Chess
Chess Analysis Needs Evidence Before Reporting: The Problem of Missing Source InformationA credible chess report begins with identifiable facts: a specific event, the...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian: A Tactical Antidote's Marketing RhetoricI tagged 640 games in a Mymensingh bedroom in 2026, noting pawn structures an...
A Fourth Crown in the Tiebreak's Shadow: Wesley So's Title and the Open Seam in American Chess StructureIt is half past three at night in a bedroom in Mymensingh. A secondhand lapto...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles: How the Chess Training Market Balances Its BooksLast week I sat down in front of a contents page, not a board. Issue 225 of...
Carlsen's Confession at 35: 'Humans Are Not That Good at Chess' — A Complete AnalysisOn 21 October, in an interview with Spain's AS, Magnus Carlsen said that...
Carlsen's Confession: Body Breaking at 35, Yet Still No. 1 — How?Before the first World All-Round Championship in Budapest, in an interview wi...
The Endgame Artisan: A Hamburg Mathematician and the Empty Cupboard of Purana PaltanA used DVD bought in December 2026 from an online seller in Kolkata for 1,150...
9...a5 and the Board Outside the Frame: King's Indian, a DVD, and That Photograph from KazakhstanHook: A Photograph, and a Product Beneath It Two men shake hands in an offici...
King's Indian, Mar del Plata: Where Is the Receipt for the 9...a5 Antidote?A state reception in Kazakhstan occupies the headline. Underneath it, in the...
A Tsaghkadzor Headline, a DVD Body: 9...a5 and the Empty Squares of Chess EconomicsIt was two in the morning in Dublin and I was scrolling a feed when a headlin...
The Real Hidden Highlight: How Chess Analysis Became a Product, and Bangladesh Became Its CustomerOn a January 2026 evening in a bedroom in Mymensingh, a video sat paused on m...
5.e5!: One Pawn, Three Jobs, Three Questions — and Sarana's Unrecorded King WalkThe headline promised a king walk. The column delivered a pawn. The headline...
Five Lines in Sixty Minutes: The Najdorf Refresh and FIDE's Blank ReceiptThe document that arrived in my weekly pipeline refresh this week is not one...
Five Hours Lost, Fifty-Four Moves Back: Gukesh's Escape and India's Ledger of Single-Point DependenceHook The fourth board in the corner of the Samarkand hall drew a slightly...
The Steel Cupboard, Installment 740, and the Unfinished Promise of 5.e5There is a small steel cupboard beside my desk in Khulna. On its upper shelf...
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape, India's Hanging Gold, and the Mirror Bangladesh Never Gets to HoldA secondhand laptop in a Mymensingh bedroom, a relay board on the screen, and...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Body Cost of Chess Training and the Forensics of a Mismatched HeadlineThe wire came from Samarkand. Round 8, women's team event, China ahead on...
A German Win in the Headline, a 60-Minute Course in the Body: A Source-Integrity LedgerA feed item landed in my reader this week. The headline said: "Samarkand R8...
Board Five in Samarkand, and a Bank Statement in ChennaiIn the Samarkand hall, the clock on board five has just crossed five hours. A...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Board, a Father's Gamble, and Savings That Ran Out in Three YearsThe hall in Samarkand is nearly out of time on a Thursday round. Five hours o...
Savitha Shri: A Father's Career Gamble, a Three-Year Savings Ledger, and Seven Wins in SamarkandSamarkand, 2026. On a Thursday night at the Chess Olympiad, after nearly five...