Chess
The Elephant Gambit: A Sixty-Minute Weapon, a Borrowed Name, and the Depreciation of Surprise
Fujairah Set to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final, but the Report Reads Like an Advertisement for ChessBase Magazine
Carlsen's Admission: The Limits of Human Chess in the AI Era and Budapest's New Experiment
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: A Wrong Headline, an Honest Repertoire, and the Price of Carlsen's Name
Sixty Minutes of Quiet Defence: A Scandinavian Sold Under Carlsen's Name
ChessWhere Is the Chess Story? Why Missing Evidence Prevents Meaningful Competitive AnalysisA single inaccurate move can change the direction of a chess game....
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: A Sixty-Minute Weapon, a Borrowed Name, and the Depreciation of SurpriseThree moves had been played. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 — and then Black's finger came dow...
Chess15-Year-Old Hussain Besou Co-Leads Bavarian Championship: A German Pipeline Signal, Not an Elite BreakthroughThe scoreboard after the seventh round of the Bavarian Championship had one...
ChessFour Doors After 1.d4 d5: What Lies Inside Installment #746, and What Doesn'tInstallment #746. Two names in the title — Jeffery Xiong, Awonder Liang. Anyo...
ChessThe Hollow Frame of a Chess Report: What Sports Journalism Says When Analysis StopsA draft chess report landed on my desk on a Monday morning. There was no titl...
ChessChess: A Global Sport Framed by the Art of the BoardChess requires only sixty-four squares and thirty-two pieces, yet out of this...
ChessFujairah Set to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final, but the Report Reads Like an Advertisement for ChessBase MagazineThe World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) Grand Prix Final will be...
ChessThe Cell That Stayed Empty: Bangladesh Chess Has a Record Problem, Not a Talent ProblemThe table had seven rows. Six of them carried the letters N/A — no title, no...
ChessEight Metrics, One Null Answer: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh ChessEight Metrics, One Null Answer: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh Chess...
ChessTwo Club Champions, an Empty Scoreboard1:40 a.m. in Penang. On the laptop screen, a ChessBase headline: “Bayegan...
ChessA Title in the Headline, an Advertisement on the Page: Diagnosing Rachel Li's 'Stunning' WinThe headline said this: Rachel Li has stunningly won the US Women's...
ChessA Najdorf Label on an Elephant Gambit: The Silent Injury Inside a 60-Minute 'Secret Weapon'2:40 a.m. The laptop's blue light sits on the wall of my Colombo flat. The...
ChessEuropean Club Cup Round Four: Giri–Abdusattorov on Board One, but the Match Arithmetic Starts on Board ThreeAt eleven at night, from a flat in Mymensingh, I opened the round-four pairin...
ChessCarlsen's Admission: The Limits of Human Chess in the AI Era and Budapest's New ExperimentMagnus Carlsen's interviews always generate discussion. In an interview with...
ChessThe Nicosia Meeting, the Wrong President, and Fritz 20: Auditing Chess Media's Ledger2:17 a.m. The router in my Khulna flat has dropped again. On the phone screen...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: A Wrong Headline, an Honest Repertoire, and the Price of Carlsen's NameThe package that landed on my desk last week came with a headline about the...
ChessClub Cup in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase #225 and the Catalogue of the Knowledge MarketEleven fifty at night, Khulna. The steel cupboard is open. Inside, old...
ChessDortmund on the Headline, Scandinavian Inside: The Receipt With No InvoiceA listing. The headline reads: Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027. Open it and...
ChessSixty Minutes of Elephant Gambit: How Chess's Course Economy Turns Tournament News into ProductThere were two sentences in the headline. The first: Woodward has taken down...
ChessNews in the Headline, Advertisement in the Body: The Elephant Gambit and the Funnel Economy of Chess CoursesLast week I opened a chess newsletter and the first thing I saw looked like a...
Chess5.e5 in Sveshnikov's Shadow: The Trap Market and the Gap in the SubtitleOn move five, White's e-pawn lunges one square forward — e5. On a board of...
ChessA New Block in Chess Training: Kavutskiy's FritzTrainer Courses and the Blockchain-Aware MarketBlock 1: Hook — “I began tagging goals, and the goals began to sort...
ChessThe 3.Bc4 Question Is the Wrong One: An Eleven-Year-Old's 2504 at Samarkand and the Rest of the LedgerThere are few cameras inside the hall in Samarkand, but the headline was loud...
ChessIs Chess 'Silent' to Watch? Separating Expressiveness from WatchabilityOn August 30, 2026, I was in a Delhi studio calling the FIDE Online Chess...
ChessThe Real Price of the 5.e5 Line: Not Theoretical Superiority, but the Ledger of an Unprepared OpponentThe game that ended on board four of the Purana Paltan league hall is still...
