Chess
Elephant Gambit, Najdorf Label: What a 60-Minute Repertoire Actually Risks
Empty Board, Full Grid: A Failed Chess Analysis File and the Seventeen-Year Silence
The King's Indian 'Antidote': 9...a5, Kazakhstan's Chess Diplomacy and Screen-Board Fatigue
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD Blurb in the Body: A Data Audit
The Title Said Samarkand, the File Said ChessBase #225 — Who Keeps the Ledger in the Chess Content Market?
Petroff or Scandinavian: The Information Problem Behind a 60-Minute Chess CourseHook: The first move that must be verified The first question in an opening...
Elephant Gambit: Practical Surprise Weapon or Limited Chess System?The second move often reveals the real character of a chess game. After 1.e4 ...
The Data Extraction Crisis in International Chess Reporting and the New Challenges of Sports JournalismInternational chess is no longer a quiet game of board and pieces. Digital...
Elephant Gambit, Najdorf Label: What a 60-Minute Repertoire Actually Risks"Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation" — that is the label on the product page. I...
Liang–Niemann: How a Single First-Round Result Became the Doorway to a Training ProductSaint Petersburg, close to two in the morning. Cold air off the Neva, a lapto...
The Square With No Piece: Reading 'Insufficient Data' in Bangladeshi ChessOn Monday morning I opened a file titled Deep Analysis Report. It held ten...
Two Club Names, Zero Board Scores: How a European Club Cup Headline Became an AdvertisementThe headline reads: "Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are 2026 European Club Cu...
Empty Board, Full Grid: A Failed Chess Analysis File and the Seventeen-Year SilenceThe circle my teacup left on the right corner of the laptop at seven in the...
Sixty Minutes, One Video, and the Dortmund Name: The Ledger Behind the Scandinavian DefenseI stopped at the title. "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027." One of Germany's...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fell, Nobody Wrote Their Names — ChessBase Magazine #225 and Chess's Invisible MetricHook: One Sentence, and the Space Around It When the opening rounds of the...
Human in the Shadow of the Tablebase: Karsten Müller and the Pedagogy of the EndgameI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. In 2026, annotating...
The Headline That Never Reached the Board: Caruana’s ‘Fifth Straight’ and a Six-Video RepertoireLast week I opened a chess page because the headline caught my eye: Fabiano...
Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 — Seriously? Seven Games Behind a 2504 Performance, and a Ledger Still UnbalancedHook: An Eleven-Year-Old on Board One, and a Deliberately Placed Question Mar...
The King's Indian 'Antidote': 9...a5, Kazakhstan's Chess Diplomacy and Screen-Board FatigueA DVD. On its cover, a sentence that is really a promise: 'very few concrete...
A 60-Minute Najdorf, a Wrong Headline, and Chess's Verification GapA headline announces the main decisions of the FIDE General Assembly 2026. Op...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: One DVD, One Headline, and the Credibility Crack in Chess PublishingThe position looks like this. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0...
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD Blurb in the Body: A Data AuditOn Saturday morning the feed opened with a headline that glowed: the European...
Tsaghkadzor's Golden Crown, a King's Indian DVD, and Chess Media's Silent InfarctionLast week I wrote a line in my notebook, because in forty-six years of readin...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Typo: How the Olympiad's 'Hidden Highlights' Get SoldTitle: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Typo: How the Olympiad's...
Samarkand, Round 9: Gukesh's Five Hours and the Gap Nobody Printed on India's Gold ReceiptThe Arithmetic of Five Hours On board four of Round 9, the clock has passed...
The Title Said Samarkand, the File Said ChessBase #225 — Who Keeps the Ledger in the Chess Content Market?One evening in the spring of 2026, a link arrived on my phone. It came from a...
The Round That Was Never Played: Samarkand's 15/16, ChessBase #225, and the Arithmetic of Bangladesh's PipelineTwo documents landed on my desk at the same time and they are not saying the...
