Chess
Zero Information Points Is Not Zero Risk: Reading a Silent Failure in the Chess Ledger
Deep Investigation into Chess Opening Products: Libiszewski's Chigorin Defence and the Italian 5.e5! Identity Crisis
Eleven Teams Level, and the Conditional Promise of Board One
The Quiet Market of Sixty-Four Squares: The Chess That Is Undervalued Isn't on the Board — It's on the Payroll
The Fifth Chair in Samarkand: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Bill Nobody Counts
Zero Information Points Is Not Zero Risk: Reading a Silent Failure in the Chess LedgerLast night, at two in the morning by the Dublin clock — seven in the morning ...
World Amateur Chess Championships 2026: Aqil Maintains Perfect 6/6, Tulegenov Reclaims Sole Lead in Open U2300Six Rounds, Two Distinct Leadership Stories A perfect score in one section, a...
The 60-Minute Chess Opening Promise: Petroff or Scandinavian, Which Repertoire Is Actually Being Sold?A 60-Minute Promise, but a Question Before the First Move In chess, sometimes...
Five Against Eighty: The Ledger of Bangladesh's Chess PipelineAt forty-seven, on an evening in 2026, during the Premier Division Chess Leag...
Deep Investigation into Chess Opening Products: Libiszewski's Chigorin Defence and the Italian 5.e5! Identity CrisisIntroduction: One Product, Two Openings, One Unusual Confusion In the...
Eleven Teams Level, and the Conditional Promise of Board OneI wrote the number down before the board-order sheet reached me: eleven. Afte...
One Hour of Scandinavian, and the Promise the Headline Never KeptMymensingh, Wednesday, half past nine at night. Class over, boards packed awa...
A Headline from Atyrau, a Ledger in Dhaka: The Missing Game in Chess's Content EconomyA Headline from Atyrau, a Ledger in Dhaka: The Missing Game in Chess's Conten...
Bundesliga 2026/87: How One Late Start Rewrote Relegation in Seven StepsThere is a column in my ledger I never wanted to fill: 'administrative steps'...
The Promise of 9...a5, the Silence of the Database: Two Documents and One Gap Around the Mar del Plata BayonetTwo documents landed in my inbox the same day, and both in the same order:...
From Dusk till Dawn: The Chess Training Economy Behind Issue 225Twenty-seven miniatures, ten opening articles, three opening videos, five nam...
Bent Larsen on the Cover, Larsen Nowhere Inside: The Gap in ChessBase Magazine #225I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. ChessBase has release...
The Quiet Market of Sixty-Four Squares: The Chess That Is Undervalued Isn't on the Board — It's on the PayrollA headline, six videos beneath it, and a gap in between. The headline says...
The King Walks, the Board Keeps Books: Sarana's 'Hidden Moment' and the Uneven Price of One LineA king walks. In chess language the phrase sounds romantic, but anyone who...
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: India's Gold Chase Now Rests on One Pair of ShouldersIt was nearly two in the morning in Delhi, the coffee long cold, the laptop...
ChessBase #225, Prague 2026 and the Metadata Mismatch: A System Reading of the Chess Training EconomySamarkand in the Title, Prague in the File The line read: China lead with 15/...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian — Where Preparation Ends and Marketing BeginsLast month, at a Delhi club evening, I was not counting pieces—I was counting...
Scandinavian Defense: The Promise, Overstatement and Market Reality of the ‘Sword of Damocles’ CourseAn hour-long video course, three selling points, and a name — Sword of...
The Fifth Chair in Samarkand: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Bill Nobody CountsThe fifth chair in Samarkand is the one you learn to recognise. Four boards s...
A Samarkand Headline and a Scandinavian Course: Auditing One Feed FileI opened the feed item at 07:12 Moscow time. The headline announced a result:...
World Amateur Chess Championships 2026: Aqil Maintains Perfect 6/6, Tulegenov Reclaims Sole Lead in Open U2300Six Rounds, Two Distinct Leadership Stories A perfect score in one section, a...
The 60-Minute Chess Opening Promise: Petroff or Scandinavian, Which Repertoire Is Actually Being Sold?A 60-Minute Promise, but a Question Before the First Move In chess, sometimes...
Five Against Eighty: The Ledger of Bangladesh's Chess PipelineAt forty-seven, on an evening in 2026, during the Premier Division Chess Leag...
Deep Investigation into Chess Opening Products: Libiszewski's Chigorin Defence and the Italian 5.e5! Identity CrisisIntroduction: One Product, Two Openings, One Unusual Confusion In the...
Eleven Teams Level, and the Conditional Promise of Board OneI wrote the number down before the board-order sheet reached me: eleven. Afte...
One Hour of Scandinavian, and the Promise the Headline Never KeptMymensingh, Wednesday, half past nine at night. Class over, boards packed awa...
A Headline from Atyrau, a Ledger in Dhaka: The Missing Game in Chess's Content EconomyA Headline from Atyrau, a Ledger in Dhaka: The Missing Game in Chess's Conten...
Bundesliga 2026/87: How One Late Start Rewrote Relegation in Seven StepsThere is a column in my ledger I never wanted to fill: 'administrative steps'...
The Promise of 9...a5, the Silence of the Database: Two Documents and One Gap Around the Mar del Plata BayonetTwo documents landed in my inbox the same day, and both in the same order:...
From Dusk till Dawn: The Chess Training Economy Behind Issue 225Twenty-seven miniatures, ten opening articles, three opening videos, five nam...
Bent Larsen on the Cover, Larsen Nowhere Inside: The Gap in ChessBase Magazine #225I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. ChessBase has release...
The Quiet Market of Sixty-Four Squares: The Chess That Is Undervalued Isn't on the Board — It's on the PayrollA headline, six videos beneath it, and a gap in between. The headline says...
The King Walks, the Board Keeps Books: Sarana's 'Hidden Moment' and the Uneven Price of One LineA king walks. In chess language the phrase sounds romantic, but anyone who...
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: India's Gold Chase Now Rests on One Pair of ShouldersIt was nearly two in the morning in Delhi, the coffee long cold, the laptop...
ChessBase #225, Prague 2026 and the Metadata Mismatch: A System Reading of the Chess Training EconomySamarkand in the Title, Prague in the File The line read: China lead with 15/...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian — Where Preparation Ends and Marketing BeginsLast month, at a Delhi club evening, I was not counting pieces—I was counting...
Scandinavian Defense: The Promise, Overstatement and Market Reality of the ‘Sword of Damocles’ CourseAn hour-long video course, three selling points, and a name — Sword of...
The Fifth Chair in Samarkand: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Bill Nobody CountsThe fifth chair in Samarkand is the one you learn to recognise. Four boards s...
A Samarkand Headline and a Scandinavian Course: Auditing One Feed FileI opened the feed item at 07:12 Moscow time. The headline announced a result:...