Chess
Svitlana's Smart Moves: An Olympiad Hook and a Marketed King's Indian Defense Antidote
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating': What Budapest Announced, and What It Left Blank
The Market Value of the Elephant Gambit: Existentialism of the 'Short & Sweet' Weapon in Chess's Neuro-War
From Tsaghkadzor to the Grand Final, and Move Nine 9...a5: An Editorial Heart Attack in Chess Media
Chigorin on the Cover, Italian 5.e5! Inside: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Repertoire ProductI opened the product page and read the title first: the Chigorin Defence. Tha...
Two Colours in One File: The Arithmetic of Buying a Chess RepertoireAt two in the morning I propped the laptop screen a little higher so the...
One Review, Two Openings: Identity Crisis and the Evidence Gap Around a 60-Minute Chigorin FileIntroduction: When the Title and the Body Point in Different Directions In th...
Empty Squares, Empty Ledger: The Seventeen Unplayed Years of Bangladeshi ChessAt two in the morning I open the file on the Dublin desk. At the top, one...
The Verification Crisis in Chess Reporting: When the Analysis StopsA sports report stopped on its way to publication. Not because a tournament w...
The Silent Failure: When Sports-News Analysis Stalls at Zero Information PointsWhen a sports-news analysis system fails, it rarely makes noise. No server...
Chess in a New Era: From the Throne to the Software — The Full Picture of a Changing GameChess was once a game of silent reading rooms — wooden pieces, mechanical...
Svitlana's Smart Moves: An Olympiad Hook and a Marketed King's Indian Defense AntidoteAt a time when chess training material is dominated by engine-driven theory, ...
Capablanca's 2026, the King's Indian 9...a5, and the Unproven Claims of an Unsigned DVDA courier reached my Khulna flat with no date on the wrapping. Inside: a jewe...
Prison Chess: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and Not One Move on the RecordOn 13 May 2026 the first continental championship for prisoners opened. It...
Najdorf on the Cover, Elephant Inside: Where the 60-Minute 'Secret Weapon' Market Is WeakestThe headline promises the sharpest branch of the Sicilian — the Najdorf, and...
The Budva Six Boards: A 2715 Wall and the Silence Beneath 108 TeamsThe Budva Six Boards: A 2715 Wall and the Silence Beneath 108 Teams The carpe...
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating': What Budapest Announced, and What It Left BlankThe monsoon over Khulna was coming down like stitches that afternoon, and I w...
The Market Value of the Elephant Gambit: Existentialism of the 'Short & Sweet' Weapon in Chess's Neuro-WarLate evening in a ground-floor room in Mymensingh. On the laptop screen, Andr...
The US Crown in the Shadow of the Elephant Gambit: The Course-Ad Back Alley Hidden Behind a HeadlineOne move. The game's second move. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, Black's pawn suddenly...