Chess
A Fujairah Final Wrapped in a ChessBase Ad: The Report That Names No Solver
Sixty-Minute Trap: The Confusing Double Identity of the Chigorin and the Italian Game in the Chess Preparation Market
October 2026 Headline, 2026 Merchandise: Questioning Information Integrity in the Chess Market
Gukesh's 54-Move Escape, and the Empty Square in India's Gold Arithmetic
Chess Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Player, Tournament and Results Verification Remain EssentialA single chess move cannot be evaluated properly without understanding the...
Sindarov Against Nakamura's Own Preparation: Confidence or Added Pressure Before the World Championship?A familiar sequence in a chess room in Saint Louis can sometimes produce an...
A Fujairah Final Wrapped in a ChessBase Ad: The Report That Names No SolverLast week I opened ChessBase's homepage and stopped at the headline. Fujairah...
Sixty-Minute Trap: The Confusing Double Identity of the Chigorin and the Italian Game in the Chess Preparation MarketIn the chess world, opening preparation is no longer a matter of personal...
The Table Nobody Kept: The Empty Cells in Bangladesh's Chess RecordOn the white board fixed to the right wall of the BCF hall at Purana Paltan,...
Where the Headline Is News and the Body Is an Ad: The US Championship, the Elephant Gambit, and an Empty HallIt was eleven at night. The laptop was open on my table in Rangpur, and besid...
A Headline Wrapped Around the Elephant Gambit: How a US Championship Result Became a Course-Selling DeviceLate last month I opened my laptop at two in the morning. The headline said a...
The Scotch Revival: Kasparov's 2026, Mikhalchishin's Video, and a Headline's False PromiseLast week I sat down to a headline promising young British prodigies. I set u...
Board Geometry: The Nation That Made South Asia's First Grandmaster, Then Went Seventeen Years Without OneHook 5 July 2026. A Premier Division league match in Dhaka was in progress. T...
3.Bc4, 2504, and an Eleven-Year-Old on Board One: What Lies Behind the Sicilian HeadlineSix points from seven rounds, board one, age eleven. If the number holds, it ...
October 2026 Headline, 2026 Merchandise: Questioning Information Integrity in the Chess MarketThe pitch remembers what the camera missed. Last week, sitting at my kitchen...
Gukesh's 54-Move Escape, and the Empty Square in India's Gold ArithmeticHook The clock at the Samarkand hall has gone past five hours. On board four...
Forty Squares and a King's Walk: The Opening Column That Promised a Game and Delivered a MoveJanuary 10, 2026, 7:20 in the evening. The laptop on the verandah-side table ...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's Five Hours, and the Ledger the Scoreboard HidesIt is 2:10 in the morning on a balcony in Rangpur, and on the laptop screen...