Chess
Chess Analysis Stalled by Missing Evidence: Original Reporting Needed to Establish Players, Tournaments and Competitive Context
Sindarov Turns Nakamura’s Own Weapon Against Him Ahead of the World Championship
Hong Kong Team Rapid & Blitz: Dragon Chilling's 5-1 Blowout and the Unresolved Question Over Ding Liren's Form
The Franchise Board in Hong Kong and the Ledger in Dhaka: Two Faces of One Headline
Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang — The Advertising Grid Behind the Board Story
The Empty Cell: A Ledger of Bangladesh Chess's Seventeen-Year Absence
Chess Analysis Stalled by Missing Evidence: Original Reporting Needed to Establish Players, Tournaments and Competitive ContextA meaningful assessment of chess requires more than knowing the final result....
Petroff or Scandinavian? A Major Inconsistency in the Promotion of a 60-Minute Chess VideoA promotional description for a 60-minute instructional chess video has raise...
Sindarov Turns Nakamura’s Own Weapon Against Him Ahead of the World ChampionshipSindarov Uses Nakamura’s Own Weapon Against Him Ahead of the World Championsh...
Hong Kong Team Rapid & Blitz: Dragon Chilling's 5-1 Blowout and the Unresolved Question Over Ding Liren's FormI watched the second leg's scoreline from a bedroom in Mymensingh—5-1. The...
The Franchise Board in Hong Kong and the Ledger in Dhaka: Two Faces of One HeadlineThat evening in Hong Kong, when the second leg's scoreboard clicked to 5-1, t...
Hong Kong's 5-1 and a Contradicting Headline: What We Actually Know About Ding Liren's FormLate June in a Delhi room. The air carries the first smell of the monsoon, th...
Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang — The Advertising Grid Behind the Board StoryChess literature has a familiar headline pattern: a specific game, two names,...
The Empty Cell: A Ledger of Bangladesh Chess's Seventeen-Year AbsenceFive rows in a table. Row one reads: Title — not applicable. Row two: Source ...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: Debate Around a King's Indian Repertoire DVDThe chess publishing market runs on a familiar cycle: the more heavily analys...
8.5/11: A Boy in the Headline, a Teenager at the Board, and the $45,000 LedgerOctober 23, 2026. Saint Louis. The ink on the final-round scoresheet had not...
Giri–Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Accounting Gap in Chess PreparationThe number in the title is 745. Inside, there are six videos. Two names sit o...
Notation on an Empty Square: The Chess Report That Came Back BlankTwo score sheets. The first I held in November 2026, inside the Bangladesh...
The Title Promises a Review, the Body Sells Software: Inside the Benko Gambit Product PageLast month I opened a page hoping to read a review. The headline was explicit...
A European Club Cup Headline, a ChessBase Advertisement: The Club-Chess Story Nobody Is WritingDelhi, a hazy December evening. I shut the window, opened the laptop, and the...
A Championship in the Headline, a Course Ad in the Body: Auditing the Ledger of the So–Caruana Tiebreak ResultAt half past midnight there is one tab open on my desk. The headline is set...
A Peak Descending at 35: Carlsen's Own Score-Sheet Reveals the First Column of DeclineI have been doing this since 2026 — scanning old newspaper clippings, feeding...
A NATO Chess Championship Headline, a Najdorf Advertisement: The Ledger of One FileLast Wednesday a folder landed on my desk, labelled in shorthand:...
Vahap Sanal in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Data Gap in Chess ReportingA headline reached my desk last week. Turkish Grandmaster Vahap Sanal had, it...
A Wrong FIDE President and a FRITZ 20 Ad: The Ledger of One Chess StoryA story crossed my desk late one night. The headline read: “FIDE President...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Neiksans in the Headline, Martin on the BoardThe headline arrived in one line: ‘From quitting chess to becoming a...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian: A Mislabeled Headline, an Unproven Claim, and the Club Player's Time BudgetThe headline told a story; the board told another At two in the morning in a...
A 3,863-Word Analysis: The Chess Knowledge-Product Market, a Silent Audit From Saint PetersburgThe Chess Knowledge-Product Market, Counted From a Saint Petersburg Kitchen:...
Blockchain and Chess: Lessons from an Unorthodox OpeningA chess course advertisement page, titled with the European Club Cup, was...
Dortmund in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Tactical Ledger of a 60-Minute PromiseLast week I was scrolling a chess content listing when a headline stopped me:...
A Tournament in the Headline, a Sixty-Minute Video Inside: Auditing the Scandinavian DefenseLast week, at my desk in Rangpur, I opened a page. The headline read “Dortmun...
