Chess
Three Names, One Board: Wei Yi's Olympiad Lesson
From Paltan Heartbeats to Olympiad Boards: The Medical Logic of Chess Injuries and Comebacks
A St. Louis Headline, a Bulgarian Video: The Ledger of the Anti-1.d4 Market
The Model-Game Trap: Closed Sicilian g2-g3, a Title Mismatch, and the Limits of One Miniature
The Chess-Content Ledger: Issue 225, a Missing Name, and Bangladesh's Missing Figure
The Evidence Gap in Chess Analysis: Why Source Verification Must Come First
The Evidence Gap in Chess Analysis: Why Source Verification Must Come FirstThe most important discovery in a professional chess analysis can sometimes b...
Bodhana Sivanandan Makes WGM History at 11, but an Elephant Gambit Promotion Hides Behind the Headline: Questions Over Chess JournalismA World Record in the Headline, an Unrelated Opening in the Article When a...
Beyond Equality with the Petroff Defence? A 60-Minute Chess Course Raises Questions About Accuracy and Practical ValueA 60-minute chess video can provide a useful introduction to an opening....
Carlsen's Confession: Human Limits and a New Preparation Architecture in the AI EraIn the tired lights of the Budapest event hall, when a 35-year-old chess play...
Four Stars in Saint Louis, Six Lilov Videos, and the Gap Between Headline and BodyThe headline announces Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Javokhir Sindarov an...
Three Names, One Board: Wei Yi's Olympiad LessonRound 8 of the team event. Every board matters for the team's half-point...
From Paltan Heartbeats to Olympiad Boards: The Medical Logic of Chess Injuries and ComebacksOn 5 July 2026, a club league match in Dhaka. Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman,...
Najdorf on the Label, Elephant on the Board: Inside the Sixty-Minute Secret-Weapon TradeHook In my Mymensingh bedroom, on the screen of a second-hand laptop, the vid...
108 Teams, One 2715: Budva's Paper Favourite and the Board-Level RealityOn the results board in Budva, two rounds in, the loudest thing is not a...
Carlsen's Interview, Two Translations, and a Blank Balance Sheet: The Numbers Nobody Asked For Before BudapestOctober 21. Spain's AS newspaper ran an interview. Within days Marca had pick...
Vahap Sanal, the NATO Championship and Daniel King's Najdorf: A Ledger of Headline and BodyThe call came from Dhaka at three in the morning. The club organiser whose...
Budva 2026: The 2,715 Average Is a Budget Line, Not a Preparation Signal19 October 2026. In Budva's playing hall the sixth-board clock had barely...
Before Budapest, a 'Unified Rating' Announcement: A Headline Without RulesThe release dated August 29, 2026 contains numbers in exactly four places:...
What Is Being Sold Under the Name of the Benko Gambit: The Empty Square Inside a Review PageLast week, at half past eleven at night, I opened a page for exactly one...
An Atyrau Upset on the Cover, a Training Catalogue Inside: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225The first thing that catches the eye in issue 225 of ChessBase Magazine is no...
A St. Louis Headline, a Bulgarian Video: The Ledger of the Anti-1.d4 MarketA headline came out of the St. Louis round-robin: So and Liang remain perfect...
The Model-Game Trap: Closed Sicilian g2-g3, a Title Mismatch, and the Limits of One MiniatureWhen I watched the new episode of Robert Ris' "Fast and Furious," it was the...