Chess
No Chess Story Without the Record: Missing Matches, Players and Sources
Board Five in Samarkand: What 7/7 Doesn't Prove, and What Three Years of Savings Does
The Empty Square in Mar del Plata: What the 9...a5 Commercial Antidote Cannot Prove
The Ledger Beneath the Board: Bangladesh's Unfinished Chess Pipeline and the Money That Isn't There
Fujairah to host WFCC Grand Prix Final, yet the report names not a single competitor
Chigorin or Italian? A 60-Minute Video Review Exposes a Fundamental Contradiction
ChessNo Chess Story Without the Record: Missing Matches, Players and SourcesThe analysis file has eight separate sections. Its first page, however, names...
ChessThe Empty Square in Mar del Plata: What the 9...a5 Commercial Antidote Cannot ProveIn the 212 pages of that Batumi notebook, one leaf unfolds to reveal 23...
ChessThe Ledger Beneath the Board: Bangladesh's Unfinished Chess Pipeline and the Money That Isn't ThereThe chess hall in Purana Paltan had stopped mid-game long before anyone...
ChessFujairah to host WFCC Grand Prix Final, yet the report names not a single competitorA report published on ChessBase states that Fujairah, in the United Arab...
ChessChigorin or Italian? A 60-Minute Video Review Exposes a Fundamental ContradictionThe digital market for chess instruction is crowded enough that a new video...
ChessA Sentence That Passed Through Three Hands: Carlsen's Human-Limit Line and the Rooms We Left EmptyOctober 21, Madrid. An interview was running. The sentences went to a Spanish...
ChessHeartbeats in Paltan: Why Bangladesh Chess Remains a Cardiac Patient Thirty-Seven Years After Its First GrandmasterHook 5 July 2026, a league match at Purana Paltan, Dhaka. The clock inches...
ChessThe 5.e5 Trap and the Headline Gap: An Opening Line That Works on Club Boards, Not in DatabasesAt a club tournament last December I watched a move that is not new, but...
ChessWednesday Evening Chess: Merijn van Delft, Ten Years of Broadcast Load, and an Unfinished Grandmaster ChaseOn Wednesday evenings a small camera light turns red in a room in Amsterdam. ...
ChessThe System-Opening Trap: Six Videos, One Mismatched Quote, and the Quiet Market of Chess Education“Chess is massively undervalued.” The line is short, confident, and pinned to...
ChessSilver, Bronze and a 2/10: The Ledger of the Samarkand OlympiadSilver, Bronze and a 2/10: The Ledger of the Samarkand Olympiad Eleven rounds...
ChessThe File Said Samarkand, the Folder Grew Prague: A Training Product's Ledger and Bangladesh's Five GrandmastersLast week I was digging through a 2026 folder on my laptop. One filename...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Sixty Minutes in the Body: When Chess's Information Ledger Fails to Match ItselfTwo in the morning. Two lines sit side by side on the screen, and I forget to...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague File: How the Chess Training Economy Slips Past UsThree in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom: a secondhand laptop on the...
ChessThe Sword Hangs Over the Wrong Head: The Scandinavian Defense, a Sixty-Minute Promise, and the Empty RoomA Saturday in December 2026, seven in the evening. The Leonine Chess Club roo...
ChessSavitha Shri: A Father's Gamble, Seven Boards, and a Ledger That Ran Out in Three YearsThe clock at the Samarkand table had bent toward five hours. What sat on the...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: The Defence You Cannot Buy in Sixty MinutesHook On the screen, a still image: a black queen sliding from d5 to a5 inside...
ChessSamarkand's Night, Purana Paltan's Cupboard: When the Headline and the Body Play Two Different GamesThe steel cupboard is still shut. That was 2026 — the inner hall of the Puran...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 and Her Father's Three-Year Savings: The Arithmetic Inside an Olympiad Hero StoryThe Thursday round in Samarkand ran close to five hours. Two different things...
ChessThe Metadata Gap: A Samarkand Headline, a ChessBase #225 BodyIt was nearly two in the morning. I opened the file and the headline caught m...
ChessThe Folder Said Samarkand; Inside Was a Sales PageIn August 2026, in a hostel room in Delhi, I opened a folder labelled...
