report That Contained No Information: A Lesson in System Failure for Bangladesh Chess AnalysisOn a Saturday afternoon in my small room in Mymensingh, I opened a chess...
ChessThe Ledger and the Entry List Tell Us Where Bangladesh Chess Is HeadingA 2026 afternoon in the Purana Paltan hall. Laptop open between rounds of the...
ChessTwo Openings, One Product: Informational Fractures and the Evidence Crisis in the Chess Instructional Video MarketIntroduction: One Review, Two Different Openings The chess instructional mark...
ChessAn Eleven-Year-Old Hand Over the Board: The 38-Year Record That Fell, and the Question Nobody AsksThe Quiet Hall of Budva In the hotel conference hall in Budva, Montenegro, th...
ChessGiri and Abdusattorov on Board One, but the Match Is Settled on Boards Three to SixOctober 2026, Khulna, twenty minutes to two in the morning. A 2026 laptop on...
ChessA Budva Headline on an Elephant Gambit Body: The 60-Minute Trap Sold Under the Wrong NameAt twenty minutes to three one night last week I opened a link on a laptop...
ChessA Headline Without a Body: Atyrau Masters, ChessBase #225 and the Quiet Economics of Training Material"Atyrau Masters: top two seeds defeated in the opening rounds." Seven words....
ChessSelling an Antidote to the Scotch, and the Shadow of the 2026 Olympiad That Wasn'tThe 2026 World Championship match. Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov — another...
ChessCaruana's Crown or Lilov's Course? The Advertorial Crisis in Chess MediaIt was 11 PM. A link appeared with a headline claiming Fabiano Caruana was...
ChessThe Bent Larsen Lesson: A Magazine Sells Theory, Its Hero Avoided ItIt's one in the morning. I'm in my Penang flat, the laptop throwing cold ligh...
ChessA Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD on the Board: The Hollow Shell of Chess NewsTwo in the morning, a laptop open in a Delhi flat. I was scrolling a feed whe...
Chess8/10, 2,731 and an Unopened Folder: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Record Is Still on PaperThe hall light is cold, and the board-one clock has already crossed into its...
ChessSamarkand's Silver: India's Depth, India's Deficit — and Bangladesh's Empty LedgerI spread the eleven-round scorecard on the table and looked first at board...
ChessSamarkand's Silver and Bronze: India's Chess Depth and the Top-Board FractureEleven rounds, two sections, two teams. India's men lost once in the entire...
ChessThe Samarkand Ledger: 45.Rd1, 8.5/9 and India's Match-Point ArithmeticTwo numbers sat side by side on the round-ten scoresheet in Samarkand, and I...
ChessMove Nine: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack, and a DVD That Wore Someone Else's TitleOn a September evening in a Saint Petersburg flat I opened a file and the...
ChessA King Walk, a Missing Move List and the Ledger of an Empty Board: The Hidden Olympiad Opening Column and the Club Player's Asymmetric Memory BurdenThe clock in an Olympiad hall never stops. A piece moves, a score sheet gains...
ChessSamarkand Round Nine: Gukesh's Houdini Is Real, But India's Gold Still Rests on One Man's SweatOn board four of the Samarkand playing hall the clock has gone past five hour...
ChessFIDE Presidency Election: An Evidence-Empty Headline and the Commercial Trap of the Najdorf UpdateThe most important chess news of the day was compressed into a single headlin...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Ledger of Chess TrainingAbout a quarter to two in the morning last week I opened the file. The headli...
ChessA Hanging Sword and an Empty Cell: The Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and an Uncounted GameI keep a ledger. It is a print-era habit I never dropped when I moved to a...
ChessSword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Course, an Unverified Name, and the Ledger of Bangladeshi ChessOn the second floor of the Purana Paltan hall, board twelve, forty-five minut...