Chess
In the Name of Attack, the Board Shows Defense: Svitlana's Smart Moves and the Olympiad Marketing Hook
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Weapon or a 60-Minute Trap?
Kavutskiy's FritzTrainer debut: A new chapter in calculation and positional play
Samarkand's Last Day: 18 Match Points, 28.5 Board Points — and Gold Settled by a Tiebreak
A Samarkand Result, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Gap Between Them
Chess Analysis Lacks Evidence: No Conclusions Possible Without the Original ReportThe most important finding in the supplied chess-analysis document is neither...
Chess Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Missing Players, Tournaments and Results Expose a Data Extraction FailureA Chessboard Without a Record of Moves When an analyst sits down to review a...
The Hidden Injury Inside the File System: A Medical Autopsy of a Chess Prep ProductNot three months—three weeks. Sitting in that Paltan hall, I timed how quickl...
Chigorin Defence or Italian Game? A Chess Opening Course Caught Between Contradiction and Unverifiable ClaimsA newly circulated deep analysis of a chess opening-preparation product has...
In the Name of Attack, the Board Shows Defense: Svitlana's Smart Moves and the Olympiad Marketing HookThe title stopped me first. 'King's Indian Attack at the Olympiad' suggests...
Shogdzhiev in the Headline, Rachael Li in the Body: The Arithmetic That Does Not Close in the St. Louis FileOctober 23, 2026. The final round has ended in St. Louis, and at a Mumbai des...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: Clutch Chess in the Headline, Lilov's Course in the BodyAt half past eleven last week I opened a chess news page and read the headlin...
Two Champions, Zero Scores: How a European Club Cup Headline Became a Magazine Price TagThe headline read like this: Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are the 2026...
The Five-Hour Days Are Over: Carlsen's Preparation Shift and a Quote That Crossed Three LanguagesThe first thing I did at two in the morning in my Bangalore flat was not...
Standing at the Edge of the Chessboard: The Nine-Move Opening DVD and the Accountant's Silence of the Engine EraMy father's chessboard still sits in the corner of the house, its wooden...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Weapon or a 60-Minute Trap?I laid the board out from the first move, and the pattern had been waiting. T...
Kavutskiy's FritzTrainer debut: A new chapter in calculation and positional playChessBase's FritzTrainer series has a new name: Kostya Kavutskiy. The...
One Norm, Five Hundred Wednesdays: The Unfinished Ledger of Merijn van DelftWednesday evening, nine o'clock sharp. In a small room in Amsterdam a camera...
A Tournament in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: The Vlastimil Hort 2026 Course Market and the Physical Price of Theory Inflation"Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026: Return to Hotel Don Giovanni." The headline...
Not the FIDE General Assembly, but a 60-Minute Najdorf: How One Mislabeled Headline Opened the Door to Chess EconomicsOn a September evening in my Delhi flat, the headline on the screen looked...
Lilov's Six Videos and Turlov's Quote: Where the Ledger Refused to BalanceLast week I sat down with a promotional piece, and the first thing I did was...
Bodhana Sivanandan's Record, or an Elephant Gambit Promotion? A Data Audit of a Headline-Body MismatchLast week I sat before a chess-news feed — carrying 45 years of data-journali...
Samarkand's Last Day: 18 Match Points, 28.5 Board Points — and Gold Settled by a TiebreakThe final round's scoresheet read 2-2. Board one drew, board two won, board...
A Samarkand Result, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Gap Between ThemSamarkand, Round 8. Before the board, the headline: Germany stunned Uzbekista...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Claims of a Scandinavian Defense Course and the Arithmetic of the BoardHook: One Board, Seven Games, Three Swords. The advertisement is a single lin...
Broken Chain: The Headline, the Missing Samarkand, and the Ledger of TrainingLast year I opened a PDF booklet on a balcony in Penang. Beside me lay a smal...
Samarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: An Audit of a Mismatched Chess FileThe headline was bright: Samarkand, Round 8 — Germany stun Uzbekistan and joi...
