Chess
Wei Yi's Black-Side Resistance Model at the Olympiad's Eighth Round: Space, Patience and Counterattack Against the Keymer System
108 Teams in Budva, One 2715: The Paper Favourite at the European Club Cup and the Gap in the Headline
9...a5: A Claimed Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, and the Cracks in Its Own Paperwork
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense and the Economics of Chess Preparation
5.e5! in the Italian Game: The Cheap Club Trap That Keeps No Ledger
ChessBase Magazine #225: Behind the Sicilian Brilliancy, the Real Story Is the Content Market, Not the Chess
Petroff or Scandinavian? A 60-Minute Video and the Accounting Gap in the Chess WorldThe title carries GM Fabien Libiszewski's 'The Petroff Defence - Fight for Mo...
Petroff or Scandinavian: Opening Confusion, Carlsen's Name and the Marketing Mathematics of a 60-Minute Chess CourseA chess opening course carries Petroff Defence in its title. The title also...
Hong Kong Team Rapid vs. Chinese Individual Rapid: One Headline, Two RealitiesWhen I saw the 5-1, 5-1 scoreline in the final of the Hong Kong Team Rapid an...
Wei Yi's Black-Side Resistance Model at the Olympiad's Eighth Round: Space, Patience and Counterattack Against the Keymer SystemIntroduction: Method, Not Result The eighth round of the Chess Olympiad. In a...
Lilov's Six Videos and an Incomplete Argument: A Review of the Traps After 1.d4 d5Last week at two in the morning I opened an old notebook. Notes from the 2026...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Lead on Paper, but the Direct Clashes Will DecideThe European Club Cup 2026 is under way on the Montenegrin coast at Budva, wi...
108 Teams in Budva, One 2715: The Paper Favourite at the European Club Cup and the Gap in the HeadlineAt 1:40 in the morning I had 108 rows in a spreadsheet. Each row carried a cl...
Carlsen's Confession: Humans Are No Longer Extraordinary in the Age of Chess EnginesOn Wednesday night, when the most recognizable face in chess sat before the...
Magnus's Confession: At 35, the Body, AI, and the Reason Chess Is ChangingMagnus Carlsen is 35 now. He has been world No. 1 for 15 consecutive years. P...
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: The Nicosia Headline Error and Chess’s Real Power MapA Nicosia headline stated that FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus Preside...
9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet, or a Commercial Salve for Preparation Anxiety?I went looking for the author's name first. It was not there. On the second...
9...a5: A Claimed Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, and the Cracks in Its Own PaperworkBatumi, September 2026. A folding chair beside the hall of the 43rd Chess...
Atyrau's 'Upset' and 27 Miniatures: The Real Story Buried Inside ChessBase Magazine #225I did not understand the room before I had tagged 640 games. This was 2026:...
The Empty Cell: The Ledger Bangladesh Chess Never KeptA Tuesday in December 2026. Between the second and third rounds at the...
Late Start, Late Verdict: Bundesliga 2026/87 and the Silent Fracture of an InstitutionI have watched with a clock in hand — an institution's heartbeat is first...
Not a Bundesliga Dispute: The Reality Is the Elephant Gambit — A Deep Analysis of a Sixty-Minute Video ProductOccasionally, chess journalism produces an article whose title bears no...
The Elephant Gambit: A Pawn Sacrifice on Move Two and the Lesson of a Mislabeled HeadlineI opened the product page because of the headline. It read: a dispute in the...
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense and the Economics of Chess PreparationIn September 2026, sitting in the press center of the 43rd Chess Olympiad in...
The Scotch Revival: From Kasparov's 2026 to a Headline That Doesn't MatchIn the press room of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai in 2026, I learned...
One Result, One Advertisement, and One Blank PageOn a Tuesday morning in mid-October last year, at my desk in Bangalore, I lai...
5.e5! in the Italian Game: The Cheap Club Trap That Keeps No LedgerOn a seventh board at a Moscow club tournament last January, a score sheet...
Caruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Chess-Media Page Nobody CommissionedHook — One Page, Two Boards A page landed in front of me last month. I scroll...
Is Chess Really the 'Least Expressive' Sport? A Board, a Clock, and the Question No Scoreboard AnswersSeven in the evening. In the hall of a chess club in Purana Paltan, a clock i...
Petroff or Scandinavian: Opening Confusion, Carlsen's Name and the Marketing Mathematics of a 60-Minute Chess CourseA chess opening course carries Petroff Defence in its title. The title also...
Hong Kong Team Rapid vs. Chinese Individual Rapid: One Headline, Two RealitiesWhen I saw the 5-1, 5-1 scoreline in the final of the Hong Kong Team Rapid an...
Wei Yi's Black-Side Resistance Model at the Olympiad's Eighth Round: Space, Patience and Counterattack Against the Keymer SystemIntroduction: Method, Not Result The eighth round of the Chess Olympiad. In a...
Lilov's Six Videos and an Incomplete Argument: A Review of the Traps After 1.d4 d5Last week at two in the morning I opened an old notebook. Notes from the 2026...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Lead on Paper, but the Direct Clashes Will DecideThe European Club Cup 2026 is under way on the Montenegrin coast at Budva, wi...
108 Teams in Budva, One 2715: The Paper Favourite at the European Club Cup and the Gap in the HeadlineAt 1:40 in the morning I had 108 rows in a spreadsheet. Each row carried a cl...
Carlsen's Confession: Humans Are No Longer Extraordinary in the Age of Chess EnginesOn Wednesday night, when the most recognizable face in chess sat before the...
Magnus's Confession: At 35, the Body, AI, and the Reason Chess Is ChangingMagnus Carlsen is 35 now. He has been world No. 1 for 15 consecutive years. P...
Timur Turlov Is Not FIDE President: The Nicosia Headline Error and Chess’s Real Power MapA Nicosia headline stated that FIDE President Timur Turlov met Cyprus Preside...
9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet, or a Commercial Salve for Preparation Anxiety?I went looking for the author's name first. It was not there. On the second...
9...a5: A Claimed Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, and the Cracks in Its Own PaperworkBatumi, September 2026. A folding chair beside the hall of the 43rd Chess...
Atyrau's 'Upset' and 27 Miniatures: The Real Story Buried Inside ChessBase Magazine #225I did not understand the room before I had tagged 640 games. This was 2026:...
The Empty Cell: The Ledger Bangladesh Chess Never KeptA Tuesday in December 2026. Between the second and third rounds at the...
Late Start, Late Verdict: Bundesliga 2026/87 and the Silent Fracture of an InstitutionI have watched with a clock in hand — an institution's heartbeat is first...
Not a Bundesliga Dispute: The Reality Is the Elephant Gambit — A Deep Analysis of a Sixty-Minute Video ProductOccasionally, chess journalism produces an article whose title bears no...
The Elephant Gambit: A Pawn Sacrifice on Move Two and the Lesson of a Mislabeled HeadlineI opened the product page because of the headline. It read: a dispute in the...
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense and the Economics of Chess PreparationIn September 2026, sitting in the press center of the 43rd Chess Olympiad in...
The Scotch Revival: From Kasparov's 2026 to a Headline That Doesn't MatchIn the press room of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai in 2026, I learned...
One Result, One Advertisement, and One Blank PageOn a Tuesday morning in mid-October last year, at my desk in Bangalore, I lai...
5.e5! in the Italian Game: The Cheap Club Trap That Keeps No LedgerOn a seventh board at a Moscow club tournament last January, a score sheet...
Caruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Chess-Media Page Nobody CommissionedHook — One Page, Two Boards A page landed in front of me last month. I scroll...
Is Chess Really the 'Least Expressive' Sport? A Board, a Clock, and the Question No Scoreboard AnswersSeven in the evening. In the hall of a chess club in Purana Paltan, a clock i...