Chess
The Headline Promised a Championship, the Body Sold a Classroom: Two Faces of One Story
Sicilian Brilliancy, the Contributor Funnel and Bangladesh's Ledger: A Tactical Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225
The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Repertoire, and Bodhana's Name Sitting in the Headline
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, the Tempo Debt, and the Arithmetic of an Incomplete Repertoire
Elephant Gambit: The Practical Value and Promotional Limits of an Aggressive Surprise
Elephant Gambit: The Practical Value and Promotional Limits of an Aggressive SurpriseA recent chess-training item has revived discussion around the Elephant Gambi...
Fujairah's Headline, ChessBase's Advertisement: The Hidden Story Behind the World Final of Chess CompositionI first saw the name Fujairah in an old folder, where some letters from the U...
Serious Inconsistency in a Chess Training Video Review Leaves the Product's Identity in DoubtA published analytical review of a chess training product has been found to...
The Ledger That Outlives the Clock: Bangladesh's Chess, Five Grandmasters and One Empty BoardThe ceiling fan in that Purana Paltan hall was turning, but the room was not...
Giri–Abdusattorov in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: How the 1.d4 Sideline Market Turns Analysis Into AdvertisingBefore opening the link I had already budgeted the time. The site that...
Turlov Is Not the FIDE President: Nicosia, FRITZ 20, and the Ledger of Chess MediaAt 2:40 a.m. on my Bangalore desk I opened a page with one task: match a name...
The Dortmund 2027 Headline, the Scandinavian BodyI opened a listing page last week, past eleven at night, after coming back fr...
The Ledger of the Silent Board: Data Absence and the Politics of Zero in Chess CoverageIn the inner circles of international chess journalism, a peculiar tradition...
The Headline Promised a Championship, the Body Sold a Classroom: Two Faces of One StorySeven moves on the board, and one name — the Colle System. White's pawn has...
A German Magazine's English Edition and Saint Louis's $400,000: Who Is Doing Chess's Expansion Math?Last December, in the small room of a Mymensingh academy, I kept re-checking ...
Bent Larsen in the Headline, Nowhere in the Text: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Economics of Chess ContentLast week, a little past two in the morning, on the balcony of my Saint...
The Metadata War: 60 Minutes of Najdorf in the Shadow of FIDE General Assembly 2026On my kitchen table in Saint Petersburg, the laptop is open. Since the 2026...