Chess
The Wednesday That Never Closed: An IM, a Ten-Year Show, and Dhaka's Empty Studio2026-10-10In Amsterdam, when Wednesday evening falls, a laptop opens, a chessboard rise...
A Schoolchild's Crown, a DVD's Advertisement: Two Different Chesses Under One Headline2026-10-04Hook — The Page With No Date Last month a printed chess-news page landed on m...
A 60-Minute Gambit, an 11-Year-Old Headline: A Letter Delivered to the Wrong Address in Chess Content Commerce2026-09-29One monsoon afternoon I was sitting on the second floor of the Mymensingh clu...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Mismatched Headline: The Ledger on the Club-Level Black Repertoire Market2026-09-25On the second floor of a Lahore club, at half past nine on the night of April...
Not the King's Indian, but the Keymer System: How Wei Yi Quietly Snuffed Out White's Attack in 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3The Chennai-published video course carried a title advertising the Sämisch...
The Title Says Black, the Description Says White: Auditing a 60 Minutes Repertoire FileThe first thing that greets you when you open the product page is not a move....
Empty Data List, Five Grandmasters: The Ledger of an Empty BoardEmpty Data List, Five Grandmasters: The Ledger of an Empty Board A...
A Benko Gambit Title, a Fritz 20 Advertisement: The Empty Square in Chess Content CommerceHalf past eleven at night in Penang. The balcony light is off, and the laptop...
A Photo in Nicosia, a Borrowed Title, and the Anatomy of a Wrong HeadlineAt midnight, on my balcony in Penang, the laptop's blue light falls across th...
Six Chairs in Budva: The Body Count Nobody Is Keeping Behind a 2715 AverageSix tables, six chairs, twelve clocks in a hotel hall in Budva. On 19 October...
Sixty Minutes of Repertoire and a Headline That Lied: What the Scandinavian Defence Lesson Doesn't SayThe headline made me push my chair back. "From quitting chess to becoming a...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Board I Could Not Find Behind the Atyrau Masters HeadlineI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting — except there was no...
The Scotch Opening: From Kasparov 2026 to ChessBase's '60 Minutes' — The Preparation That Injures the Body, Not the BoardLast week I opened a training video's page and stopped at the first line. The...
The Antidote to the Scotch, 640 Games, and Bangladesh's Missing Sixth GrandmasterIn the Mieses branch of the Scotch, the position that appears after 6.e5 is...
The 5.e5 Receipt: The Modern Attack in the Italian Game, Trap Density, and the Ledger of a Mislabeled FileThe file that reached me carried a title about the strange comforts of...
The Wednesday That Never Closed: An IM, a Ten-Year Show, and Dhaka's Empty StudioIn Amsterdam, when Wednesday evening falls, a laptop opens, a chessboard rise...
Chess Is Not 'Inexpressive'—It Is Invisible: A Ledger for the Spectator DebateAugust 2026. From Dublin, at two in the morning, I was watching an endgame fr...
A Schoolchild's Crown, a DVD's Advertisement: Two Different Chesses Under One HeadlineHook — The Page With No Date Last month a printed chess-news page landed on m...
A 60-Minute Gambit, an 11-Year-Old Headline: A Letter Delivered to the Wrong Address in Chess Content CommerceOne monsoon afternoon I was sitting on the second floor of the Mymensingh clu...
Budapest Gold, Dhaka's Unopened Ledger: What India's First Chess Olympiad Title Actually SaysOn page seventy-one of my notebook I had written a single figure: 9/10. Squar...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Price of an Empty BoardLast Sunday evening the router in my Khulna flat went quiet again — that...
Seven Wins on a Reserve Board — and the Sum Nobody RanThe round in Samarkand ended almost five hours after it began. Two boards of...
The Queen on a5: A Sixty-Minute Promise and Chess's Unpaid LedgerIn April 2026, after four days inside the chess hall at Purana Paltan, I foun...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Mismatched Headline: The Ledger on the Club-Level Black Repertoire MarketOn the second floor of a Lahore club, at half past nine on the night of April...
Seven From Seven and a Three-Year Ledger: The Unbalanced Scoresheet From SamarkandThree results landed on the same screen on a Thursday evening. On board five,...
The London System Is Not Dangerous — Being Unprepared IsIntroduction: The Page That Says 'Magic', the Page That Sells a Black...
The Title Says Black, the Description Says White: Auditing a 60 Minutes Repertoire FileThe first thing that greets you when you open the product page is not a move....
Empty Data List, Five Grandmasters: The Ledger of an Empty BoardEmpty Data List, Five Grandmasters: The Ledger of an Empty Board A...
A Benko Gambit Title, a Fritz 20 Advertisement: The Empty Square in Chess Content CommerceHalf past eleven at night in Penang. The balcony light is off, and the laptop...
A Photo in Nicosia, a Borrowed Title, and the Anatomy of a Wrong HeadlineAt midnight, on my balcony in Penang, the laptop's blue light falls across th...
Six Chairs in Budva: The Body Count Nobody Is Keeping Behind a 2715 AverageSix tables, six chairs, twelve clocks in a hotel hall in Budva. On 19 October...
Sixty Minutes of Repertoire and a Headline That Lied: What the Scandinavian Defence Lesson Doesn't SayThe headline made me push my chair back. "From quitting chess to becoming a...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Board I Could Not Find Behind the Atyrau Masters HeadlineI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting — except there was no...
The Scotch Opening: From Kasparov 2026 to ChessBase's '60 Minutes' — The Preparation That Injures the Body, Not the BoardLast week I opened a training video's page and stopped at the first line. The...
The Antidote to the Scotch, 640 Games, and Bangladesh's Missing Sixth GrandmasterIn the Mieses branch of the Scotch, the position that appears after 6.e5 is...
The 5.e5 Receipt: The Modern Attack in the Italian Game, Trap Density, and the Ledger of a Mislabeled FileThe file that reached me carried a title about the strange comforts of...
The Wednesday That Never Closed: An IM, a Ten-Year Show, and Dhaka's Empty StudioIn Amsterdam, when Wednesday evening falls, a laptop opens, a chessboard rise...
Chess Is Not 'Inexpressive'—It Is Invisible: A Ledger for the Spectator DebateAugust 2026. From Dublin, at two in the morning, I was watching an endgame fr...
A Schoolchild's Crown, a DVD's Advertisement: Two Different Chesses Under One HeadlineHook — The Page With No Date Last month a printed chess-news page landed on m...
A 60-Minute Gambit, an 11-Year-Old Headline: A Letter Delivered to the Wrong Address in Chess Content CommerceOne monsoon afternoon I was sitting on the second floor of the Mymensingh clu...
Budapest Gold, Dhaka's Unopened Ledger: What India's First Chess Olympiad Title Actually SaysOn page seventy-one of my notebook I had written a single figure: 9/10. Squar...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Price of an Empty BoardLast Sunday evening the router in my Khulna flat went quiet again — that...
Seven Wins on a Reserve Board — and the Sum Nobody RanThe round in Samarkand ended almost five hours after it began. Two boards of...
The Queen on a5: A Sixty-Minute Promise and Chess's Unpaid LedgerIn April 2026, after four days inside the chess hall at Purana Paltan, I foun...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Mismatched Headline: The Ledger on the Club-Level Black Repertoire MarketOn the second floor of a Lahore club, at half past nine on the night of April...
Seven From Seven and a Three-Year Ledger: The Unbalanced Scoresheet From SamarkandThree results landed on the same screen on a Thursday evening. On board five,...
The London System Is Not Dangerous — Being Unprepared IsIntroduction: The Page That Says 'Magic', the Page That Sells a Black...