Chess
Original Chess Article Missing: Evidence Required Before Producing an Original Report
Giri–Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Ledger That Does Not Add Up in the 1.d4 d5 Complex
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating': Three Time Controls on the Board, Zero Definition on Paper
Budva in the Headline, Elephant Gambit in the Body: How Much Load Can a Sixty-Minute Repertoire Actually Carry
The Elephant Gambit Market: A Chess Theory Romance and Its Invoice
Original Chess Article Missing: Evidence Required Before Producing an Original ReportThe supplied analysis does not identify a specific chess match, player,...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Repertoire, 2...d5, and a Headline Without a SignatureThe headline carried one name — Loek van Wely. The file inside carried anothe...
European Club Cup: Bayegan's 2715 Average and the 115-Point GapWhen the clock on board six stopped in the Budva hall, the scoreboard showed ...
The Quiet Arithmetic of Samarkand: Board Four, the Tiebreak, and Uzbekistan's Second CrownThe broadcast camera did not capture what happened in the hall before the...
Giri–Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Ledger That Does Not Add Up in the 1.d4 d5 ComplexLast week I opened a piece titled “Giri vs Abdusattorov, Game of the Week...
Not the Opponent but the Idea: The Carlsen Preparation Shift That Never Made the HeadlineOn 21 October a Spanish sports daily, AS, published an interview with Magnus...
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating': Three Time Controls on the Board, Zero Definition on PaperBudapest, 10–21 November 2026 — twelve days, three time controls, four names....
Budva in the Headline, Elephant Gambit in the Body: How Much Load Can a Sixty-Minute Repertoire Actually CarryThe page headline announced that the European Club Cup was kicking off in...
The Elephant Gambit Market: A Chess Theory Romance and Its InvoiceSixty minutes. The product page promised that within those sixty minutes, Bla...
Is Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? A Badminton Star's Claim vs. a Ledger of 1,240 GamesLast week a comment surfaced on my timeline. A badminton star—now working as ...
Bent Larsen in the Headline, Absent in the Content: Inside the Paid Model of Chess PublishingIt was 7:30 in the evening in Delhi, the monsoon had arrived outside the...
A FIDE Congress in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: How Chess Opening Knowledge Became a Subscription ShopLast night in my Mymensingh bedroom, scrolling a feed under the blue light of...
The Ninth-Move Bayonet: 9...a5, the King's Indian, and the Gap Between a Headline and Its BodyI first wrote the ninth move down in a rough notebook in Batumi, in pencil...
9...a5: The Move That Isn't Memorized — A King's Indian Sideline and the Economics of Preparation in South AsiaThe envelope is white and wide, with no picture on it. February 2026, Delhi....
The Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: King's Indian 9...a5, the Bayonet Attack and the ChessMom MismatchLast month I spent an evening at a small chess cafe in Bangalore, where seven...
45.Rd1: The Move That Rewrote the Gold Arithmetic — India vs China in Samarkand, and the Same Question in Dhaka's LedgerHook — the human fact first, the replay after In the hall in Samarkand the...