Chess
Larsen's Name on the Cover, No Larsen Inside: ChessBase Magazine 225 and the Chess-Content Economy
A Tsaghkadzor Crown, a King's Indian Advertisement: The Two Bodies of One Chess Article
One Move, Three Questions: Sarana's Walking King and the Memory Tax on Club Players
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: India's Gold Dream Hangs on a Single Clock
The Folder That Had No Samarkand: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Factory of a Wrong Label
The Title Says Sämisch, the Moves Say Keymer System: What Cannot Be Verified in Wei Yi's Model GameThe title advertised the Sämisch Variation of the King's Indian Defence. Two...
The Land of the First Grandmaster Still Waits for a Second Generation: Bangladesh Chess's Decisive MovesIn 2026, when Viswanathan Anand became a grandmaster in Delhi, exactly one ye...
Fujairah to host WFCC Grand Prix Final — but the body of the report is a product pitchA report carried by an international chess outlet announces in its headline...
A Product That Cannot Name Itself: The Chigorin Defence Label Hiding an Italian 5.e5 Center AttackThe chess training market is a strange market. Here, product quality is...
The List That Returns Empty: Bangladesh's Chess Archive, Extraction Failure, and the Dataset of SilenceLast week I opened the log of a two-stage data pipeline. Stage one succeeded:...
ChessBase's New FritzTrainer Author Kostya Kavutskiy: Lessons in Calculation and Positional Play as an Invisible Chess EconomyHook: It's Not the Number, It's the Silence Sitting in a chess club in Purana...
Heartbeats in Paltan: From Ziaur Rahman's Death to the First-Grandmaster Paradox — A Physiological Autopsy of Bangladeshi Chess InjuriesOn 5 July 2026, afternoon turning to evening. A league match in Dhaka, the...
Larsen's Name on the Cover, No Larsen Inside: ChessBase Magazine 225 and the Chess-Content EconomyLate last week, at two in the morning in my Purana Paltan flat, the...
A Tsaghkadzor Crown, a King's Indian Advertisement: The Two Bodies of One Chess ArticleI open the file and find two separate documents stitched into one. At the top...
Turlov's Quote, Lilov's Videos: A Ledger of One Headline Mismatch in the Chess-Education MarketLast week a chess-instructional product page landed on my desk. The headline,...
One Move, Three Questions: Sarana's Walking King and the Memory Tax on Club PlayersI found the first grandmaster in a folder no one had opened in years. Inside...
Five. e5: The Olympiad Headline, the Empty Scoresheet, and a Coffee RingIn the first week of November 2026, at 11:45 pm, my 2026 laptop was warming m...
Samarkand, Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape, and the Weight of a Gold Race Loaded on One ShoulderIn the Samarkand hall the clock had gone past five hours. D Gukesh sat agains...
The 54-Move Ledger: Gukesh Escapes, but India's Gold Arithmetic Still Runs Through Someone Else's ScoresheetThe wall clock in the Samarkand playing hall had gone past five hours and my...
In Search of a King Walk: The Steel Cupboard and Sarana's Missing Move ListLast week I put the printed page down on the balcony table in Khulna. The...
Modern Italian 5.e5: The Line That Wins at the Club Board, Not in the Engine RoomOn the fifth move, White's pawn stepped from e4 to e5 and the knight sitting ...
The Samarkand Receipt: A 54-Move Escape and India's Single-Point LedgerRound nine. At a table in Samarkand, D Gukesh sat for more than five hours in...
The 5.e5 Ledger: Sarana's King Walk, Sveshnikov's Imprint, and the Club Player MythThe headline said a king went for a walk. The body sold an opening...