ChessA FIDE Assembly in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: Ledger of an Information BreakdownWhat the headline promised, the body refused to deliver. The headline read...
ChessA Crown in Tsaghkadzor, an Ad for 9...a5: The Hollow Headline of Chess Media"From Tsaghkadzor to the Grand Final—European Schools Chess champions were...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: A Sixty-Minute Weapon, a Borrowed Name, and the Depreciation of SurpriseThree moves had been played. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 — and then Black's finger came dow...
Chess15-Year-Old Hussain Besou Co-Leads Bavarian Championship: A German Pipeline Signal, Not an Elite BreakthroughThe scoreboard after the seventh round of the Bavarian Championship had one...
ChessFour Doors After 1.d4 d5: What Lies Inside Installment #746, and What Doesn'tInstallment #746. Two names in the title — Jeffery Xiong, Awonder Liang. Anyo...
ChessThe Hollow Frame of a Chess Report: What Sports Journalism Says When Analysis StopsA draft chess report landed on my desk on a Monday morning. There was no titl...
ChessChess: A Global Sport Framed by the Art of the BoardChess requires only sixty-four squares and thirty-two pieces, yet out of this...
ChessFujairah Set to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final, but the Report Reads Like an Advertisement for ChessBase MagazineThe World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) Grand Prix Final will be...
ChessThe Cell That Stayed Empty: Bangladesh Chess Has a Record Problem, Not a Talent ProblemThe table had seven rows. Six of them carried the letters N/A — no title, no...
ChessEight Metrics, One Null Answer: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh ChessEight Metrics, One Null Answer: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh Chess...
ChessTwo Club Champions, an Empty Scoreboard1:40 a.m. in Penang. On the laptop screen, a ChessBase headline: “Bayegan...
ChessA Title in the Headline, an Advertisement on the Page: Diagnosing Rachel Li's 'Stunning' WinThe headline said this: Rachel Li has stunningly won the US Women's...
ChessA Najdorf Label on an Elephant Gambit: The Silent Injury Inside a 60-Minute 'Secret Weapon'2:40 a.m. The laptop's blue light sits on the wall of my Colombo flat. The...
ChessEuropean Club Cup Round Four: Giri–Abdusattorov on Board One, but the Match Arithmetic Starts on Board ThreeAt eleven at night, from a flat in Mymensingh, I opened the round-four pairin...
ChessCarlsen's Admission: The Limits of Human Chess in the AI Era and Budapest's New ExperimentMagnus Carlsen's interviews always generate discussion. In an interview with...
ChessThe Nicosia Meeting, the Wrong President, and Fritz 20: Auditing Chess Media's Ledger2:17 a.m. The router in my Khulna flat has dropped again. On the phone screen...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: A Wrong Headline, an Honest Repertoire, and the Price of Carlsen's NameThe package that landed on my desk last week came with a headline about the...
ChessClub Cup in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase #225 and the Catalogue of the Knowledge MarketEleven fifty at night, Khulna. The steel cupboard is open. Inside, old...
ChessDortmund on the Headline, Scandinavian Inside: The Receipt With No InvoiceA listing. The headline reads: Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027. Open it and...
ChessSixty Minutes of Elephant Gambit: How Chess's Course Economy Turns Tournament News into ProductThere were two sentences in the headline. The first: Woodward has taken down...
ChessNews in the Headline, Advertisement in the Body: The Elephant Gambit and the Funnel Economy of Chess CoursesLast week I opened a chess newsletter and the first thing I saw looked like a...
Chess5.e5 in Sveshnikov's Shadow: The Trap Market and the Gap in the SubtitleOn move five, White's e-pawn lunges one square forward — e5. On a board of...
ChessA New Block in Chess Training: Kavutskiy's FritzTrainer Courses and the Blockchain-Aware MarketBlock 1: Hook — “I began tagging goals, and the goals began to sort...
ChessThe 3.Bc4 Question Is the Wrong One: An Eleven-Year-Old's 2504 at Samarkand and the Rest of the LedgerThere are few cameras inside the hall in Samarkand, but the headline was loud...
ChessIs Chess 'Silent' to Watch? Separating Expressiveness from WatchabilityOn August 30, 2026, I was in a Delhi studio calling the FIDE Online Chess...
ChessThe Real Price of the 5.e5 Line: Not Theoretical Superiority, but the Ledger of an Unprepared OpponentThe game that ended on board four of the Purana Paltan league hall is still...
ChessA FIDE Assembly in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: Ledger of an Information BreakdownWhat the headline promised, the body refused to deliver. The headline read...
ChessA Crown in Tsaghkadzor, an Ad for 9...a5: The Hollow Headline of Chess Media"From Tsaghkadzor to the Grand Final—European Schools Chess champions were...