Chess
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: One DVD, One Mismatched Headline, and the Empty Square in Chess Coverage
New Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri Lilov's 'The Right King Road' Course
Samarkand's Silent Round Six: Yom Kippur, Consent-Based Scheduling and the Structural Gap in the Chess Olympiad
An Autopsy of the Scotch: A Phantom Headline and the Commercial Cycle of Opening Theory
Losing +2 With 30 Minutes Left: Why Nihal Sarin's Collapse Is a Chess-Injury Case Study
ChessChess Olympiad: India-Uzbekistan Clash Swings on Nihal Sarin's +2 Collapse and Captain's 'Process' MessageContext: A single Chess Olympiad match where India faced Uzbekistan — a team...
ChessHussain Besou Among the Bavarian Championship Leaders, but the Evidence Remains LimitedA short chess report can open the door to oversized expectations. The central...
ChessChess Report: Xiong vs Liang — An Incomplete Sharp AnalysisA chess report titled ‘Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang’ naturally leads...
ChessThe New Benko Gambit Course Versus Fritz 20: The Chess Truth Hidden Behind a Marketing CurtainLast week, at 2 a.m. in my Dublin flat, I opened a product page on my screen....
ChessThe Country of the Empty Folder: Bangladesh's Chess Problem Is a Patron Drought, Not a Talent DroughtI opened a folder and found a country's silence. No ledger of sponsorship, no...
ChessThe Asymmetry of Preparation: Jacobson's Closed Sicilian on the Uzbek BoardHook When g2-g3 landed on the board, it was not the clock hand that moved...
ChessKing's Indian 9...a5: An Opening Repertoire Hidden Beneath a State HeadlineLast night, on the second floor of a house in Mymensingh, the first headline ...
ChessA Tsaghkadzor Headline, a Mymensingh Screen: The King's Indian DVD and the Market for Chess InformationLast night, on a secondhand laptop in my room in Mymensingh, a headline...
Chess9...a5: An Antidote Built for Human Hands, and a Headline That Never Met Its StoryOn a rain-wet night in Penang I sat with the black pieces under the blue ligh...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet: One DVD, One Mismatched Headline, and the Empty Square in Chess CoverageThe night on the chess desk split into two halves. One tab carried a headline...
ChessNot Hidden Highlights but a Hidden Ledger: The Sicilian Brilliancy, ChessBase 225, and the Rooms We Never FilmedHook — The Ring That Never Dries On my balcony in Khulna I am staring at a...
ChessSamarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead, and an Advertisement Filling the Lower Half of the ScreenIt was near dawn in a bedroom in Mymensingh. Outside the window, mist was...
ChessSamarkand Round 7: An Advertisement Beneath the Headline, and the Arithmetic of a Single Match PointStart with a number. Start with a story and the reader moves on momentum; a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an Unfinished NNUE-Era ClaimSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an...
ChessSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point Apart — and a Report With No Player NamedThe headline is clean. Samarkand, women's section, Round 7, China versus...
ChessNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri Lilov's 'The Right King Road' CourseNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri...
ChessSamarkand's Eight-Way Tie and ChessBase Magazine #225: An Audit of the ReceiptThe headline arrived first; the table never followed it. After four rounds at...
ChessSavitha Shri's 5/5 and the Depth Below the Top Boards: What India's Women's Team Is Really Built OnForty-seven moves, and the round-six game was over. On board four an...
ChessSamarkand's Silent Round Six: Yom Kippur, Consent-Based Scheduling and the Structural Gap in the Chess OlympiadHook: The Board Where No Move Was Played September 21, 2026, a Monday. Round...
ChessAn Autopsy of the Scotch: A Phantom Headline and the Commercial Cycle of Opening TheoryIn the 2026 World Championship, Garry Kasparov chose an opening that had long...
ChessLosing +2 With 30 Minutes Left: Why Nihal Sarin's Collapse Is a Chess-Injury Case StudyThree moves. Thirty minutes still on the clock, and a position roughly two...
