Chess
Petroff in the Title, Scandinavian in the Blurb: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Opening Course
The Wednesday Board: Merijn van Delft and the Invisible Infrastructure of Chess
Pressure on the Ninety-First Square: The Returning 'ChessMom' and a New Antidote Against the Bayonet in the King's Indian Defense
Budapest's Golden Board, Dhaka's Empty Chair: How India's First Chess Olympiad Title Turned Into Bangladesh's Mirror
Round 9 in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape, and the Cracks in India's Depth
When the Label and the Contents Disagree: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Arithmetic of the Training Market
Petroff in the Title, Scandinavian in the Blurb: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Opening CourseI opened the page around eleven at night. The reason was simple: a reader in...
A Headline About Five Straight Titles, an Advertisement for Six Videos — and the Record That Isn't ThereThat evening in the Rangpur club room passed with my notebook open beside me....
The 2715 of Budva: A 115-Point Gap in Club Chess, and the Receipt Nobody KeptTwenty-five teams stand on 2/2 after two rounds of the 108-team open Swiss at...
The Chess Instruction Market and the Elephant Gambit: The Gap Between Seller's Marketing and Board RealityTwenty-seven dollars. One hour of video. An opening whose name still makes mo...
A Cunning Pawn Beside the Bayonet: 9...a5 in the King's Indian and the Politics of Preparation Asymmetry"Computers often do not know how to handle these complex strategic positions....
The Title Says Superstition, the Board Says 5.e5: Auditing an Opening GuideOn Wednesday night at my Mumbai desk I opened the file and did not read a gam...
The Catalog Grows, the Pipeline Doesn't: Kavutskiy's Two Training Courses and an Old LedgerThe 2 A.M. Page, and a Familiar Pattern It is two in the morning in Dublin. B...
The Wednesday Board: Merijn van Delft and the Invisible Infrastructure of ChessA Wednesday evening in a Mymensingh bedroom is not a box on a calendar; it is...
3.Bc4 Was the Hook, Seven Games Were the Ledger: Bodhana's 2504 at SamarkandThe interview's headline contained a move. Against the Sicilian Defence, 3.Bc...
The Folder No One Opened: Bangladesh's First Grandmaster and the Arithmetic of a Lost GenerationJuly 2026. The Russia World Cup had swallowed every screen in the Delhi hoste...
A Headline About Five Straight Titles, an Advertisement for Six Videos — and the Record That Isn't ThereThat evening in the Rangpur club room passed with my notebook open beside me....
The 2715 of Budva: A 115-Point Gap in Club Chess, and the Receipt Nobody KeptTwenty-five teams stand on 2/2 after two rounds of the 108-team open Swiss at...
The Chess Instruction Market and the Elephant Gambit: The Gap Between Seller's Marketing and Board RealityTwenty-seven dollars. One hour of video. An opening whose name still makes mo...
A Cunning Pawn Beside the Bayonet: 9...a5 in the King's Indian and the Politics of Preparation Asymmetry"Computers often do not know how to handle these complex strategic positions....
The Title Says Superstition, the Board Says 5.e5: Auditing an Opening GuideOn Wednesday night at my Mumbai desk I opened the file and did not read a gam...
The Catalog Grows, the Pipeline Doesn't: Kavutskiy's Two Training Courses and an Old LedgerThe 2 A.M. Page, and a Familiar Pattern It is two in the morning in Dublin. B...
The Wednesday Board: Merijn van Delft and the Invisible Infrastructure of ChessA Wednesday evening in a Mymensingh bedroom is not a box on a calendar; it is...
3.Bc4 Was the Hook, Seven Games Were the Ledger: Bodhana's 2504 at SamarkandThe interview's headline contained a move. Against the Sicilian Defence, 3.Bc...
The Folder No One Opened: Bangladesh's First Grandmaster and the Arithmetic of a Lost GenerationJuly 2026. The Russia World Cup had swallowed every screen in the Delhi hoste...