Chess
Seventeen Years, Five Names, One Empty Square
Modern Chess: An Ancient Game Transformed by Technology
The 'Antidote' Claim of 9...a5 and a Title-Body Mismatch
Bodhana in the Headline, 5...e5 in the Body: A Chess Column's Ledger Mismatch
The Model-Game Trap: A Closed Sicilian, a Vanished 7.b3, and Bangladesh's Quiet Ledger
Chess Analysis Without Evidence: Players, Tournaments and Competitive Context Remain UnknownA chess position cannot be evaluated without knowing the pieces, the clock an...
Seventeen Years, Five Names, One Empty SquareThe filter takes less than three seconds. I open FIDE's rating database, type...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Depth Limits of a Training Series in the Chess Instruction MarketWhen I sit down as Black against the London System, I always keep one number ...
Keymer System on the Board, Sämisch in the Title: Auditing Wei Yi's 'Masterpiece' ClaimOn October 15, 2026, I opened the video in Moscow and stopped at the third...
Modern Chess: An Ancient Game Transformed by TechnologyModern chess is no longer a quiet game played in a silent reading room. A gam...
Sixty Minutes of Chigorin, an Italian on the Board: A Data Fault Inside a Chess Repertoire ProductTwo in the morning in Dublin, seven in the morning in Dhaka. I have carried...
A Boy of 11 in the Headline, a Girl of 16 in the Body: The $45,000 Crown and an Unresolved LedgerI opened the file at two in the morning to reconcile a single number. The...
The 'Antidote' Claim of 9...a5 and a Title-Body MismatchA product page landed on my desk last week. The title read "Samarkand R10...
Two Crowns, No Scoreline: What the 2026 European Club Cup Headline Doesn't SayThe headline delivers a verdict in four words: Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo...
A Tiebreak Crown Wrapped in an Advert: Wesley So's Fourth US Title and the Report That Refused to Report ItselfAt the close of classical play in Saint Louis, two names sat level on the...
Rachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defense in the Body: A National Title Buried Under 60 Minutes of PromotionLast week I opened a page. The headline said Rachel Li had stunningly won the...
Carlsen's Confession: Humans Are No Longer Extraordinary in the AI Era of ChessMagnus Carlsen has said in an interview that AI has shown humans are not that...
Bodhana in the Headline, 5...e5 in the Body: A Chess Column's Ledger MismatchI opened the column expecting three endgames. The headline was unambiguous:...
Where the Machine Cannot See: The Seconds of Mar del Plata and the Brutal Truth of a DVDThe man's hands were shaking after round seven at the Paltan table—that line...
Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027: Where the Headline Hunts a Tournament and the Body Sells a VideoA file landed on my desk last week. I stopped at the headline: Dortmund...
Bundesliga in the Title, Elephant Gambit in the Body: Dissecting an Editorial GapThe headline spoke of a dispute in the Bundesliga. Reading through the fiftee...
Empty Data, Fabricated Analysis: Why the Chess Scoresheet Is Its Own BlockchainLast night at the desk, the file I opened was supposed to be a chess analysis...
Liang vs Niemann: One Result, One Advertisement, and Chess's Missing Middle StepThe promotional note for ChessBase Magazine issue 225 reached me on a morning...
The Price of Calculation, the Wound in the Pipeline: ChessBase's New Courses and Bangladesh's Unfinished Chess TreatmentIn a six-hour rook endgame, a 51-year-old grandmaster's heart rate touched 13...
The Weapon Hidden in the Board's Corner: Jacobson's Closed Sicilian at the UzChess CupThe headline said 7.b3, the Anti-Meran system. But when I pressed play, the...
The Model-Game Trap: A Closed Sicilian, a Vanished 7.b3, and Bangladesh's Quiet LedgerHook: The Move the Headline Left Behind In a hall in Uzbekistan the clock was...
The Quiet Room of Mar del Plata: 9...a5, the DVD, and the Astana TableFebruary 2026. On a morning like any other, the desk sent me two files. The...
The Closed Door of Mar del Plata: Black's 9...a5 Against the Bayonet AttackLast year, late one night at my home in Delhi, a battered DVD box arrived. Th...