Chess
A Knight on the Rim: The New Battleground of Anti-Mainstream Openings in Club Chess
Sindarov at Move 17: How Nakamura's Own Line Turned Against Him
9...a5: The 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack and an Incomplete Ledger
Wesley So's Fourth Title: A Crown Won in Tiebreaks, a Record Lost in an Advertisement
Carlsen's Admission: Humans Are 'Not That Good' at Chess in the AI Era
The Sharp Edge of the Italian Game: Sveshnikov's Preferred Variation Offers Attacking Chances and a Test of PreparationThe fifth move can sometimes become the most important decision in a chess...
A Knight on the Rim: The New Battleground of Anti-Mainstream Openings in Club ChessA knight on the edge of the board. Frequently absent from theory books,...
Chess Analysis Needs Evidence: The Risks of Reporting Without Verified Source MaterialA chess match cannot be understood simply by identifying who won and who lost...
ChessBase's Hidden Olympiad Story: The Sicilian Brilliancy and the Reality of the Chess Training MarketBehind the headline: a chess move or a commercial strategy? In chess, an...
Two Openings on One Page: The Crack in the 60-Minute Chess Course CatalogueI was sitting in my Bangalore flat. June rain was scratching the window glass...
The Empty Scoresheet: Auditing the Evidence Gap in Bangladesh's Chess CoverageIn December, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I opened an old laptop and loaded a...
Sindarov at Move 17: How Nakamura's Own Line Turned Against HimAt the Saint Louis Chess Club, the position that had formed by move 17 was no...
Chess in a New Era: The Game Inside the Board, and the Economy and Politics Outside ItChess was long treated as a game of the mind—something confined to school...
Five Empty Boxes in the Fujairah Announcement: The News Missing From the WFCC Final HeadlineLast Tuesday, a little after eleven at night, I opened the ChessBase item. On...
The Empty Folder: The Archive That Cannot Explain Bangladesh's ChessI spent two days in a Dhaka office chasing a single folder. On its cover, in...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye at the NATO Chess Championship: The Headline Claim versus the Documentary RealityThe story that has surfaced around Team Türkiye's success at the NATO Chess...
9...a5: The 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack and an Incomplete LedgerA product blurb. Fourteen information points. And a recommendation that begin...
Echoes in the Steel Cupboard: Nakamura's 'Clutch' Headline and the Fritz Advert GapAt the entrance of the Purana Paltan branch, on the second shelf of the steel...
Two Champions Named, Not a Single Board ExplainedA headline, two club names, then silence. The promotional page for ChessBase...
Wesley So's Fourth Title: A Crown Won in Tiebreaks, a Record Lost in an AdvertisementThe headline was reporting a result. The body was selling a course. Wesley So...
Magnus Carlsen's Confession: The Limits of Human Learning at 35, a New Preparation Architecture, and the Budapest All-Round TestOn 21 October, in an interview with Spain's AS, Magnus Carlsen said that...
Carlsen's Admission: Humans Are 'Not That Good' at Chess in the AI EraIn an interview with Spain's AS newspaper on October 21, Magnus Carlsen said...
The Trap Market: The Move Sold as Easy Is the First to BreakA winter evening in a club hall on the Petrograd Side. A board on the table,...
Sixty-Minute Repertoire: The Scandinavian, Carlsen's Name, and the Board at Purana PaltanThe file arrived with a promise in its subject line: ‘From quitting chess to...
The Unanswered Void of the Elephant Gambit: Why a 60-Minute Shock Is Not a Durable Asset1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!? — the moment those four moves land on the board, a specifi...