Chess
Ding Liren's Double Triumph or Quarterfinal Exit? The Structural Confusion Inside the Hong Kong World Team Rapid and BlitzAt the Hong Kong World Team Rapid and Blitz Championships, Dragon Chilling wo...
The Template Rendered, the Fields Went Empty: Why Bangladesh Chess Stopped at Five GrandmastersA record was open on my screen. The title field read “N/A”, the summary field...
9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet, a DVD, and a Stale SentenceAt the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi in 2026, Bangladesh's open team played 4...
The Headline Says Neiksans, the File Says Martin: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian ScoresheetThe file was supposed to be an interview with Arturs Neiksans — quitting ches...
Dortmund 2027: Sixty Minutes Hidden Inside a HeadlineThe folder was labelled ‘Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027’. Nobody had opened ...
The Endgame Classroom: Karsten Müller and the Quiet Economics of Chess InstructionLast January, around two in the morning, I was watching an old Bundesliga...
One Result and Seventeen Advertisements: The Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225In the first round of the US Championship, Awonder Liang beat Hans Niemann. T...
The Human Answer in the King's Indian: 9...a5 and the Memory of the BoardWhen I watched Niaz Murshed's hand hovering over the board at Dhaka's Purana...
Chess Is Not Inexpressive, It Is Unwritten — What an 11-Lakh Budget, an Empty Stadium and a 17-Year Wait Say About Who Really Loses the AudienceI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In September 2026,...
A Course Under the Name of Vlastimil Hort 2026: Black's Real Question in the Chess Avoidance MarketThe headline reads: Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026, a return to Hotel Don...
Not the Dragon but the d4 Sidelines: Valeri Lilov's Six-Video Ledger and the Prep GapIt was nearly two in the morning in Dublin. Dhaka runs five hours ahead of me...
9...a5: The 'Antidote' to the Bayonet Attack and the Hidden Injury of the Repertoire MarketI have a long-standing habit: before I read the moves, I read the body. In...
From Paris to Budapest: A Hundred-Year Ledger and India's First Chess Olympiad GoldIn 2026 an attempt was made to bring chess inside the Olympic family at the...
A Seven-Game Sample: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and One Family's Three-Year BudgetA Seven-Game Sample: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and One Family's Three-Year Budget On...
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...

