Chess
Evidence Before Claims: Chess Analysis Halted by a Zero-Information Input
5-1, 5-1: Two Faces of a Hong Kong Title, and an Old Leak in Chess Reporting
Hidden Highlights, Unseen Ledger: An Olympiad Brilliancy and the Content Economy of Chess
Eleven Teams Level, Two Generations on Board One: Where the European Club Cup Is Actually Decided
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Name, and the Quiet Trap of the Chess Market
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: A Ledger Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225
ChessNo Ledger, Only Legends: Bangladesh Chess and the Economics of Missing DataNo Ledger, Only Legends: Bangladesh Chess and the Economics of Missing Data T...
ChessEvidence Before Claims: Chess Analysis Halted by a Zero-Information InputThe most dangerous mistake in chess analysis is not always a bad move....
ChessSindarov's King's Indian: A Ledger That Begins at Move Seventeen and Ends at the World ChampionshipIn the hall in Saint Louis the clock still had time on it. I was drawing the...
Chess5-1, 5-1: Two Faces of a Hong Kong Title, and an Old Leak in Chess ReportingHong Kong, 21 June 2026. A glass-walled hall where the hum of air conditionin...
ChessHidden Highlights, Unseen Ledger: An Olympiad Brilliancy and the Content Economy of ChessHook: A Typo That Survived Editing The headline said Sicilan. One letter shor...
ChessThe Repertoire That Does Not Know Its Own Colour: Auditing a 60-Minute Chigorin File That Describes an Italian 5.e5I opened the product page and looked at the invoice before I looked at the...
ChessThe Scotch Revival: From Kasparov's 2026 to the Club BoardAt a quarter to three in the morning last week, the demo board on my laptop...
ChessA Saint Louis Headline Over Six Videos: Where Chess News Ends and the Shop BeginsOn Monday night I was scrolling a chess news feed. A headline caught my eye:...
ChessEleven Teams Level, Two Generations on Board One: Where the European Club Cup Is Actually DecidedIt was nearly two in the morning in Mymensingh. The laptop threw blue light o...
ChessTurlov Is Not FIDE President: The Nicosia Headline, the FRITZ 20 Ad, and the Verification Gap in Chess MediaThe headline put two heads of state in one line: “FIDE President Timur Turlov...
ChessThe Playbook of FIDE Ratings and Opening Novelties: A Fortress Ledger for Club Players in the Online Boom EraArticle The first thing I saw in the ledger of 27 miniatures was not a...
Chess9...a5: The Move That Sells a Story About Fooling Engines, While Engines Now Write the StoryThe blurb is arranged in sixteen numbered points, and there is not a single...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Name, and the Quiet Trap of the Chess MarketThe video runs sixty minutes. Across the thumbnail, in large letters: "The...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, a FIDE Badge, and the Ledger of a Dhaka Club BoardIn a club rapid tournament in Dhaka last season I sat down to count one thing...
ChessThe Quiet Gamble of 9...a5: A King's Indian DVD, the Bayonet Attack, and a Mislabelled BoxA DVD arrived on my table in Mymensingh. The cover said, "ChessMom returns:...
ChessThe Unfinished Ledger of 5.e5: Erigaisi, Sveshnikov, and the Risk a Club Player InheritsA single white pawn walks into e5, and Black's knight on f6 suddenly has...
ChessThe File Says Samarkand, the Pages Say Prague: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Evidence GapThe File Says Samarkand, the Pages Say Prague: ChessBase Magazine #225 and th...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: A Ledger Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225I opened the file at my desk last night expecting the story to be Samarkand...
ChessThe Headline That Lied: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026 and the Silent Arithmetic of the ArchiveIt arrived in August, in a Saint Petersburg flat, with a cup of tea going col...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and a Headline That Does Not Recognise Its Own FileThe ledger opens with a headline and closes with a gap. I opened the file to...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: A Samarkand Headline, a Training-Market BodyAt two in the morning at my Dublin desk I opened the file. The headline...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense's Promotional Claim and the Board's LedgerSixty minutes. I do not usually write about the runtime of an instructional...
ChessA Samarkand Scoreboard, a Prague File: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Actually ShowsHook It was past midnight when I opened a tab. The headline said: Samarkand,...
ChessSamarkand on the Label, Prague Inside: The Day Chess's Archive Misread Its Own TagSamarkand on the Label, Prague Inside The second drawer of the steel cupboard...
ChessSeven From Seven On Board Five: Savitha Shri's Golden Week and the Bill Written In The LedgerIn the Samarkand hall the clock had already passed five hours. On India's ope...