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Capablanca in the Headline, King's Indian Inside: A Data Audit of a Sales Claim2026-10-26The first thing I did after opening the file was count. The headline said...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: Auditing One Chess Story2026-09-26At 2:07 a.m. a wire headline surfaced on my laptop in Mumbai: “Samarkand, Rou...
The Fifth Name: A 7/7 That Rose From the Last Line of the Team Sheet2026-09-26On the Samarkand team sheet there are five names. The first four generate the...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a Mismatch2026-09-26The clock on my desk in Dublin read 2:11 a.m. I was scrolling the online ches...
One 60-Minute Video, Two Different Openings: The Information Gap in the Chess Education MarketAround half past one in the morning I was reading a course listing, and I dre...
Analysis of Chess Desk Report Stalls: Empty Data Structure Blocks Stage TwoThe analysis pipeline for a chess-domain news report has stalled at its very...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: How a Sideline Got Marketed as an AntidoteThe headline reads ‘King’s Indian Attack at the Olympiad’. Count the eleven...
Capablanca in the Headline, King's Indian Inside: A Data Audit of a Sales ClaimThe first thing I did after opening the file was count. The headline said...
FIDE President in the Headline, an Engine Ad in the Body: A Ledger of Chess Media's Broken ArithmeticIt was 2:17 in the morning in Penang. Salt in the balcony air, cold tea on th...
European Club Cup 2026: Budget, Board Order, and a New All-Star Squad on the Budva CoastIn the hotel lobby on the Budva coast the chess clocks ticked up together, an...
9...a5: The Move That Doesn't Fool the Engine, It Fools Your Opponent's PreparationHook White played b4 on move nine, and Black's clock already showed...
Empty Files, 640 Games: Why Bangladesh's Sixth Grandmaster Never Left the LedgerThe Room Had Games. It Had No Ledger. In December 2026 I sat in the small sid...
A Record in the Headline, a Receipt for the Course: Sixty Minutes of Elephant Gambit and a Claim About an Eleven-Year-OldI opened a file. The headline says: youngest-ever WGM at eleven. Inside the...
A Samarkand Round-8 Headline With a 60-Minute Opening Course in the BodyLast Wednesday morning a line surfaced in my feed. The headline read:...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Halo, and the Arithmetic of Board LoadThe timer on the screen stopped at 59 minutes and 48 seconds. One opening...
The ‘Sword of Damocles’ of the Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course, a Magnus Carlsen Name, and the Nuances Left Out of the Ledger“I began tagging goals, and the goals began to sort themselves.” Tagging all...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: Auditing One Chess StoryAt 2:07 a.m. a wire headline surfaced on my laptop in Mumbai: “Samarkand, Rou...
The Fifth Name: A 7/7 That Rose From the Last Line of the Team SheetOn the Samarkand team sheet there are five names. The first four generate the...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Package: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Ledger of ChessPenang, half past eleven at night. The balcony smelled of coming rain, and th...
Seven Out of Seven: Savitha Shri's Board, and a Ten-Year Budget That Ran Out in ThreeThe scoreboard says seven. Seven games were played — a hundred percent. A...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a MismatchThe clock on my desk in Dublin read 2:11 a.m. I was scrolling the online ches...
A Sixty-Minute Defense: Carlsen's Name on the Cover, and the Gap in the LedgerSixty minutes. One video, one opening, and one sentence — "Magnus Carlsen has...
Seven Openings, Six Videos: The Anti-Queen's Gambit Economy at Club Level and the Hidden Trap in Defensive RepertoiresIn my Mymensingh bedroom, tagging games from the 2026 National Championship,...
Analysis of Chess Desk Report Stalls: Empty Data Structure Blocks Stage TwoThe analysis pipeline for a chess-domain news report has stalled at its very...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: How a Sideline Got Marketed as an AntidoteThe headline reads ‘King’s Indian Attack at the Olympiad’. Count the eleven...
Capablanca in the Headline, King's Indian Inside: A Data Audit of a Sales ClaimThe first thing I did after opening the file was count. The headline said...
FIDE President in the Headline, an Engine Ad in the Body: A Ledger of Chess Media's Broken ArithmeticIt was 2:17 in the morning in Penang. Salt in the balcony air, cold tea on th...
European Club Cup 2026: Budget, Board Order, and a New All-Star Squad on the Budva CoastIn the hotel lobby on the Budva coast the chess clocks ticked up together, an...
9...a5: The Move That Doesn't Fool the Engine, It Fools Your Opponent's PreparationHook White played b4 on move nine, and Black's clock already showed...
Empty Files, 640 Games: Why Bangladesh's Sixth Grandmaster Never Left the LedgerThe Room Had Games. It Had No Ledger. In December 2026 I sat in the small sid...
A Record in the Headline, a Receipt for the Course: Sixty Minutes of Elephant Gambit and a Claim About an Eleven-Year-OldI opened a file. The headline says: youngest-ever WGM at eleven. Inside the...
A Samarkand Round-8 Headline With a 60-Minute Opening Course in the BodyLast Wednesday morning a line surfaced in my feed. The headline read:...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Halo, and the Arithmetic of Board LoadThe timer on the screen stopped at 59 minutes and 48 seconds. One opening...
The ‘Sword of Damocles’ of the Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course, a Magnus Carlsen Name, and the Nuances Left Out of the Ledger“I began tagging goals, and the goals began to sort themselves.” Tagging all...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: Auditing One Chess StoryAt 2:07 a.m. a wire headline surfaced on my laptop in Mumbai: “Samarkand, Rou...
The Fifth Name: A 7/7 That Rose From the Last Line of the Team SheetOn the Samarkand team sheet there are five names. The first four generate the...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Package: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Ledger of ChessPenang, half past eleven at night. The balcony smelled of coming rain, and th...
Seven Out of Seven: Savitha Shri's Board, and a Ten-Year Budget That Ran Out in ThreeThe scoreboard says seven. Seven games were played — a hundred percent. A...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a MismatchThe clock on my desk in Dublin read 2:11 a.m. I was scrolling the online ches...
A Sixty-Minute Defense: Carlsen's Name on the Cover, and the Gap in the LedgerSixty minutes. One video, one opening, and one sentence — "Magnus Carlsen has...
Seven Openings, Six Videos: The Anti-Queen's Gambit Economy at Club Level and the Hidden Trap in Defensive RepertoiresIn my Mymensingh bedroom, tagging games from the 2026 National Championship,...