Chess
Samarkand in the Headline, a Bayonet in the Body: Nobody Opens the Ledger of Chess Memory
Blockchain Technology: A Revolutionary Change Direction in Bangladesh's Digital Economy
One Board, Two Points: Why India Still Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After Losing to Uzbekistan
Twenty-Five Years in the Shadow of the Scotch: A Defense Video, Zero Data, and the Wrong Samarkand Headline
9...a5: The Bayonet Attack's 'Antidote' or a Question the Database Never Answered?
Seven Openings, Six Videos: Where the Black-Side Arithmetic Against 1.d4 Stops Adding Up
Samarkand in the Headline, a Bayonet in the Body: Nobody Opens the Ledger of Chess MemoryA link landed on my desk last week. The headline was polished, poured into th...
9...a5: The Bayonet Attack's 'Antidote' or a Question the Database Never Answered?HOOK — In February 2026 I typed "9...a5" into a database search box from a de...
Blockchain Technology: A Revolutionary Change Direction in Bangladesh's Digital EconomyFrom a Mymensingh apartment, watching Bitcoin's live price graph on a laptop...
Seven Openings, Six Videos: Where the Black-Side Arithmetic Against 1.d4 Stops Adding UpOn a club evening in Delhi last month I sat watching the board next to mine....
One Board, Two Points: Why India Still Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After Losing to UzbekistanThirty Minutes Left, +2 in Hand, and Three Moves The clock still showed thirt...
India's Dominance at Chess Olympiad: Praggnanandhaa's Win, Gukesh's Silent Strength and the High-Stakes Round-6 Clash with UzbekistanWhen selecting a badminton shot, I often wonder what the difference is betwee...
Twenty-Five Years in the Shadow of the Scotch: A Defense Video, Zero Data, and the Wrong Samarkand HeadlineA folded date sits in my 2026 notebook — 5 July. That afternoon, in a Dhaka...
25 Years of the Scotch: Mikhalchishin's Antidote, Fischer's Ghost, and a Title CrisisThree decades of covering chess have taught me one thing: the inconsistencies...
The Pulse of Board Four: Savitha Shri and the Depth Test Facing India's Women's TeamI read the round six scoresheet backwards. Top two boards: draw, draw. Bottom...
Five Out of Five, Still a Ledger: India's Chess Olympiad Women Are Leaning on the Lower Boards, and the Stress Test Has Already BegunRound six. Board four. Savitha Shri's clock ticking alongside Rose Atwell's....
Not a Scotch Revival but a Coaching-Brand Market: Mikhalchishin's Video, Kasparov's 2026 and the Lessons of a Headline MismatchTwo different stories sit inside one news file. The headline reads, "Samarkan...