Chess
The Ledger of a Match: Wei Yi's Quiet Craft Against the Keymer System
The Scandinavian Defense and a FIDE Headline Mismatch: The Physiology of a 60-Minute Promise
No Moves on the Board, a Result in the Headline: Six Chess Videos Behind a US Championship Story
The Carlsen Claim Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, a Tempo Deficit, and One Unverified Entry
Fifteen and Co-Leading Bavaria: Hussain Besou's Result Is Smaller Than the HeadlineWhen a fifteen-year-old's name appeared on the top board after the fifth roun...
The Ledger of a Match: Wei Yi's Quiet Craft Against the Keymer SystemRound eight of the Olympiad. A team match, board after board, days of...
No Article, Yet an Article: How Chess Sneaks Into a Cricket-Led Platform's Data SpecificationLast week a Stage-1 data pipeline output landed on my desk. On paper it was a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Economics of an Opening UpdateSixty minutes. Five line clusters. One download. In ChessBase’s Power Play 18...
European Club Cup 2026: The 2715 Average, the Economics of Club Chess, and the Quiet Number 22/108Start with a single figure held on a laptop screen in a bedroom in Mymensingh...
The US Championships Headline Trap: Elephant Gambit, a Junior's Win, and the Course-Sales LedgerI opened the wire copy in the morning and my eye caught a punctuation mark...
The Scandinavian Defense and a FIDE Headline Mismatch: The Physiology of a 60-Minute PromiseLast March, scrolling through a chess-instruction page, I stopped at the...
No Moves on the Board, a Result in the Headline: Six Chess Videos Behind a US Championship StoryThe headline stops the pen. “US Championships: So and Liang remain perfect,...
From Dusk till Dawn: The Quiet Confession of ChessBase Magazine #225 in the Chess-Training MarketI begin with a number, because a number is a more honest witness than praise...
What Gets Sold in Bent Larsen's Name: The Shadow Economy of Chess PublishingAt three in the morning, in a Mymensingh bedroom, a headline surfaced on my...
The King's Indian 9...a5: One Headline, One DVD, and Three Claims Still Awaiting VerificationFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. One night...
Six Videos, a Misattributed Quote and the Club-Level Battle: Inside the Economics of Chess EducationOn a January evening, in a club room in Delhi, I stood beside a board where...
ChessMom returns: Supporting mothers on and off the boardChessMom returns: A title about mothers, a DVD about opening theory The...
The File Arrived, but Samarkand Wasn't in ItLate at night, a file landed on my second-hand laptop in a Mymensingh bedroom...
The Carlsen Claim Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, a Tempo Deficit, and One Unverified EntryWednesday evening, Mumbai. A thirteen-point promotional blurb landed on my...
The Headline Was Samarkand, the Board Was Scandinavian: A Tactical Autopsy of a Mismatched FeedIt was twelve minutes past two in the morning in Dublin. I was scrolling a fe...
The Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Course and a Country's Empty Board1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5. In three moves the black queen has moved twice...
Seven Wins From the Reserve Board: The Ledger and the Emotion in Savitha Shri's StoryFive hours. Same Thursday round at the Samarkand Olympiad, two different...
Seven Boards, One Emptied Savings Account: Samarkand's 7/7 and the Funding Ledger of Indian ChessThat session in Samarkand ran nearly five hours. In the same round two Indian...
‘Sword of Damocles’: The 60-Minute Promise of the Scandinavian Defense — and the Fine Print the Ad Won’t Show YouFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned that the stadium is only a screen. In...