A Samarkand Title, a Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and One Auditor's LedgerHook: A Title That Says Samarkand, a Body That Says Prague I opened the file...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Lesson: The Ledger of Chess's Two MarketsWednesday morning I was scrolling a feed at my Bengaluru desk. A headline...
Elephant Gambit: Practical Surprise Weapon or Limited Chess System?The second move often reveals the real character of a chess game. After 1.e4 ...
The Data Extraction Crisis in International Chess Reporting and the New Challenges of Sports JournalismInternational chess is no longer a quiet game of board and pieces. Digital...
Elephant Gambit, Najdorf Label: What a 60-Minute Repertoire Actually Risks"Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation" — that is the label on the product page. I...
Liang–Niemann: How a Single First-Round Result Became the Doorway to a Training ProductSaint Petersburg, close to two in the morning. Cold air off the Neva, a lapto...
The Square With No Piece: Reading 'Insufficient Data' in Bangladeshi ChessOn Monday morning I opened a file titled Deep Analysis Report. It held ten...
Two Club Names, Zero Board Scores: How a European Club Cup Headline Became an AdvertisementThe headline reads: "Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are 2026 European Club Cu...
Empty Board, Full Grid: A Failed Chess Analysis File and the Seventeen-Year SilenceThe circle my teacup left on the right corner of the laptop at seven in the...
Sixty Minutes, One Video, and the Dortmund Name: The Ledger Behind the Scandinavian DefenseI stopped at the title. "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027." One of Germany's...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Fell, Nobody Wrote Their Names — ChessBase Magazine #225 and Chess's Invisible MetricHook: One Sentence, and the Space Around It When the opening rounds of the...
Human in the Shadow of the Tablebase: Karsten Müller and the Pedagogy of the EndgameI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. In 2026, annotating...
The Headline That Never Reached the Board: Caruana’s ‘Fifth Straight’ and a Six-Video RepertoireLast week I opened a chess page because the headline caught my eye: Fabiano...
Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 — Seriously? Seven Games Behind a 2504 Performance, and a Ledger Still UnbalancedHook: An Eleven-Year-Old on Board One, and a Deliberately Placed Question Mar...
The King's Indian 'Antidote': 9...a5, Kazakhstan's Chess Diplomacy and Screen-Board FatigueA DVD. On its cover, a sentence that is really a promise: 'very few concrete...
A 60-Minute Najdorf, a Wrong Headline, and Chess's Verification GapA headline announces the main decisions of the FIDE General Assembly 2026. Op...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: One DVD, One Headline, and the Credibility Crack in Chess PublishingThe position looks like this. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0...
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD Blurb in the Body: A Data AuditOn Saturday morning the feed opened with a headline that glowed: the European...
Tsaghkadzor's Golden Crown, a King's Indian DVD, and Chess Media's Silent InfarctionLast week I wrote a line in my notebook, because in forty-six years of readin...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Typo: How the Olympiad's 'Hidden Highlights' Get SoldTitle: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Typo: How the Olympiad's...
Samarkand, Round 9: Gukesh's Five Hours and the Gap Nobody Printed on India's Gold ReceiptThe Arithmetic of Five Hours On board four of Round 9, the clock has passed...
The Title Said Samarkand, the File Said ChessBase #225 — Who Keeps the Ledger in the Chess Content Market?One evening in the spring of 2026, a link arrived on my phone. It came from a...
The Round That Was Never Played: Samarkand's 15/16, ChessBase #225, and the Arithmetic of Bangladesh's PipelineTwo documents landed on my desk at the same time and they are not saying the...
A Samarkand Title, a Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and One Auditor's LedgerHook: A Title That Says Samarkand, a Body That Says Prague I opened the file...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Lesson: The Ledger of Chess's Two MarketsWednesday morning I was scrolling a feed at my Bengaluru desk. A headline...