Chess
Sasikiran's Bavarian Title Buried Under the FRITZ 20 Promotional Blitz2026-11-09The headline stopped me. Bavarian Championship, title on tiebreak — Sasikiran...
The Game of the Week That Was Never Played: Six Videos, a Blank Source, and the Market for Chess Preparation2026-10-29The headline said Giri versus Abdusattorov, Game of the Week #745. I opened t...
A Win in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: The Verification Ledger of Rachel Li's Result2026-10-23The first thing I did when I opened the file last night was not analysis. It...
The 2715 Trap: What Budva's Team Averages Hide on Board Three2026-10-23The number that shouts loudest on the Budva pairing sheet for October 19, 202...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and a Headline That Doesn't Match the Tape2026-10-201. The Evening That Opened With a Gap On a Tuesday night in Bangalore I opene...
Sasikiran's Bavarian Title Buried Under the FRITZ 20 Promotional BlitzThe headline stopped me. Bavarian Championship, title on tiebreak — Sasikiran...
Analysis of an Information Vacuum: The Credibility Crisis in Chess ReportingA chess report arrived at the analysis desk without a headline, a source, or ...
Elephant Gambit: Practical Surprise Weapon or Commercially Packaged Risk?A chess game can change direction on the second move. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3,...
Samarkand's Silver and Bronze: The Unfinished Stories Behind India's Chess SuccessEven after the clocks stopped in the Samarkand chess hall, one number kept...
Successful Code, Empty List: The Chess Data Bangladesh Never RecordedLast month I asked a data desk one thing in a single line: give me Bangladesh...
The Game of the Week That Was Never Played: Six Videos, a Blank Source, and the Market for Chess PreparationThe headline said Giri versus Abdusattorov, Game of the Week #745. I opened t...
A Win in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: The Verification Ledger of Rachel Li's ResultThe first thing I did when I opened the file last night was not analysis. It...
The 2715 Trap: What Budva's Team Averages Hide on Board ThreeThe number that shouts loudest on the Budva pairing sheet for October 19, 202...
The 2715 Trap: Board Arithmetic Behind the ‘Paper Favourites’ Label in BudvaUnder six names on a team sheet in Budva sits the number 2715. In the preview...
2715 on the Budva Board: Where Money Sits Down as Rating in Club ChessOctober 19, 2026. Budva, Montenegro. Two rounds gone, and twenty-five of the...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and a Headline That Doesn't Match the Tape1. The Evening That Opened With a Gap On a Tuesday night in Bangalore I opene...
The Result That Got Sold, and the Board Nobody BoughtAt 3:30 a.m. in my Penang flat, the line ‘Liang 1–0 Niemann’ settled on my...
Wednesday Evenings, Ten Years: Merijn van Delft and Chess's Economy Beyond TitlesWednesday evening arrives slowly in Amsterdam. Light drains out of the canal...
The Silent Weapon of Theory Avoidance: The Closed Sicilian g3, Robert Ris' Model Game, and a Title's AmnesiaThe Silent Weapon of Theory Avoidance: The Closed Sicilian g3, Robert Ris'...
9...a5: One DVD, One Sideline, and a Ledger Against the King's Indian BayonetOver the past three weeks I sat beside a club room in Dhaka and tagged six...
2...d5 and an Eleven-Year-Old Record: Two Different Stories Buried Inside a Sixty-Minute CourseI opened the tab at ten past two in the morning. It was a chess publisher's...