Chess
41 National Championships, a 19-Point Gap: Tracing Bangladesh Chess's Missing Years
The Title Says Black, the Tape Says White: A Sixty-Minute Course and the Ledger of Board Six at Purana Paltan
A Tsaghkadzor Headline, a 9...a5 Body: Autopsy of a Feed Fracture
The Missing Moves on the Chessboard: Eight Dimensions of Chess Analysis Stalled by Lack of Evidence
ChessThe Missing Moves on the Chessboard: Eight Dimensions of Chess Analysis Stalled by Lack of EvidenceThe chessboard contains 64 squares. Every square holds a possibility, every...
ChessThe Information Deficit in Chess Analysis: A Methodological Review Across Eight DimensionsIntroduction Over the past two decades, international chess journalism has...
ChessIs Chess Really a Silent Sport? A 250-Million-Viewer Market and the Gap in One SentenceLast year, one sentence in a conversation caught my eye. Chess was being call...
Chess41 National Championships, a 19-Point Gap: Tracing Bangladesh Chess's Missing YearsWhen I bought a second-hand scanner in January 2026, I was 52. After twenty-s...
ChessThe Title Says Black, the Tape Says White: A Sixty-Minute Course and the Ledger of Board Six at Purana PaltanOn 13 January 2026, a Tuesday, the third round at the Bangladesh Chess...
ChessCaruana in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: Chess Media's Undeclared AdvertisementI opened an online chess course page at eleven at night because the next...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Average Rating and the New Money Geography of Club ChessStanding in the hotel corridor in Budva, the first thing I noticed was not...
ChessSixty Minutes for a Defence: The Scandinavian, Carlsen's Name, and the New Economics of Chess InstructionEleven at night in a Delhi flat last week. On the phone screen, a link — the...
ChessCounting the Elephant Gambit's Pawn-Ledger: A 60-Minute Course as a Sales Unit and a Real Risk AuditThe headline says the European Club Cup has begun in Budva. Then comes the...
ChessA Budva Headline, a Gambit Body: The Elephant Gambit and the Economics of Chess InstructionThe headline was clear: the European Club Cup begins in Budva. Below it,...
ChessThe Archive of an Empty Board: Why Bangladesh's Chess Does Not Keep Its Own Moves, and Whether Blockchain Can Fill the VoidI looked at the screen a second time from my room in Mymensingh. An analysis...
ChessOne Result, One Advertisement: Liang–Niemann and the ChessBase #225 Cash LedgerA pre-dawn hour in October 2026, in a Khulna flat. On the table, a 2026 lapto...
ChessA 3.Bc4 Question, a 2504 Ledger: One Eleven-Year-Old on Board One in SamarkandAgainst the Sicilian Defense, 3.Bc4 — the headline ends with a question mark,...
ChessA Tsaghkadzor Headline, a 9...a5 Body: Autopsy of a Feed FractureHalf past eleven at night, a desk in Bangalore. I was scrolling a feed when a...
ChessThe Knight With No Name: The Scandinavian Defence and the Economics of Celebrity EndorsementIn a club room in Delhi, one evening last month, a player in his fifties held...
ChessNepo in the Headline, a Dragon in the Art, an Empty Database Inside1.d4 d5 2.c4 — three moves that open chess's heaviest theory. But if White...
ChessAn Anti-Scotch Advertisement Wearing a FIDE Ratings MaskLast night, in my Mymensingh room, I typed into the laptop: "FIDE Ratings,...
ChessFrom Sicilian to Market: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Shift in Chess Content EconomicsHook: A 2 AM stream in Penang during the 45th Chess Olympiad (Budapest,...
ChessThe Headline Sold a Match. The Page Sold a Video.A February morning at a kitchen table in Saint Petersburg. A cup of tea on on...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, Sixty Minutes of Course Inside: The Ledger of a Feed ErrorI opened the file at two in the morning in Dublin, five hours behind the desk...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body — The Chess Document That Leaked ItselfSamarkand, Round 8. In the evening feed the headline hit hard: Germany stunne...
ChessSamarkand on the Label, Prague in the Cargo: The Gap Between a Chess Content Wrapper and Its CargoThe label was explicit: Samarkand, Round 8, women's section, China leading...
ChessA Samarkand R8 Headline on a Scandinavian Course Body: The Receipt Nobody ReconciledA feed item landed on my desk last week. The headline read: “Samarkand R8...
ChessSavitha Shri: 7/7 in Samarkand, and Three Years in Her Father's LedgerThe clock had passed five hours when Thursday's round at the Samarkand Olympi...
Chess27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles: Why Humans Still Buy Human Annotation in the Engine AgeAt half past two in the morning, the first thing I saw when the file opened o...
ChessSeven Wins, One Small Shadow: Samarkand's Reserve Board and a Father's Five-Year SumHook: The Board Where the Sum Did Not Add Up Thursday's round in Samarkand ra...