Chess
Four Formats, One Pair of Eyes: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Uncounted Load of Chess Training
Atyrau Masters and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Upset With No Scoreboard
One Norm, Three Norms, and Ten Years of Wednesdays: The Ledger Nobody Keeps Beside Merijn van Delft's Name
Behind India's 3.5–0.5: The Lower Boards Are Winning, the Top Boards Are Stalling
Savitha Shri: The Arithmetic of Seven Wins, and a Family's Three-Year Ledger
Samarkand's Round Eight, a Sixty-Minute Video, and One Empty Board
ChessSix Rounds in Selangor: 6/6 Is a Number, Not a ProofThe results sheet reached my screen around eleven at night. Six rounds, six...
ChessThe Empty Folder in the Steel Cupboard: Bangladesh Chess's Seventeen-Year Silence Without a LedgerLast February I walked into the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana...
ChessChess Analytics and the Data-Integrity Trap: When a Report Contains No Facts At AllChess is a sport where every move can be measured, every result converts into...
ChessChigorin on the Cover, Italian Inside: A Labelling Crisis in the Chess Instruction MarketFor fourteen straight nights in 2026 I commentated Leonine Chess Club's onlin...
ChessFour Formats, One Pair of Eyes: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Uncounted Load of Chess TrainingI counted the packaging before I counted the games. The 225th issue of...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says AnotherThe headline arrived in the feed: “From quitting chess to becoming a...
ChessAtyrau Masters and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Upset With No ScoreboardTwo top seeds were defeated at the Atyrau Masters. In the opening pages of...
ChessOne Norm, Three Norms, and Ten Years of Wednesdays: The Ledger Nobody Keeps Beside Merijn van Delft's NameEvery Wednesday evening a camera switches on in a room in Amsterdam. The boar...
ChessThe Power of Avoiding Theory: What a Model Game Proves, and What It Doesn'tThe first move was not on the board—it was in the video's title. The episode ...
Chess3.Bc4, Eleven Years and a Mismatched Headline: What the Samarkand Board RevealsThe clock ticks in the cold light of the Samarkand tournament hall. From my...
ChessWhere 'Nepo's Dragon Problem' Isn't: The Headline-Content Gap in the Chess Opening-Course MarketAfter 1.d4 d5, when the opponent quietly declines 2.c4 and steers into 2.Nf3,...
ChessOlympiad Underdogs Headline, Board Reality Differs: 5.e5! Revolution or Ledger-Less Claim?Last Tuesday, looking toward the BCF hall in Purana Paltan, I opened my 2026...
ChessFrom a Paris Folder to Budapest Gold: India's First Chess Olympiad Crown and a Country's Empty ShelfWalking out of the Budapest playing hall, what rang in my ears was the sound ...
ChessBehind India's 3.5–0.5: The Lower Boards Are Winning, the Top Boards Are StallingWhen 3.5–0.5 flashed up from the Samarkand match hall, the tournament desk ha...
ChessSword of Damocles or a Shield of Marketing: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Defense CourseLast December, at table three of the Mymensingh District Chess Club, a move...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense: A Two-Tempo Ledger, an Unverified Carlsen Claim, and the Club Player's Open LedgerLast week, at 11:40 p.m. in my Mumbai flat, I pressed play on a promotional...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7: The Arithmetic of the Reserve Board, a Father's Career Gamble, and Chess's Real CostSamarkand, Thursday's round. Almost five hours on the clock. On one board the...
ChessThe Empty Folder in the Steel Cupboard: Bangladesh Chess's Seventeen-Year Silence Without a LedgerLast February I walked into the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana...
ChessChess Analytics and the Data-Integrity Trap: When a Report Contains No Facts At AllChess is a sport where every move can be measured, every result converts into...
ChessChigorin on the Cover, Italian Inside: A Labelling Crisis in the Chess Instruction MarketFor fourteen straight nights in 2026 I commentated Leonine Chess Club's onlin...
ChessFour Formats, One Pair of Eyes: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Uncounted Load of Chess TrainingI counted the packaging before I counted the games. The 225th issue of...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says AnotherThe headline arrived in the feed: “From quitting chess to becoming a...
ChessAtyrau Masters and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Upset With No ScoreboardTwo top seeds were defeated at the Atyrau Masters. In the opening pages of...
ChessOne Norm, Three Norms, and Ten Years of Wednesdays: The Ledger Nobody Keeps Beside Merijn van Delft's NameEvery Wednesday evening a camera switches on in a room in Amsterdam. The boar...
ChessThe Power of Avoiding Theory: What a Model Game Proves, and What It Doesn'tThe first move was not on the board—it was in the video's title. The episode ...
Chess3.Bc4, Eleven Years and a Mismatched Headline: What the Samarkand Board RevealsThe clock ticks in the cold light of the Samarkand tournament hall. From my...
ChessWhere 'Nepo's Dragon Problem' Isn't: The Headline-Content Gap in the Chess Opening-Course MarketAfter 1.d4 d5, when the opponent quietly declines 2.c4 and steers into 2.Nf3,...
ChessOlympiad Underdogs Headline, Board Reality Differs: 5.e5! Revolution or Ledger-Less Claim?Last Tuesday, looking toward the BCF hall in Purana Paltan, I opened my 2026...
ChessFrom a Paris Folder to Budapest Gold: India's First Chess Olympiad Crown and a Country's Empty ShelfWalking out of the Budapest playing hall, what rang in my ears was the sound ...
ChessBehind India's 3.5–0.5: The Lower Boards Are Winning, the Top Boards Are StallingWhen 3.5–0.5 flashed up from the Samarkand match hall, the tournament desk ha...
ChessSword of Damocles or a Shield of Marketing: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Defense CourseLast December, at table three of the Mymensingh District Chess Club, a move...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense: A Two-Tempo Ledger, an Unverified Carlsen Claim, and the Club Player's Open LedgerLast week, at 11:40 p.m. in my Mumbai flat, I pressed play on a promotional...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7: The Arithmetic of the Reserve Board, a Father's Career Gamble, and Chess's Real CostSamarkand, Thursday's round. Almost five hours on the clock. On one board the...