ChessA World Champion on Board Four: How India's 5/5 Should Be ReadBefore I opened the Round Five scoresheet last Sunday, I stopped at the lineu...
ChessSixty Minutes Against the Scotch, and a Phantom Name: The Open Window of the Opening IndustryTwo in the morning, a bedroom in Mymensingh. Two windows open on my desk: a...
ChessHussain Besou Among the Bavarian Championship Leaders, but the Evidence Remains LimitedA short chess report can open the door to oversized expectations. The central...
ChessChess Report: Xiong vs Liang — An Incomplete Sharp AnalysisA chess report titled ‘Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang’ naturally leads...
ChessThe New Benko Gambit Course Versus Fritz 20: The Chess Truth Hidden Behind a Marketing CurtainLast week, at 2 a.m. in my Dublin flat, I opened a product page on my screen....
ChessThe Country of the Empty Folder: Bangladesh's Chess Problem Is a Patron Drought, Not a Talent DroughtI opened a folder and found a country's silence. No ledger of sponsorship, no...
ChessThe Asymmetry of Preparation: Jacobson's Closed Sicilian on the Uzbek BoardHook When g2-g3 landed on the board, it was not the clock hand that moved...
ChessKing's Indian 9...a5: An Opening Repertoire Hidden Beneath a State HeadlineLast night, on the second floor of a house in Mymensingh, the first headline ...
ChessA Tsaghkadzor Headline, a Mymensingh Screen: The King's Indian DVD and the Market for Chess InformationLast night, on a secondhand laptop in my room in Mymensingh, a headline...
Chess9...a5: An Antidote Built for Human Hands, and a Headline That Never Met Its StoryOn a rain-wet night in Penang I sat with the black pieces under the blue ligh...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet: One DVD, One Mismatched Headline, and the Empty Square in Chess CoverageThe night on the chess desk split into two halves. One tab carried a headline...
ChessNot Hidden Highlights but a Hidden Ledger: The Sicilian Brilliancy, ChessBase 225, and the Rooms We Never FilmedHook — The Ring That Never Dries On my balcony in Khulna I am staring at a...
ChessSamarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead, and an Advertisement Filling the Lower Half of the ScreenIt was near dawn in a bedroom in Mymensingh. Outside the window, mist was...
ChessSamarkand Round 7: An Advertisement Beneath the Headline, and the Arithmetic of a Single Match PointStart with a number. Start with a story and the reader moves on momentum; a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an Unfinished NNUE-Era ClaimSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an...
ChessSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point Apart — and a Report With No Player NamedThe headline is clean. Samarkand, women's section, Round 7, China versus...
ChessNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri Lilov's 'The Right King Road' CourseNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri...
ChessSamarkand's Eight-Way Tie and ChessBase Magazine #225: An Audit of the ReceiptThe headline arrived first; the table never followed it. After four rounds at...
ChessSavitha Shri's 5/5 and the Depth Below the Top Boards: What India's Women's Team Is Really Built OnForty-seven moves, and the round-six game was over. On board four an...
ChessSamarkand's Silent Round Six: Yom Kippur, Consent-Based Scheduling and the Structural Gap in the Chess OlympiadHook: The Board Where No Move Was Played September 21, 2026, a Monday. Round...
ChessAn Autopsy of the Scotch: A Phantom Headline and the Commercial Cycle of Opening TheoryIn the 2026 World Championship, Garry Kasparov chose an opening that had long...
ChessLosing +2 With 30 Minutes Left: Why Nihal Sarin's Collapse Is a Chess-Injury Case StudyThree moves. Thirty minutes still on the clock, and a position roughly two...
ChessA World Champion on Board Four: How India's 5/5 Should Be ReadBefore I opened the Round Five scoresheet last Sunday, I stopped at the lineu...
ChessSixty Minutes Against the Scotch, and a Phantom Name: The Open Window of the Opening IndustryTwo in the morning, a bedroom in Mymensingh. Two windows open on my desk: a...