Atyrau's Two Seeds, and the Cool Silence of ChessBase MagazineIt was 2:47 in the morning. On the laptop screen in my Mymensingh room, a pre...
Training in the Shadow of a Headline: Atyrau, ChessBase and the Reuse Economy of ChessIt is nearly three in the morning in a bedroom in Mymensingh. For the second...
Petroff or Scandinavian? A Major Inconsistency in the Promotion of a 60-Minute Chess VideoA promotional description for a 60-minute instructional chess video has raise...
Sindarov Turns Nakamura’s Own Weapon Against Him Ahead of the World ChampionshipSindarov Uses Nakamura’s Own Weapon Against Him Ahead of the World Championsh...
Hong Kong Team Rapid & Blitz: Dragon Chilling's 5-1 Blowout and the Unresolved Question Over Ding Liren's FormI watched the second leg's scoreline from a bedroom in Mymensingh—5-1. The...
The Franchise Board in Hong Kong and the Ledger in Dhaka: Two Faces of One HeadlineThat evening in Hong Kong, when the second leg's scoreboard clicked to 5-1, t...
Hong Kong's 5-1 and a Contradicting Headline: What We Actually Know About Ding Liren's FormLate June in a Delhi room. The air carries the first smell of the monsoon, th...
Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang — The Advertising Grid Behind the Board StoryChess literature has a familiar headline pattern: a specific game, two names,...
The Empty Cell: A Ledger of Bangladesh Chess's Seventeen-Year AbsenceFive rows in a table. Row one reads: Title — not applicable. Row two: Source ...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: Debate Around a King's Indian Repertoire DVDThe chess publishing market runs on a familiar cycle: the more heavily analys...
8.5/11: A Boy in the Headline, a Teenager at the Board, and the $45,000 LedgerOctober 23, 2026. Saint Louis. The ink on the final-round scoresheet had not...
Giri–Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Accounting Gap in Chess PreparationThe number in the title is 745. Inside, there are six videos. Two names sit o...
Notation on an Empty Square: The Chess Report That Came Back BlankTwo score sheets. The first I held in November 2026, inside the Bangladesh...
The Title Promises a Review, the Body Sells Software: Inside the Benko Gambit Product PageLast month I opened a page hoping to read a review. The headline was explicit...
A European Club Cup Headline, a ChessBase Advertisement: The Club-Chess Story Nobody Is WritingDelhi, a hazy December evening. I shut the window, opened the laptop, and the...
A Championship in the Headline, a Course Ad in the Body: Auditing the Ledger of the So–Caruana Tiebreak ResultAt half past midnight there is one tab open on my desk. The headline is set...
A Peak Descending at 35: Carlsen's Own Score-Sheet Reveals the First Column of DeclineI have been doing this since 2026 — scanning old newspaper clippings, feeding...
A NATO Chess Championship Headline, a Najdorf Advertisement: The Ledger of One FileLast Wednesday a folder landed on my desk, labelled in shorthand:...
Vahap Sanal in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Data Gap in Chess ReportingA headline reached my desk last week. Turkish Grandmaster Vahap Sanal had, it...
A Wrong FIDE President and a FRITZ 20 Ad: The Ledger of One Chess StoryA story crossed my desk late one night. The headline read: “FIDE President...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Neiksans in the Headline, Martin on the BoardThe headline arrived in one line: ‘From quitting chess to becoming a...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian: A Mislabeled Headline, an Unproven Claim, and the Club Player's Time BudgetThe headline told a story; the board told another At two in the morning in a...
A 3,863-Word Analysis: The Chess Knowledge-Product Market, a Silent Audit From Saint PetersburgThe Chess Knowledge-Product Market, Counted From a Saint Petersburg Kitchen:...
Blockchain and Chess: Lessons from an Unorthodox OpeningA chess course advertisement page, titled with the European Club Cup, was...
Dortmund in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Tactical Ledger of a 60-Minute PromiseLast week I was scrolling a chess content listing when a headline stopped me:...
A Tournament in the Headline, a Sixty-Minute Video Inside: Auditing the Scandinavian DefenseLast week, at my desk in Rangpur, I opened a page. The headline read “Dortmun...
Atyrau's Two Seeds, and the Cool Silence of ChessBase MagazineIt was 2:47 in the morning. On the laptop screen in my Mymensingh room, a pre...
Training in the Shadow of a Headline: Atyrau, ChessBase and the Reuse Economy of ChessIt is nearly three in the morning in a bedroom in Mymensingh. For the second...