Samarkand Round 8, a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian, and Bangladesh's Five GrandmastersHook: A headline selling one event, a body selling another Samarkand, Round 8...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Course in the Body: An Audit of Thirteen Information PointsSamarkand in the Headline, a Course in the Body: An Audit of Thirteen...
Chess Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Missing Players, Tournaments and Results Expose a Data Extraction FailureA Chessboard Without a Record of Moves When an analyst sits down to review a...
The Hidden Injury Inside the File System: A Medical Autopsy of a Chess Prep ProductNot three months—three weeks. Sitting in that Paltan hall, I timed how quickl...
Chigorin Defence or Italian Game? A Chess Opening Course Caught Between Contradiction and Unverifiable ClaimsA newly circulated deep analysis of a chess opening-preparation product has...
In the Name of Attack, the Board Shows Defense: Svitlana's Smart Moves and the Olympiad Marketing HookThe title stopped me first. 'King's Indian Attack at the Olympiad' suggests...
Shogdzhiev in the Headline, Rachael Li in the Body: The Arithmetic That Does Not Close in the St. Louis FileOctober 23, 2026. The final round has ended in St. Louis, and at a Mumbai des...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: Clutch Chess in the Headline, Lilov's Course in the BodyAt half past eleven last week I opened a chess news page and read the headlin...
Two Champions, Zero Scores: How a European Club Cup Headline Became a Magazine Price TagThe headline read like this: Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are the 2026...
The Five-Hour Days Are Over: Carlsen's Preparation Shift and a Quote That Crossed Three LanguagesThe first thing I did at two in the morning in my Bangalore flat was not...
Standing at the Edge of the Chessboard: The Nine-Move Opening DVD and the Accountant's Silence of the Engine EraMy father's chessboard still sits in the corner of the house, its wooden...
The Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Weapon or a 60-Minute Trap?I laid the board out from the first move, and the pattern had been waiting. T...
Kavutskiy's FritzTrainer debut: A new chapter in calculation and positional playChessBase's FritzTrainer series has a new name: Kostya Kavutskiy. The...
One Norm, Five Hundred Wednesdays: The Unfinished Ledger of Merijn van DelftWednesday evening, nine o'clock sharp. In a small room in Amsterdam a camera...
A Tournament in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: The Vlastimil Hort 2026 Course Market and the Physical Price of Theory Inflation"Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026: Return to Hotel Don Giovanni." The headline...
Not the FIDE General Assembly, but a 60-Minute Najdorf: How One Mislabeled Headline Opened the Door to Chess EconomicsOn a September evening in my Delhi flat, the headline on the screen looked...
Lilov's Six Videos and Turlov's Quote: Where the Ledger Refused to BalanceLast week I sat down with a promotional piece, and the first thing I did was...
Bodhana Sivanandan's Record, or an Elephant Gambit Promotion? A Data Audit of a Headline-Body MismatchLast week I sat before a chess-news feed — carrying 45 years of data-journali...
Samarkand's Last Day: 18 Match Points, 28.5 Board Points — and Gold Settled by a TiebreakThe final round's scoresheet read 2-2. Board one drew, board two won, board...
A Samarkand Result, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Gap Between ThemSamarkand, Round 8. Before the board, the headline: Germany stunned Uzbekista...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Claims of a Scandinavian Defense Course and the Arithmetic of the BoardHook: One Board, Seven Games, Three Swords. The advertisement is a single lin...
Broken Chain: The Headline, the Missing Samarkand, and the Ledger of TrainingLast year I opened a PDF booklet on a balcony in Penang. Beside me lay a smal...
Samarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: An Audit of a Mismatched Chess FileThe headline was bright: Samarkand, Round 8 — Germany stun Uzbekistan and joi...
Samarkand Round 8, a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian, and Bangladesh's Five GrandmastersHook: A headline selling one event, a body selling another Samarkand, Round 8...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Course in the Body: An Audit of Thirteen Information PointsSamarkand in the Headline, a Course in the Body: An Audit of Thirteen...