Chess
Behind the Xiong–Liang Headline: Why Black Should Prepare for Four 1.d4 Systems Together
Empty Board, Empty Columns: When Will the Ledger for Bangladesh's Sixth Grandmaster Begin?
A Lonely King in a Dark Room: Bangladesh Chess Has No Talent Drought, It Has a Patron Drought
Zero Rows, Uncounted Moves: The Silent Failure of Chess Data Extraction
The Receipt for Two Courses: Kavutskiy, ChessBase, and One Reviewer's Narrow Sample
A Fifteen-Year-Old's Bavarian Flicker and a Coaching Video: The Untold Story Between Two Tiers of the Chess WorldFirst, a scene. A table at the Bavarian State Chess Championship, where the...
Behind the Xiong–Liang Headline: Why Black Should Prepare for Four 1.d4 Systems TogetherA chess article titled “Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang” naturally...
Empty Board, Empty Columns: When Will the Ledger for Bangladesh's Sixth Grandmaster Begin?On 5 July 2026, at a Premier Division Chess League match in Dhaka. GM Ziaur...
A Lonely King in a Dark Room: Bangladesh Chess Has No Talent Drought, It Has a Patron DroughtHook: The Smell of an Unopened File In the Delhi summer of 2026, while I was...
An Anti-Scotch 'Antidote' and a Phantom Name in the Headline: Anatomy of a Promotional Chess ReportThe vast publishing economy built around chess opening theory has produced...
Zero Rows, Uncounted Moves: The Silent Failure of Chess Data ExtractionHook On the morning of August 3, 2026, a small table arrived on my desk. Six...
A Club Cup on the Cover, a Catalogue Inside: The Ledger ChessBase Magazine #225 Never ShowsA Club Cup on the Cover, a Catalogue Inside: The Ledger ChessBase Magazine #2...
The Hour of the Quiet Move: The Deceptive Politics of 9...a5 in the Mar del PlataWhen White plays 9.b4 in the Mar del Plata, the board looks like a room where...
The Elephant Gambit, Caruana's Loss, and a Folder Nobody Opened: Chess Lessons Sold in News WrappingA Headline, Then a Shop Last week, a little past midnight in my Delhi flat, I...
No Sixth Grandmaster, Only a Budget Ledger: Bangladesh Chess After 2026Hook: A Travel Approval in a Batumi Corridor September 2026, Batumi. In a...
Magnus Carlsen's Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving System for High Performance in Shorter Time ControlsMagnus Carlsen's Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving System for High...
The Receipt for Two Courses: Kavutskiy, ChessBase, and One Reviewer's Narrow SampleChessBase has released two new courses under the name of International Master...
Five Lines in Sixty Minutes: A Najdorf Update, a Mislabeled Title, and the Ledger of the Chess Content EconomyThe headline said something was coming about the main decisions of the FIDE...
A Tsaghkadzor Headline, a King's Indian Body: The Quiet Fracture in Chess MediaLast week a feed item landed on my desk. The headline on top announced that t...
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD Ad in the Body — The Tsaghkadzor File and the King's Indian 9...a5Last week a link surfaced at my desk with this headline: Champions crowned fr...
The Headline With No Rating In It: The Scotch, 2026, and a Federation's Defence BudgetLast month, after the sixth round of a club tournament in Dhaka, a young play...
Keymer in the Headline, Scotch in the Body: Two Ages of Chess on One PageKeymer in the Headline, Scotch in the Body: Two Ages of Chess on One Page Hoo...
The Samarkand Ledger: The Two Boards That Changed the Colour of GoldBefore the final round in Samarkand, India's arithmetic looked clean. I fille...
Gold in Budapest, an Empty Board in Dhaka: The Chess Olympiad LedgerHook: 9.5/10 — one number, one board, one evening Last September I watched...
Vietnam's 'Olympiad Gold' — The Danger of Calling a Group B Success a Full Gold MedalVietnam's men's chess team is reported to have won the Group B gold at the 20...
Behind the Xiong–Liang Headline: Why Black Should Prepare for Four 1.d4 Systems TogetherA chess article titled “Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang” naturally...
Empty Board, Empty Columns: When Will the Ledger for Bangladesh's Sixth Grandmaster Begin?On 5 July 2026, at a Premier Division Chess League match in Dhaka. GM Ziaur...
A Lonely King in a Dark Room: Bangladesh Chess Has No Talent Drought, It Has a Patron DroughtHook: The Smell of an Unopened File In the Delhi summer of 2026, while I was...
An Anti-Scotch 'Antidote' and a Phantom Name in the Headline: Anatomy of a Promotional Chess ReportThe vast publishing economy built around chess opening theory has produced...
Zero Rows, Uncounted Moves: The Silent Failure of Chess Data ExtractionHook On the morning of August 3, 2026, a small table arrived on my desk. Six...
A Club Cup on the Cover, a Catalogue Inside: The Ledger ChessBase Magazine #225 Never ShowsA Club Cup on the Cover, a Catalogue Inside: The Ledger ChessBase Magazine #2...
The Hour of the Quiet Move: The Deceptive Politics of 9...a5 in the Mar del PlataWhen White plays 9.b4 in the Mar del Plata, the board looks like a room where...
The Elephant Gambit, Caruana's Loss, and a Folder Nobody Opened: Chess Lessons Sold in News WrappingA Headline, Then a Shop Last week, a little past midnight in my Delhi flat, I...
No Sixth Grandmaster, Only a Budget Ledger: Bangladesh Chess After 2026Hook: A Travel Approval in a Batumi Corridor September 2026, Batumi. In a...
Magnus Carlsen's Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving System for High Performance in Shorter Time ControlsMagnus Carlsen's Scandinavian Defense: A Time-Saving System for High...
The Receipt for Two Courses: Kavutskiy, ChessBase, and One Reviewer's Narrow SampleChessBase has released two new courses under the name of International Master...
Five Lines in Sixty Minutes: A Najdorf Update, a Mislabeled Title, and the Ledger of the Chess Content EconomyThe headline said something was coming about the main decisions of the FIDE...
A Tsaghkadzor Headline, a King's Indian Body: The Quiet Fracture in Chess MediaLast week a feed item landed on my desk. The headline on top announced that t...
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD Ad in the Body — The Tsaghkadzor File and the King's Indian 9...a5Last week a link surfaced at my desk with this headline: Champions crowned fr...
The Headline With No Rating In It: The Scotch, 2026, and a Federation's Defence BudgetLast month, after the sixth round of a club tournament in Dhaka, a young play...
Keymer in the Headline, Scotch in the Body: Two Ages of Chess on One PageKeymer in the Headline, Scotch in the Body: Two Ages of Chess on One Page Hoo...
The Samarkand Ledger: The Two Boards That Changed the Colour of GoldBefore the final round in Samarkand, India's arithmetic looked clean. I fille...
Gold in Budapest, an Empty Board in Dhaka: The Chess Olympiad LedgerHook: 9.5/10 — one number, one board, one evening Last September I watched...
Vietnam's 'Olympiad Gold' — The Danger of Calling a Group B Success a Full Gold MedalVietnam's men's chess team is reported to have won the Group B gold at the 20...