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A Headline That Sells Keymer, a Lesson That Teaches the Scotch2026-09-29It was half past midnight in a bedroom in Mymensingh. The lid of a second-han...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: Five Hours on the Reserve Board, a Father's Savings, and an Incomplete Sample2026-09-26When Savitha Shri's seventh win landed on the scoresheet, the clock had run...
The Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Shadow of Magnus Carlsen's Name2026-09-26Last month, at a club tournament in Purana Paltan, I stood beside a board...
Round Eight in Samarkand, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Quiet Mismatch of a Headline2026-09-26Late on a Tuesday night in my Bangalore flat, two cups on the table, one clos...
The Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Open Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense2026-09-25The FIDE World Cup was running in Tbilisi in September 2026 — a 128-player...
A Crown in Tsaghkadzor and 9...a5 Below the Fold: Auditing a Mismatch2026-10-04Hook The page arrived like an index. The headline said European Schools Chess...
ChessA Crown in Tsaghkadzor and 9...a5 Below the Fold: Auditing a MismatchHook The page arrived like an index. The headline said European Schools Chess...
ChessSaint Louis or Prague: Auditing the Headline-Content Gap in ChessBase Magazine #225I opened the file looking for a date. The headline promised October 8, Saint...
Chess9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, or Old Theory in New Packaging?9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, or Old Theory in New Packaging? Ho...
ChessA Headline That Sells Keymer, a Lesson That Teaches the ScotchIt was half past midnight in a bedroom in Mymensingh. The lid of a second-han...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: India's First Gold and Two Histories in One LedgerIn 2026, the press club in Purana Paltan, Dhaka, hummed with one name: Niaz...
ChessThe World Champion on Board Four: India's Silver, Bronze and the Story Nobody Filed in SamarkandRound eleven. In the Samarkand hall the loudest sound is the clock. Tick, tic...
ChessTwo 2–2s in Samarkand: Three Years of Depth, and the Two Crowns Buried in the HeadlineIn the playing hall in Samarkand, before the final round began, two teams fro...
ChessA 60-Minute Najdorf File and a Dateless Headline: Where Chess's Information Chain BreaksTwo in the morning in Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop sits in the corner of a...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7: Five Hours on the Reserve Board, a Father's Savings, and an Incomplete SampleWhen Savitha Shri's seventh win landed on the scoresheet, the clock had run...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Shelf: ChessBase Magazine #225 and One Metadata CollapseSee English version of the article covering ChessBase Magazine #225, the Ches...
ChessSword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense and the Ledger of an Unreceipted ClaimIn front of me sits a thirteen-point promotional text. One of those thirteen...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Shadow of Magnus Carlsen's NameLast month, at a club tournament in Purana Paltan, I stood beside a board...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Annotations, a Samarkand Headline, and the Gap in the Chess Content MarketOne document, two realities. The top line reads: Samarkand, Round 8, women’s...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and the Price of Proof in the Chess MarketLast winter I was sitting beside a fifteen-year-old's board on the second flo...
ChessRound Eight in Samarkand, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Quiet Mismatch of a HeadlineLate on a Tuesday night in my Bangalore flat, two cups on the table, one clos...
ChessSamarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: One Empty Square in the Ledger of Chess NewsI opened a file at two in the morning in my Saint Petersburg flat. The headli...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings: How a Counting Error Exposed the Training Market's BooksA link arrived last week. The headline read: "Chess is something magic" — an...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Open Ledger of the Scandinavian DefenseThe FIDE World Cup was running in Tbilisi in September 2026 — a 128-player...
ChessSaint Louis or Prague: Auditing the Headline-Content Gap in ChessBase Magazine #225I opened the file looking for a date. The headline promised October 8, Saint...
Chess9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, or Old Theory in New Packaging?9...a5: An Antidote to the Bayonet Attack, or Old Theory in New Packaging? Ho...
ChessA Headline That Sells Keymer, a Lesson That Teaches the ScotchIt was half past midnight in a bedroom in Mymensingh. The lid of a second-han...
ChessChess Olympiad 2026: India's First Gold and Two Histories in One LedgerIn 2026, the press club in Purana Paltan, Dhaka, hummed with one name: Niaz...
ChessThe World Champion on Board Four: India's Silver, Bronze and the Story Nobody Filed in SamarkandRound eleven. In the Samarkand hall the loudest sound is the clock. Tick, tic...
ChessTwo 2–2s in Samarkand: Three Years of Depth, and the Two Crowns Buried in the HeadlineIn the playing hall in Samarkand, before the final round began, two teams fro...
ChessA 60-Minute Najdorf File and a Dateless Headline: Where Chess's Information Chain BreaksTwo in the morning in Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop sits in the corner of a...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7: Five Hours on the Reserve Board, a Father's Savings, and an Incomplete SampleWhen Savitha Shri's seventh win landed on the scoresheet, the clock had run...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Shelf: ChessBase Magazine #225 and One Metadata CollapseSee English version of the article covering ChessBase Magazine #225, the Ches...
ChessSword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense and the Ledger of an Unreceipted ClaimIn front of me sits a thirteen-point promotional text. One of those thirteen...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Shadow of Magnus Carlsen's NameLast month, at a club tournament in Purana Paltan, I stood beside a board...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Annotations, a Samarkand Headline, and the Gap in the Chess Content MarketOne document, two realities. The top line reads: Samarkand, Round 8, women’s...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and the Price of Proof in the Chess MarketLast winter I was sitting beside a fifteen-year-old's board on the second flo...
ChessRound Eight in Samarkand, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Quiet Mismatch of a HeadlineLate on a Tuesday night in my Bangalore flat, two cups on the table, one clos...
ChessSamarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: One Empty Square in the Ledger of Chess NewsI opened a file at two in the morning in my Saint Petersburg flat. The headli...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings: How a Counting Error Exposed the Training Market's BooksA link arrived last week. The headline read: "Chess is something magic" — an...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Open Ledger of the Scandinavian DefenseThe FIDE World Cup was running in Tbilisi in September 2026 — a 128-player...