Chess
A Crown in the Headline, a Course Ad in the Body: Auditing One Chess-Media Receipt
Vietnam's Gold, the Shadow of Group B, and the Light of Two Norms
Chess 'Underdog' Line on Blockchain Ledger: 5.e5! and the Cold Reality of Source-less Analysis
Two 2–2s in Samarkand: India's Silver and Bronze, Uzbekistan's Gold, and the Quiet Arithmetic of 8.5/9
Six Videos, Seven Openings: Auditing a Black Repertoire Against 1.d4 d5 Sidelines
ChessThe Scandinavian in Carlsen's Shadow: Forty Squares, No CrowdBeneath the name of a German tournament lay a video advertisement —...
ChessAlexei Sarana's Remarkable King Walk at the Olympiad: A Strategic Masterclass in Patience and Positional PressureThe clock kept moving. The pieces remained locked in their positions, with...
ChessFrom the Steel Cupboard to Hong Kong: Ding Liren's Crown and the Fog of a HeadlineThe steel cupboard at Purana Paltan still holds a dried coffee ring — exactly...
ChessChess World: Two Child Prodigies, Victim of PoliticsIntroduction: The Impact of Politics on Modern Chess In the modern chess worl...
ChessA Letter Written in the Language of Moves: Wei Yi's Keymer System Defence and the Quiet Lesson of Sixty-Four SquaresIn the club room at Purana Paltan, a coffee ring is still drying on the steel...
ChessChigorin or Italian? The Identity Puzzle Left in a Chess Repertoire Product's PromotionA published deep analysis of a commercial chess opening product has surfaced ...
ChessGap Between Title and Content: Questions Around Libiszewski's 60 Minutes Chess PackageIn the competitive chess market, commercial opening-preparation packages have...
ChessTotal Chess's Unified Rating: Six Empty Chairs at the Budapest TableThe last line of the press release is a photo credit — FIDE. After reading th...
ChessTwo Results Buried Under an Elephant Gambit AdvertLast week, in a training room in Rangpur, I was finishing notes on an old...
ChessThe Impact of Information Void in Blockchain Analysis: A Methodological ReviewThe reliability and availability of information in blockchain technology and...
ChessA Crown in the Headline, a Course Ad in the Body: Auditing One Chess-Media ReceiptLast week I opened a chess news page and the first thing I saw was a sentence...
ChessSCHACH's English Edition CHESS INSIGHT and Saint Louis's $400,000: Two Chess Stories Under One Patron's ShadowLast week a press note landed on my desk, and its most useful piece of...
ChessVietnam's Gold, the Shadow of Group B, and the Light of Two NormsIt was nearly three in the morning in my Mymensingh bedroom, and I had blown ...
ChessChess 'Underdog' Line on Blockchain Ledger: 5.e5! and the Cold Reality of Source-less AnalysisI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In 2026 at the 43rd...
ChessA Claim of the Youngest WGM at 11 and a 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Course: An Audit of a Data MismatchHook: 14/16 — One Headline, One Ledger The document that landed on my desk la...
ChessTwo 2–2s in Samarkand: India's Silver and Bronze, Uzbekistan's Gold, and the Quiet Arithmetic of 8.5/9In the eleventh round of the 46th Chess Olympiad, India's open team drew 2–2...
ChessSamarkand Round Seven: A Headline With No Pieces, Only a ShopI set the cup down on the glass and noticed the ring underneath had not chang...
ChessSamarkand R7 (Women): Chess in the Headline, Advertising in the Body — Counting China–Kazakhstan's One-Match-Point LeadThe headline stopped my hand: “Samarkand R7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan dra...
ChessA Samarkand R7 Headline and a Bayonet Attack DVD: A Data Audit of the 9...a5 ClaimA Samarkand R7 Headline and a Bayonet Attack DVD: A Data Audit of the 9...a5...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: A Quiet Fracture in Chess's Information MarketA December night in Mymensingh. The secondhand laptop is open in my bedroom, ...
ChessFrom Samarkand Round 7 to Fritz 20: One Headline, Eight Advertisements, and the Uncounted HeartbeatsThe wire line arrived in the evening. "Samarkand R7 (women): China and...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Board: The Arithmetic Inside the 9...a5 Antidote ClaimThe headline promised round seven in Samarkand, promised Uzbekistan extending...
ChessWhere the Word ‘Again’ Does the Work of Four Boards: India’s Women and Poland in Round 5 of the Chess OlympiadOne word — ‘again’. To establish Poland as the Indian women’s Achilles heel,...
ChessSixty Minutes Against the Scotch: When a Headline Carries a Player Who Never ExistedSixty Minutes Against the Scotch: When a Headline Carries a Player Who Never...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings: Auditing a Black Repertoire Against 1.d4 d5 SidelinesHook Six videos. Seven openings. The first thing I did when this announcement...
ChessThe Scotch Game: A Wrong File in the Steel Cupboard, the 2026 Shadow, and the 2026 Opening MarketA hand-written label sits on the second shelf of the steel cupboard:...