Chess
Hong Kong Team Rapid vs. Chinese Rapid: One Headline, Two Realities, and the Information Crisis Around Ding Liren's Form
5-1, 5-1: In Hong Kong, the Scoreline Was the Only Witness
Fujairah to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final: The ChessBase Sales Pitch Hidden Behind the Headline
Mothers in the Title, 9...a5 on the Disc: Auditing a King's Indian Repertoire DVD
Behind the Vlastimil Hort 2026 Headline: Chess Theory Inflation and an IM’s Six Videos
Hong Kong Team Rapid vs. Chinese Rapid: One Headline, Two Realities, and the Information Crisis Around Ding Liren's FormDragon Chilling won the Hong Kong Team Rapid and Blitz Championship final 5-1...
5-1, 5-1: In Hong Kong, the Scoreline Was the Only WitnessThe final scoreboard in Hong Kong read 5-1. The second leg read 5-1 again. Th...
Fujairah to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final: The ChessBase Sales Pitch Hidden Behind the HeadlineThe most important journalistic fact about this item is the gap between what...
Mothers in the Title, 9...a5 on the Disc: Auditing a King's Indian Repertoire DVDBefore the Wrapper Comes Off The disc arrived in a sealed envelope. Before...
The Sicilian Glint and the Price of a Byline: Reading Chess's Publishing Economy Through a Product CatalogueThe Sicilian Defence arrived in the English headline spelled Sicilan, one...
Two Champions, Zero Scorelines: Who Keeps the Ledger of Club Chess's Physiological CostThe headline names two clubs: Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo. It says they ar...
A Unified Rating Announced, a Rulebook Missing: The Budapest Test of Total Chess10 to 21 November 2026. Twelve days. Three time controls. Four names. And one...
Behind the Vlastimil Hort 2026 Headline: Chess Theory Inflation and an IM’s Six VideosThe headline belonged to a tournament — Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026, Hotel...
A Promotion in Bent Larsen's Shadow: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess-Content EconomyLast month I opened a press page — from the publisher's own channel of a ches...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Market of Theory and the Ledger of an Empty RoomIn April 2026, the steel cupboard in the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at...
King's Indian, 9...a5, and Tsaghkadzor's School Crowns: Two Sides of One StoryThe air in Tsaghkadzor was cold, and the hall was quiet. In this small Armeni...
5.e5! — The Club Player's Underdog Weapon and Its Unsettled LedgerLast month I sat at board three of a club-level rapid tournament in Mumbai. O...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles, and the Invisible Scoreline in SamarkandAt 2:40 a.m. in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I opened an old laptop and scrolled ...
The Scandinavian Defense: A One-Hour Promise and the Quiet Economy of ChessSeptember 2026, Tbilisi. The FIDE World Cup — a 128-player knockout,...
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Silent Injury of an Information ChainThe Headline's Bones, The Body's Flesh It was almost two in the morning in a...
The Sword's Thread: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and the Ledger of One Lost TempoThe queen landed on a5, and six months of my preparation went into the bin....
Sword of Damocles or One Queen Tempo: The Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Evidence Gap1...d5. White recaptures with 2.exd5, Black brings the queen back, White play...
Bodhana Was in None of the Thirteen Points: The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Repertoire, and a Headline That DriftedI read thirteen information points. Bodhana Sivanandan's name appears in none...
The Sword's Shadow and the Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense and the Quiet Truth of the Chess Course MarketA February night on a Khulna balcony. Salt in the air, the neighbour's...
Black's Reckoning in the Shadow of the London System: Six Videos, Seven Openings, and a Title That Doesn't MatchLast month, at a club evening in Bangalore, I counted forty boards. On...
5-1, 5-1: In Hong Kong, the Scoreline Was the Only WitnessThe final scoreboard in Hong Kong read 5-1. The second leg read 5-1 again. Th...
Fujairah to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final: The ChessBase Sales Pitch Hidden Behind the HeadlineThe most important journalistic fact about this item is the gap between what...
Mothers in the Title, 9...a5 on the Disc: Auditing a King's Indian Repertoire DVDBefore the Wrapper Comes Off The disc arrived in a sealed envelope. Before...
The Sicilian Glint and the Price of a Byline: Reading Chess's Publishing Economy Through a Product CatalogueThe Sicilian Defence arrived in the English headline spelled Sicilan, one...
Two Champions, Zero Scorelines: Who Keeps the Ledger of Club Chess's Physiological CostThe headline names two clubs: Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo. It says they ar...
A Unified Rating Announced, a Rulebook Missing: The Budapest Test of Total Chess10 to 21 November 2026. Twelve days. Three time controls. Four names. And one...
Behind the Vlastimil Hort 2026 Headline: Chess Theory Inflation and an IM’s Six VideosThe headline belonged to a tournament — Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026, Hotel...
A Promotion in Bent Larsen's Shadow: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess-Content EconomyLast month I opened a press page — from the publisher's own channel of a ches...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Market of Theory and the Ledger of an Empty RoomIn April 2026, the steel cupboard in the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at...
King's Indian, 9...a5, and Tsaghkadzor's School Crowns: Two Sides of One StoryThe air in Tsaghkadzor was cold, and the hall was quiet. In this small Armeni...
5.e5! — The Club Player's Underdog Weapon and Its Unsettled LedgerLast month I sat at board three of a club-level rapid tournament in Mumbai. O...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles, and the Invisible Scoreline in SamarkandAt 2:40 a.m. in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I opened an old laptop and scrolled ...
The Scandinavian Defense: A One-Hour Promise and the Quiet Economy of ChessSeptember 2026, Tbilisi. The FIDE World Cup — a 128-player knockout,...
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Silent Injury of an Information ChainThe Headline's Bones, The Body's Flesh It was almost two in the morning in a...
The Sword's Thread: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and the Ledger of One Lost TempoThe queen landed on a5, and six months of my preparation went into the bin....
Sword of Damocles or One Queen Tempo: The Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Evidence Gap1...d5. White recaptures with 2.exd5, Black brings the queen back, White play...
Bodhana Was in None of the Thirteen Points: The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Repertoire, and a Headline That DriftedI read thirteen information points. Bodhana Sivanandan's name appears in none...
The Sword's Shadow and the Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense and the Quiet Truth of the Chess Course MarketA February night on a Khulna balcony. Salt in the air, the neighbour's...
Black's Reckoning in the Shadow of the London System: Six Videos, Seven Openings, and a Title That Doesn't MatchLast month, at a club evening in Bangalore, I counted forty boards. On...