ChessBoard Five in Samarkand: What 7/7 Doesn't Prove, and What Three Years of Savings DoesThe clock in the Samarkand hall had crossed five hours. Late in Thursday's...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Ledger of a Nation's Chess DreamsOn my desk in Khulna, next to the 2026 laptop, I still keep a photograph of t...
ChessThe Empty Square in Mar del Plata: What the 9...a5 Commercial Antidote Cannot ProveIn the 212 pages of that Batumi notebook, one leaf unfolds to reveal 23...
ChessThe Ledger Beneath the Board: Bangladesh's Unfinished Chess Pipeline and the Money That Isn't ThereThe chess hall in Purana Paltan had stopped mid-game long before anyone...
ChessFujairah to host WFCC Grand Prix Final, yet the report names not a single competitorA report published on ChessBase states that Fujairah, in the United Arab...
ChessChigorin or Italian? A 60-Minute Video Review Exposes a Fundamental ContradictionThe digital market for chess instruction is crowded enough that a new video...
ChessA Sentence That Passed Through Three Hands: Carlsen's Human-Limit Line and the Rooms We Left EmptyOctober 21, Madrid. An interview was running. The sentences went to a Spanish...
ChessHeartbeats in Paltan: Why Bangladesh Chess Remains a Cardiac Patient Thirty-Seven Years After Its First GrandmasterHook 5 July 2026, a league match at Purana Paltan, Dhaka. The clock inches...
ChessThe 5.e5 Trap and the Headline Gap: An Opening Line That Works on Club Boards, Not in DatabasesAt a club tournament last December I watched a move that is not new, but...
ChessWednesday Evening Chess: Merijn van Delft, Ten Years of Broadcast Load, and an Unfinished Grandmaster ChaseOn Wednesday evenings a small camera light turns red in a room in Amsterdam. ...
ChessThe System-Opening Trap: Six Videos, One Mismatched Quote, and the Quiet Market of Chess Education“Chess is massively undervalued.” The line is short, confident, and pinned to...
ChessSilver, Bronze and a 2/10: The Ledger of the Samarkand OlympiadSilver, Bronze and a 2/10: The Ledger of the Samarkand Olympiad Eleven rounds...
ChessThe File Said Samarkand, the Folder Grew Prague: A Training Product's Ledger and Bangladesh's Five GrandmastersLast week I was digging through a 2026 folder on my laptop. One filename...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Sixty Minutes in the Body: When Chess's Information Ledger Fails to Match ItselfTwo in the morning. Two lines sit side by side on the screen, and I forget to...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague File: How the Chess Training Economy Slips Past UsThree in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom: a secondhand laptop on the...
ChessThe Sword Hangs Over the Wrong Head: The Scandinavian Defense, a Sixty-Minute Promise, and the Empty RoomA Saturday in December 2026, seven in the evening. The Leonine Chess Club roo...
ChessSavitha Shri: A Father's Gamble, Seven Boards, and a Ledger That Ran Out in Three YearsThe clock at the Samarkand table had bent toward five hours. What sat on the...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: The Defence You Cannot Buy in Sixty MinutesHook On the screen, a still image: a black queen sliding from d5 to a5 inside...
ChessSamarkand's Night, Purana Paltan's Cupboard: When the Headline and the Body Play Two Different GamesThe steel cupboard is still shut. That was 2026 — the inner hall of the Puran...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 and Her Father's Three-Year Savings: The Arithmetic Inside an Olympiad Hero StoryThe Thursday round in Samarkand ran close to five hours. Two different things...
ChessThe Metadata Gap: A Samarkand Headline, a ChessBase #225 BodyIt was nearly two in the morning. I opened the file and the headline caught m...
ChessThe Folder Said Samarkand; Inside Was a Sales PageIn August 2026, in a hostel room in Delhi, I opened a folder labelled...
ChessBoard Five in Samarkand: What 7/7 Doesn't Prove, and What Three Years of Savings DoesThe clock in the Samarkand hall had crossed five hours. Late in Thursday's...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Ledger of a Nation's Chess DreamsOn my desk in Khulna, next to the 2026 laptop, I still keep a photograph of t...