Chess
A Fujairah Headline, a 27-Miniature Body: The Announcement That Names No Solver
Zero Moves in Samarkand: Israel's Forfeit and FIDE's Consent-Based Clock
Carlsen's Line Travelled Three Hands, and the Real Question Got Lost Between Two Translations
The Packaging of the Benko Gambit: A 2600 Rating, an 11-Lakh Market, and the Ledger of a Title
The Evidence Gap in Chess Analysis: How an Empty Input Can Undermine an Entire ReportThe Biggest Blunder in Chess Analysis: Reaching a Verdict Without Evidence In...
Pierced by Nakamura's Own Weapon: What Sindarov's Message Means Before Facing GukeshOn the board in Saint Louis, Hikaru Nakamura sat with the white pieces. Befor...
Team Chess in Hong Kong and a Screen in Dhaka: Two Different Matches Hidden Inside One HeadlineSitting in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I stopped at a news headline on my phone...
Yu Yangyi’s Win Over Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters Leaves Bigger Questions Than AnswersA single competitive result appears inside what is otherwise a promotional...
Information Fracture in a Chess Repertoire Product Review: the Chigorin Defence and the Italian 5.e5 Are Not the Same OpeningOne opening in the headline, a different one in the body — a two-stage analys...
A Fujairah Headline, a 27-Miniature Body: The Announcement That Names No SolverThe table lamp is on in my Delhi room, the ceiling fan turning slowly, the he...
Major Gap in Chess News Analysis: Information Extraction Stage Fails, Deep Analysis ImpossibleA serious weakness in the technical supply chain of sports content production...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Offbeat-Opening Market, the Data Gap, and a Mislabelled HeadlineTwo in the morning. A secondhand laptop on charge in a bedroom in Mymensingh,...
Zero Moves in Samarkand: Israel's Forfeit and FIDE's Consent-Based ClockEight clocks were set up inside the Savitsky Hotel in Samarkand. On the sixth...
Nakamura in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: A Tactical Replay of a Newsroom MismatchBefore opening the file I moved my coffee cup aside. Habit. Since 2026 I lay...
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 on the Board: Auditing a King's Indian DVDThe first thing I check is not the headline. It is whether the headline and t...
Budva's 32nd Move: The Record That Survived 38 Years, Broken at ElevenBudva, Montenegro, October 23. The final round of the women's section at the...
Carlsen's Line Travelled Three Hands, and the Real Question Got Lost Between Two TranslationsTwenty-first of October, Spain. Magnus Carlsen sat with AS and said a sentenc...
A Turkish Triumph in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: The Missing Crosstable and the Economics of Opening-Theory Updates"I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting." A file landed on my...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: A Mislabelled Headline, a Two-Tempo Debt, and the Market of Theory-Tired AmateursA file landed on my desk last week with a headline that promised everything:...
The Unified Rating Was Announced; the Patient's Chart Was NotOn 29 August 2026 an announcement landed in my inbox: a twelve-day chess even...
The Packaging of the Benko Gambit: A 2600 Rating, an 11-Lakh Market, and the Ledger of a TitleI bought Sipke Ernst's Benko Gambit repertoire in the winter of 2026, sitting...
A Dortmund 2027 Headline Over a Scandinavian Board: A 60-Minute Video, the Carlsen Halo, and Bangladesh's Empty LedgerI opened the file for Dortmund. The headline was clean—Dortmund Sparkassen...
The Ledger Nobody Kept: Bangladesh's Five Grandmasters and the Pipeline That Stopped in 2026Batumi, September 2026. I was in the Georgian tournament hall with Bangladesh...
From Dusk till Dawn: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess TrainingTwo in the morning, ten minutes past. In a flat in Penang the lights went out...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Wrong Label: The Ledger of a Najdorf Update1. The Item at 2:17 a.m. Moscow Time At 2:17 a.m. Moscow time, a new item...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: The Three Gaps Behind the 2,731Three numbers arrived together in the Turkish Chess Federation's press releas...
Pierced by Nakamura's Own Weapon: What Sindarov's Message Means Before Facing GukeshOn the board in Saint Louis, Hikaru Nakamura sat with the white pieces. Befor...
Team Chess in Hong Kong and a Screen in Dhaka: Two Different Matches Hidden Inside One HeadlineSitting in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I stopped at a news headline on my phone...
Yu Yangyi’s Win Over Ding Liren at the Shenzhen Masters Leaves Bigger Questions Than AnswersA single competitive result appears inside what is otherwise a promotional...
Information Fracture in a Chess Repertoire Product Review: the Chigorin Defence and the Italian 5.e5 Are Not the Same OpeningOne opening in the headline, a different one in the body — a two-stage analys...
A Fujairah Headline, a 27-Miniature Body: The Announcement That Names No SolverThe table lamp is on in my Delhi room, the ceiling fan turning slowly, the he...
Major Gap in Chess News Analysis: Information Extraction Stage Fails, Deep Analysis ImpossibleA serious weakness in the technical supply chain of sports content production...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Offbeat-Opening Market, the Data Gap, and a Mislabelled HeadlineTwo in the morning. A secondhand laptop on charge in a bedroom in Mymensingh,...
Zero Moves in Samarkand: Israel's Forfeit and FIDE's Consent-Based ClockEight clocks were set up inside the Savitsky Hotel in Samarkand. On the sixth...
Nakamura in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: A Tactical Replay of a Newsroom MismatchBefore opening the file I moved my coffee cup aside. Habit. Since 2026 I lay...
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 on the Board: Auditing a King's Indian DVDThe first thing I check is not the headline. It is whether the headline and t...
Budva's 32nd Move: The Record That Survived 38 Years, Broken at ElevenBudva, Montenegro, October 23. The final round of the women's section at the...
Carlsen's Line Travelled Three Hands, and the Real Question Got Lost Between Two TranslationsTwenty-first of October, Spain. Magnus Carlsen sat with AS and said a sentenc...
A Turkish Triumph in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: The Missing Crosstable and the Economics of Opening-Theory Updates"I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting." A file landed on my...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: A Mislabelled Headline, a Two-Tempo Debt, and the Market of Theory-Tired AmateursA file landed on my desk last week with a headline that promised everything:...
The Unified Rating Was Announced; the Patient's Chart Was NotOn 29 August 2026 an announcement landed in my inbox: a twelve-day chess even...
The Packaging of the Benko Gambit: A 2600 Rating, an 11-Lakh Market, and the Ledger of a TitleI bought Sipke Ernst's Benko Gambit repertoire in the winter of 2026, sitting...
A Dortmund 2027 Headline Over a Scandinavian Board: A 60-Minute Video, the Carlsen Halo, and Bangladesh's Empty LedgerI opened the file for Dortmund. The headline was clean—Dortmund Sparkassen...
The Ledger Nobody Kept: Bangladesh's Five Grandmasters and the Pipeline That Stopped in 2026Batumi, September 2026. I was in the Georgian tournament hall with Bangladesh...
From Dusk till Dawn: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess TrainingTwo in the morning, ten minutes past. In a flat in Penang the lights went out...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Wrong Label: The Ledger of a Najdorf Update1. The Item at 2:17 a.m. Moscow Time At 2:17 a.m. Moscow time, a new item...
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: The Three Gaps Behind the 2,731Three numbers arrived together in the Turkish Chess Federation's press releas...