Chess
The Board With No Pieces: Bangladesh's Chess Journalism and the Empty Scoresheet
This Is Not Chess, It Is a Silent Play — How Wei Yi's Closed Position Became a Lesson for Mid-Table Players
‘Samisch’ in the Title, ‘Keymer System’ in the Body: Questions Surrounding Wei Yi’s Olympiad Model Game
Six Videos Sold as a Giri-Abdusattorov Game Analysis: A Warning for Chess Readers
A Perfect Score With an Imperfect Ledger: The European Club Cup, the Scotch, and a Decade-Old Advertisement
5-1, 5-1: The Scoreline That Says Nothing About Ding Liren's Form21 June 2026, Hong Kong. The final of the World Team Rapid and Blitz...
The Board With No Pieces: Bangladesh's Chess Journalism and the Empty ScoresheetOn a particular afternoon, sitting in a bedroom in Mymensingh with a secondha...
This Is Not Chess, It Is a Silent Play — How Wei Yi's Closed Position Became a Lesson for Mid-Table PlayersA closed position from the eighth round of the Chess Olympiad. When I covered...
‘Samisch’ in the Title, ‘Keymer System’ in the Body: Questions Surrounding Wei Yi’s Olympiad Model GameA product-introduction piece published around an instructional chess video...
Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang — A Chess Game in the Title, an Advertisement in the TextThe headline reads “Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang,” and on first glan...
Behind Installment 746: Promotion, Not Analysis, of the Anti-Theory Sidesteps After 1.d4The 746th installment of a long-running weekly chess series carries two names...
The Repertoire That Doesn't Know Which Colour It's ArmingHalf past eleven at night, the blue light of a laptop screen in a Delhi flat,...
Six Videos Sold as a Giri-Abdusattorov Game Analysis: A Warning for Chess ReadersThe title said Giri vs Abdusattorov, Game of the Week #745. I set up the boar...
9...a5 Under a Capablanca Cover: Auditing a King's Indian 'Antidote'January 2026. A flat in Purana Paltan, seven in the evening. I loaded an old...
Bodhana's Record at 11: The Number Isn't Her Age, It's the CalendarOctober 23, Budva, Montenegro. European Club Cup, women's section, board one,...
The Elephant Gambit Under a Najdorf Label: The Record of a 60-Minute 'Surprise Weapon' CourseA product page. The headline reads 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation.' The...
A Perfect Score With an Imperfect Ledger: The European Club Cup, the Scotch, and a Decade-Old AdvertisementThere was one line on the screen. Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect....
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: A Nicosia Headline Built on a Wrong Title, a Body Built on an AdA FIDE president meeting a head of state in Nicosia — the headline stops you...
An Endgame Title, an Opening Board: The Bodhana Hook and the 5...d5 TestAt 11:40 p.m. in a Mumbai flat, I opened a folded chessboard and counted the...
The Hour of the Seconds: A Quiet Test of the Engine Era in a Mar del Plata SidelineI counted first, then looked at the board. An analysis of a commercial openin...
European Club Cup on the Cover, 27 Miniatures Inside: Auditing the Chess Product Called Issue 225A little after eleven on Friday night I opened the promotional page for...
Twenty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: Where the Ledger Audit Finds Headline and Body on Separate RoadsThirteen information points. One headline. And in between, an unbridgeable...
A 2027 Dortmund Trophy Headline, a 60-Minute Video Body: A Ledger Audit of the GapA file landed on my desk last week. The headline was clean: Dortmund Sparkass...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: How a US Championship Headline Became a Course AdvertisementFrom a Mymensingh bedroom I watch chess on a screen, and over the past few da...
A Sixty-Minute Gambit and the Echo of an Empty Room: How a US Championship Headline Becomes a ProductNovember 2026. On the second floor of the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall in...
Atyrau's Headline, Empty Page: Dhaka's Ledger in the Training-Material EconomyThe Atyrau Masters headline is the first thing that greets you on opening iss...
Headline-Content Mismatch: FIDE General Assembly Resolution or a Scandinavian Defense Video?A recently published blockchain news report carried an eye-catching headline:...
The Endgame Professor: Karsten Müller, Bundesliga Longevity and the Missing Denominator in Chess InstructionIn November 2026 a ledger lay open on my desk in Dublin. Across the top I had...
The Man Who Keeps the Ledger of the Endgame: Karsten Müller and Chess's Silent ArchitectureI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. It was two in the...
The Revival of the Scotch and the Economy of the Antidote: From Kasparov's 2026 to Mikhalchishin's '60 Minutes'October and November 2026, New York and Lyon. When Garry Kasparov answered 1....
A New Board in the Shadow of the Steel Cupboard: Kavutskiy's Calculation and the Unfinished Chess of the Club PlayerThe steel cupboard in the corner of the Purana Paltan chess hall still stands...
Can 3.Bc4 Beat the Sicilian? Bodhana Sivanandan's 2504 and the Load Autopsy of an Eleven-Year-Old BodySeven rounds, six points. An Elo performance of 2504. Board one. Age eleven....
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: Black's Quiet Antidote, or a DVD Selling a Story?Opening: An Uncomfortable Calm on the Board Seven in the evening in a Dhaka...
Answering the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian with 9...a5 — A DVD's Promise and the Kazakhstan Headline GapLast week, while digging through an old press note, two things surfaced side ...
Is Chess Really an 'Inexpressive' Sport? A Former Badminton Star's Comment and the Real Question of Spectator ExperienceIn an interview, former badminton player Naganethra Reddy said chess is one o...
Heartbeats in Paltan: The Quiet Autopsy of a Chess Federation[Introduction] It sounds strange to hear, but on July 5, 2026, before...