Chess
Sixty Minutes on Trial: The Elephant Gambit Market, Bare Boards, and Bangladesh's Missing Norms
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: A Chess News Metadata Error and the Ledger Behind It
Whose Neck Does the Sword Hang Over? A One-Hour Scandinavian and Our Seventeen Years
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Exhausted Savings: The Real Scoreboard at Samarkand
Shadow of Promotion on the Chessboard: A New Equation of Opening Preparation Around the Xiong–Liang EpisodeChess is never only about the calculation of sixty-four squares. Behind it si...
WFCC Grand Prix Final in Fujairah: Two Different Chess Realities Behind a Single HeadlineIntroduction: The News That Arrived, and the News That Did Not Fujairah, one ...
Bodhana's Name Is Selling 5 e5 — And the Same Gap Sits in Bangladesh's Five-GM LedgerLate last week I opened my laptop around eleven at night to read a column. Th...
One 2700+ Average in Budva's 108-Team Ledger: Bayegan Pendik's Paper Favourite Status and the Board-Dispersion ArithmeticOctober 19, 2026. Two rounds into the European Club Cup in Budva, five of the...
The Najdorf Update and the Vanishing Truth Behind a NATO TitleIn March 2026, when I was opening PGN files for every round of the National...
European Club Cup: Favourites Set for Direct EncountersThe 2026 edition of the European Club Cup has begun on the Montenegrin coast ...
The Marketing of Move Five: An Opening Line, a Headline Gap, and the Club Player's LedgerEleven at night, third round of an online club event. A 1500-rated player has...
Sixty Minutes on Trial: The Elephant Gambit Market, Bare Boards, and Bangladesh's Missing NormsThat steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still does not open easily. On an...
The Scotch Revival and the Counter-Repertoire Market: A Tactical LedgerHook: One Opening, One Match, One Ledger New York, 2026. A world championship...
Is Chess Really ‘Inexpressive’? A Former Badminton Player’s Comment and the Lesson We Can TakeHook A person stood in the Formula E paddock and said, “Chess is one of the...
Named 'Mother', King's Indian Inside: The ChessMom DVD, 9...a5, and the Arithmetic of MarketingNamed 'Mother', King's Indian Inside: The ChessMom DVD, 9...a5, and the...
Vietnam's Olympiad Gold: A Group B Crown, Two GM Norms, and an Unfinished LedgerHook: The Headline That Arrived at 2:14 A.M. It was 2:14 a.m. in Dublin, and ...
The Samarkand Arithmetic: India's Silver and Bronze, Gukesh on Board 4, and Savitha's 8.5The final-round team match never looks dramatic on first glance. India 2–2...
54 Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape and the Crack Inside India's Gold RushIt was almost two in the morning. In a bedroom in Mymensingh, an old laptop...
WFCC Grand Prix Final in Fujairah: Two Different Chess Realities Behind a Single HeadlineIntroduction: The News That Arrived, and the News That Did Not Fujairah, one ...
Bodhana's Name Is Selling 5 e5 — And the Same Gap Sits in Bangladesh's Five-GM LedgerLate last week I opened my laptop around eleven at night to read a column. Th...
One 2700+ Average in Budva's 108-Team Ledger: Bayegan Pendik's Paper Favourite Status and the Board-Dispersion ArithmeticOctober 19, 2026. Two rounds into the European Club Cup in Budva, five of the...
The Najdorf Update and the Vanishing Truth Behind a NATO TitleIn March 2026, when I was opening PGN files for every round of the National...
European Club Cup: Favourites Set for Direct EncountersThe 2026 edition of the European Club Cup has begun on the Montenegrin coast ...
The Marketing of Move Five: An Opening Line, a Headline Gap, and the Club Player's LedgerEleven at night, third round of an online club event. A 1500-rated player has...
Sixty Minutes on Trial: The Elephant Gambit Market, Bare Boards, and Bangladesh's Missing NormsThat steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still does not open easily. On an...
The Scotch Revival and the Counter-Repertoire Market: A Tactical LedgerHook: One Opening, One Match, One Ledger New York, 2026. A world championship...
Is Chess Really ‘Inexpressive’? A Former Badminton Player’s Comment and the Lesson We Can TakeHook A person stood in the Formula E paddock and said, “Chess is one of the...
Named 'Mother', King's Indian Inside: The ChessMom DVD, 9...a5, and the Arithmetic of MarketingNamed 'Mother', King's Indian Inside: The ChessMom DVD, 9...a5, and the...
Vietnam's Olympiad Gold: A Group B Crown, Two GM Norms, and an Unfinished LedgerHook: The Headline That Arrived at 2:14 A.M. It was 2:14 a.m. in Dublin, and ...
The Samarkand Arithmetic: India's Silver and Bronze, Gukesh on Board 4, and Savitha's 8.5The final-round team match never looks dramatic on first glance. India 2–2...
54 Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape and the Crack Inside India's Gold RushIt was almost two in the morning. In a bedroom in Mymensingh, an old laptop...