Chess
Board Geometry and Budget Arithmetic: How One Opening Line Manufactures False Confidence at Club Level
International Chess: The Rise of a Professional Sport on 64 Squares
9...a5: In Chess the Product Being Sold Is Insurance, Not an Antidote
The Headline Says Bent Larsen; the Contents Do Not: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Economics of a Vanished Name
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and the Hidden Ledger From Game to Product
A Wrong President, a Real Advertisement: Auditing One Piece of Chess Media
When the Knight on the Rim Brings the Win: A Practical Counter-Path for Club-Level Anti-Mainstream PlayersEleven-thirty at night, on a Penang balcony, a knight had just slid from b1 t...
No Scoresheet, No Story: A Missing File in Bangladesh's Chess RecordNo Scoresheet, No Story: A Missing File in Bangladesh's Chess Record Last...
Board Geometry and Budget Arithmetic: How One Opening Line Manufactures False Confidence at Club LevelThe title carries Bodhana Sivanandan's name; the body carries thirteen...
Silent Board, Roaring Stadium: Chess in the Age of Modern Sports JournalismIntroduction: The Story the Eye Cannot See Chess is a game whose biggest...
The Four-System Trap: How London, Colle, Torre and Trompowsky Catch Black UnpreparedWhen I opened the file 'Game of the Week #746' on my secondhand laptop in a...
What Empty Squares Say: An Evidence Theory of Absence in Chess ReportingA report landed on my desk and the only field that had anything in it was two...
Sämisch on the Label, Keymer on the Board: Wei Yi's Eighth Round and the Diagnostic Error Inside a Coaching ProductI watch chess videos the way a doctor reads a chart: title first, pulse of th...
International Chess: The Rise of a Professional Sport on 64 SquaresChess today is no longer a pastime played over a board. It is a fully...
The Blank Field Says It All: Record-Keeping and the Crisis in Bangladesh ChessA document arrived at my desk with every field blank. No title, no source, no...
9...a5: In Chess the Product Being Sold Is Insurance, Not an AntidoteOn the back of the box, four words do the selling: ‘sound positions, very few...
The Headline Says Bent Larsen; the Contents Do Not: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Economics of a Vanished NameFourteen information points. I read them once, then started again from the to...
Heartbeats in Paltan: Cardiovascular Risk at the Chessboard and the Federation's SilenceI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than any tackl...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: The Politics of a Sideline, the DVD Market, and an Olympiad Headline That Doesn't MatchThe clock on board three showed one hour twelve minutes for White and one hou...
Four Stars in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: The Silent Information Injury on a Chess Advertising PageLast week a chess news page stopped me at its headline: Clutch Chess in Saint...
Forty Squares, Eleven Level Teams: The European Club Cup Match That Hasn't Happened YetKhulna, 20 October 2026, eleven at night. The third-round standings of the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and the Hidden Ledger From Game to ProductI opened the September release page and the first thing I did was not chess...
A Wrong President, a Real Advertisement: Auditing One Piece of Chess MediaThe laptop is open on the kitchen table in St Petersburg. That morning a...
The 115 Points of Budva: Where Budget Becomes Average Rating in Club ChessTwenty-five teams sit on 2/2 after two rounds. In a 108-team open Swiss, that...
The 2715 Trap in Budva: Where the European Club Cup Favourite Is Really TestedThe hall in Budva was close to two in the morning when I scrolled the 108-tea...
The Market for 5.e5: An Easy Opening Line, a Mismatched Headline, and the Price a Club Player PaysThe rapid at the Purana Paltan hall was small: thirty-two players, the kind o...
The Echo of a Broken Cupboard: The Chess Knowledge Market and Our Unseen AlmanacIn a dusty corner of our magazine's old archive stood a steel cupboard. When...
When the Analysis Comes Back Empty: The Invisible Gap in Chess DataAt three in the morning in my Mymensingh room, I opened the secondhand laptop...
A Headline Without a Body: Atyrau Masters, ChessBase Magazine #225, and the Invisible SeedsA two-line announcement under a download link: “Atyrau Masters: Top two seeds...
The Null Report from Paltan: Why Bangladeshi Chess Cannot Even Keep Its Own DataEight analytical pillars, one federation, and the same single sentence...
The Endgame Artisan: Karsten Müller and Chess's Silent ClassroomThe Endgame Artisan: Karsten Müller and Chess's Silent Classroom A rented roo...
A Dispute That Never Happened: The 60-Minute Elephant Gambit and the Broken Map of Chess ContentIt was nearly three-thirty in the morning. In a bedroom in Mymensingh the...
The Endgame Professor: Karsten Müller's Tablebase Mind and Bangladesh's Empty Halls27...Kh8. When Karsten Müller explains a quiet move like that in the endgame,...
The 5.e5 Ledger: An Accounting of the Italian Game's Trap LineI was sitting on the second floor of the federation hall in Purana Paltan las...