Chess
More Advertisement Than Journalism: King's Indian DVD Sold Under the Headline of Tsaghkadzor Schools Championship
The Steel Cupboard's Echo: The Chess Story Bangladesh Never Wrote from the Seventies to Now
Sixty Minutes, Two Colours: The Repertoire That Won't Say Which Side You're On
Bodhana in the Headline, the Elephant Gambit in the Body: The Ledger That Does Not Add Up
ChessThe Limits of Chess Analysis Without Evidence: An Incomplete Research Picture Without Players, Matches or TournamentsA meaningful chess report begins with evidence: the players involved, the...
Chess2...d5: A Gambit, a Sixty-Minute Course, and a Name Left Hanging in the HeadlineAt 1:40 in the morning the club room in Penang still smelled of rain and wet...
ChessMore Advertisement Than Journalism: King's Indian DVD Sold Under the Headline of Tsaghkadzor Schools ChampionshipLast week, while scrolling online, I stopped at a headline. It announced that...
ChessThe Steel Cupboard's Echo: The Chess Story Bangladesh Never Wrote from the Seventies to NowOne afternoon in 2026, I walked into the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at...
ChessFujairah in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: A News-Verification ReportAnyone reading the headline of the latest ChessBase item would reasonably...
ChessSixty Minutes, Two Colours: The Repertoire That Won't Say Which Side You're OnIt is nearly two in the morning in a Saint Petersburg flat. A sixty-minute...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian, Carlsen's Name, and a Ledger Left UnfinishedSixty minutes. Late last month, past eleven at night, I started a stopwatch a...
ChessAtyrau Masters: Top Two Seeds Fall in Opening Rounds, but ChessBase Magazine #225 Offers Only a HeadlineThe opening rounds of the Atyrau Masters in Kazakhstan have produced a striki...
ChessNakamura on the Headline, Fritz in the Body: The Chess-Media Sum That Does Not Add UpI count before I draw a line in the notebook. That page held seven informatio...
ChessBodhana in the Headline, the Elephant Gambit in the Body: The Ledger That Does Not Add UpThere was a small scene at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall in Purana...
ChessTurkey-Monaco Rise in Club Chess: What the 2026 European Club Cup Result Actually Says, and What It Doesn'tWhen a headline emerged last week from one of the oldest publishing houses in...
ChessThe 2715 Question in Budva: How Much Does a Rating Gap Actually Buy in Club Chess?It was 2:40 in the morning. In a bedroom in Mymensingh, the secondhand laptop...
ChessNovy Bor and SuperChess 'Perfect': The Four Numbers Missing From the Club Cup ReportI opened the European Club Cup results page and counted two names. Novy Bor....
ChessThe Wrong Name on the FIDE Presidency: One Headline, Two Separate Stories, and a Lesson for BangladeshIn December 2026, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I was tagging 640 games from th...
ChessConfusion in Chess News: Neiksans Interview Headline Actually Covers Martin's Scandinavian Defence CourseRecently, a serious discrepancy has been observed in chess news distribution....
ChessThe Silence of Move Nine: 9...a5 Against the King's Indian Bayonet and an Unfinished Engine-Era ClaimAn old DVD case lies on my desk in Khulna. A hairline crack runs across the...
ChessWhere Is the Body of the Headline? Atyrau Masters, ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Silent Economy of Chess ContentI sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue. In...
ChessHeartbeats in Paltan: The Death of Ziaur Rahman and the Untreated Injury of Bangladesh's Chess SystemI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than any tackl...
ChessForty Squares, Empty Gallery: Jacobson's Closed Sicilian and the Ledger of a Broken TheoryOn my Khulna desk it was 25 June 2026, half past eleven at night. A 2026...