Chess
ChessA Course Advertised as a Ratings List: Opening the Ledger of the Scotch Game2026-10-02The headline said "FIDE Ratings – October 2026". The first thing I found insi...
ChessSixty Minutes of Promise, Zero Sources: The Mismatch Between Samarkand's Headline and a Scandinavian Course2026-09-26It was nearly two in the morning in Penang. Blue laptop light on the desk, a...
ChessTwo Crowns, No Scoresheet: Club Chess Money Geography and a Magazine's Advertisement2026-10-25It was nearly two in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom. A headline surfaced...
Two Crowns, No Scoresheet: Club Chess Money Geography and a Magazine's AdvertisementIt was nearly two in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom. A headline surfaced...
One Lone 2715 Horse, a Crowd of 108 Teams: The Paper Favourite in Budva and the Real Gap Between the BoardsOn the morning of 19 October 2026, in a hall in Budva, I stopped at the third...
Commercial Courses Are Rewriting Chess Preparation: The Rebirth of the Elephant GambitWhat can you tell from the first move? After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, when Black pushes...
The Impact of Empty Data on Blockchain AnalysisTransparency and reliability of information are paramount in blockchain...
The Arithmetic of 5.e5: The Italian Game's Modern Variation, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Quiet Ledger of the Club BoardHook: The Push to e5 It was nearly two in the morning in Saint Petersburg, a...
Chess's 'Silence' Debate: Expressiveness and Watchability Are Two Different QuestionsNaganethra Reddy once sweated it out on a badminton court. Later she worked o...
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen: The Gap Between ChessBase's Headline and RealityI sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue. In...
A Mirror of the Chess-Content Economy: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Dominance of Opening Theory, and the 'Bent Larsen' Headline MismatchThe chess world today is shaped as much by the economics of content as by the...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, One Wrong Headline, and Bangladesh's LedgerLast week, at half past eleven at night, I opened a file on the laptop at my...
A Course Advertised as a Ratings List: Opening the Ledger of the Scotch GameThe headline said "FIDE Ratings – October 2026". The first thing I found insi...
The Quiet Logic of 9...a5: The King's Indian Against the Bayonet, and the Claims of an Antidote DVDBatumi, September 2026. In the hall of the 43rd Chess Olympiad I sit in the...
45. Rd1 — One Move in Samarkand and the Ledger of Indian Chess ArithmeticHook In the tournament hall in Samarkand that evening, the loudest thing was...
The Fifth Board in Samarkand: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Savings That Ran Out in Three YearsLast Thursday in Samarkand the board clock leaned toward five hours, and insi...
Germany on the Headline, Scandinavia in the Body: What Reading Samarkand Round 8 Actually Turned UpGermany on the Headline, Scandinavia in the Body: What Reading Samarkand Roun...
The Headline Said Samarkand. The File Said Prague.The headline said Samarkand. The file said Prague. The feed entry read:...
Reserve Board, Seven Wins, Three Years of Savings: Auditing Savitha's Ledger in SamarkandHook: The board on which nothing appeared to be happening At the Samarkand...
Sword of Damocles: The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Data That Isn't ThereThis morning I opened a thirteen-point product blurb. The title is "Sword of...
Sixty Minutes of Promise, Zero Sources: The Mismatch Between Samarkand's Headline and a Scandinavian CourseIt was nearly two in the morning in Penang. Blue laptop light on the desk, a...
A Headline Sold a Result, the Page Sold a Course: The Ledger That Fell Out of Samarkand's Round EightAt seven forty-two on a Thursday morning, tea on the Bangalore balcony, phone...
One Lone 2715 Horse, a Crowd of 108 Teams: The Paper Favourite in Budva and the Real Gap Between the BoardsOn the morning of 19 October 2026, in a hall in Budva, I stopped at the third...
Commercial Courses Are Rewriting Chess Preparation: The Rebirth of the Elephant GambitWhat can you tell from the first move? After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, when Black pushes...
The Impact of Empty Data on Blockchain AnalysisTransparency and reliability of information are paramount in blockchain...
The Arithmetic of 5.e5: The Italian Game's Modern Variation, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Quiet Ledger of the Club BoardHook: The Push to e5 It was nearly two in the morning in Saint Petersburg, a...
Chess's 'Silence' Debate: Expressiveness and Watchability Are Two Different QuestionsNaganethra Reddy once sweated it out on a badminton court. Later she worked o...
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen: The Gap Between ChessBase's Headline and RealityI sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue. In...
A Mirror of the Chess-Content Economy: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Dominance of Opening Theory, and the 'Bent Larsen' Headline MismatchThe chess world today is shaped as much by the economics of content as by the...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, One Wrong Headline, and Bangladesh's LedgerLast week, at half past eleven at night, I opened a file on the laptop at my...
A Course Advertised as a Ratings List: Opening the Ledger of the Scotch GameThe headline said "FIDE Ratings – October 2026". The first thing I found insi...
The Quiet Logic of 9...a5: The King's Indian Against the Bayonet, and the Claims of an Antidote DVDBatumi, September 2026. In the hall of the 43rd Chess Olympiad I sit in the...
45. Rd1 — One Move in Samarkand and the Ledger of Indian Chess ArithmeticHook In the tournament hall in Samarkand that evening, the loudest thing was...
The Fifth Board in Samarkand: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Savings That Ran Out in Three YearsLast Thursday in Samarkand the board clock leaned toward five hours, and insi...
Germany on the Headline, Scandinavia in the Body: What Reading Samarkand Round 8 Actually Turned UpGermany on the Headline, Scandinavia in the Body: What Reading Samarkand Roun...
The Headline Said Samarkand. The File Said Prague.The headline said Samarkand. The file said Prague. The feed entry read:...
Reserve Board, Seven Wins, Three Years of Savings: Auditing Savitha's Ledger in SamarkandHook: The board on which nothing appeared to be happening At the Samarkand...
Sword of Damocles: The 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Data That Isn't ThereThis morning I opened a thirteen-point product blurb. The title is "Sword of...
Sixty Minutes of Promise, Zero Sources: The Mismatch Between Samarkand's Headline and a Scandinavian CourseIt was nearly two in the morning in Penang. Blue laptop light on the desk, a...
A Headline Sold a Result, the Page Sold a Course: The Ledger That Fell Out of Samarkand's Round EightAt seven forty-two on a Thursday morning, tea on the Bangalore balcony, phone...