Chess
From an Empty Folder to Dhaka's Chessboard: The Land of Five Grandmasters That Waited Seventeen Years for a New Face
Carlsen at 35: The Limits of Endurance, the 'Win Faster' Strategy, and Budapest's Format Experiment
The File That Doesn't Believe Its Own Headline: The Scotch Opening, Kasparov's 2026, and Munich 2026
27 Miniatures and Zero Moves: The Ledger of the Chess-Training Market
Chess5.e5!: The Move That Turns the Modern Italian into a Trap-Filled Minefield for Club Players — And a Warning LabelI always look first at where the black knight will land on the board. On one...
ChessClosed Sicilian: The 7.b3 Confusion and the Over-reading of a 'Model Game'On June 6, 2026, Robert Ris's 'Fast and Furious' series published a video...
ChessFrom an Empty Folder to Dhaka's Chessboard: The Land of Five Grandmasters That Waited Seventeen Years for a New FaceIn the summer of 2026, I sat in a Delhi hostel room doing something no one ha...
ChessIs Bangladesh's Chess Trapped in Its Own Creation?The clock at the innermost table of the Purana Paltan chess hall had stopped ...
ChessGiri and Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Ledger of a Chess Advert"Number 745." On a Monday night in Saint Petersburg I opened the file on my...
ChessOne Headline, Seven Adverts: Where the Ledger Goes Missing in the ‘Nakamura Leads’ Clutch Chess StoryI opened the page at 2:40 a.m. from a flat in Dublin, which is 7:40 a.m. on a...
ChessWrong Name, Right Chess: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and the Market for an Opening VideoThe rain had stopped in Penang, but water kept ticking on the tin roof of the...
ChessFour Names in the Headline, Six Videos in the BodyA link arrived from Dhaka on Tuesday morning. It came from a club player in t...
ChessA Tiebreak in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Gap in Chess Reporting Nobody MeasuresHalf past midnight, a bedroom in Mymensingh. Game number 641 from the 2026...
ChessCarlsen at 35: The Limits of Endurance, the 'Win Faster' Strategy, and Budapest's Format Experiment"I don't play such long games anymore. So I try to win a bit faster." The lin...
ChessThe Page With No Date: Timur Turlov, a Wrong FIDE Title, and an Advertisement for Fritz 20The page has no date in its corner. At 6:40 in the evening it came off my...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Repertoire Against the Real Accounting of Chess TheoryOpening a chess course product page last week, the first thing that caught my...
ChessA Review in the Benko Gambit's Name, FRITZ 20 Advertising InsideAt two in the morning the page looked like a wrong turn. The headline was...
ChessFrom Benko Gambit to Blockchain: The New Economy of Chess TrainingBehind every move on a chessboard lies a structural logic. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5...
ChessThe File That Doesn't Believe Its Own Headline: The Scotch Opening, Kasparov's 2026, and Munich 2026I first thought the archive page was an error. The headline read “The Chess...
ChessNo Receipt Yet: Kostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase's FritzTrainer RosterA new name has appeared on a ChessBase product page. Kostya Kavutskiy —...
ChessThe Wednesday Bangladesh Doesn't Have: Merijn van Delft, Ten Years of Broadcast, and the Lesson of an Empty StudioWednesday, nine in the evening. In a room in Amsterdam a camera switches on,...
ChessIs Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? The Spectator Crisis Hiding Beneath the Eval BarLast December, close to three in the morning in a Dublin flat, I was hunched...
Chess27 Miniatures and Zero Moves: The Ledger of the Chess-Training MarketLast week a promotional brief arrived in my inbox. It read: 27 miniatures, 10...
ChessSaint Louis in the Headline, Prague on the Dissection Table: A Chess MisdiagnosisLast week a headline landed on my desk: "Knight to October 8 — Saint Louis to...
ChessA Magazine With No Moves: ChessBase #225 and the Ledger of the Chess Content MarketLast week, at my table in Moscow, I opened a product page. The headline read:...
Chess9...a5 Is Not an Antidote: A King's Indian DVD, a Mismatched Title, and What the Bangladeshi Club Board Actually NeedsIn 2026 I sat in a small room in Mymensingh tagging 640 games — Premier...
ChessSeven Wins on the Fifth Board, Three Years of a Father's Savings: Savitha Shri's Arithmetic in SamarkandThe clock in the Samarkand hall had passed the fifth hour. On board one,...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The Empty Samarkand Scorecard and an Unfinished LedgerThe first thing I did when the file opened was assume my search filter was...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, a Coach's Credential, and the Quiet Economy of Chess InstructionSeven in the evening, Saint Petersburg. Snow outside the window, laptop light...
ChessThe Broken Savings Ledger Sitting Next to Seven WinsThe round in Samarkand took nearly five hours to finish. In the...
ChessClosed Sicilian: The 7.b3 Confusion and the Over-reading of a 'Model Game'On June 6, 2026, Robert Ris's 'Fast and Furious' series published a video...
ChessFrom an Empty Folder to Dhaka's Chessboard: The Land of Five Grandmasters That Waited Seventeen Years for a New FaceIn the summer of 2026, I sat in a Delhi hostel room doing something no one ha...
ChessIs Bangladesh's Chess Trapped in Its Own Creation?The clock at the innermost table of the Purana Paltan chess hall had stopped ...
ChessGiri and Abdusattorov on the Cover, Six Videos Inside: The Ledger of a Chess Advert"Number 745." On a Monday night in Saint Petersburg I opened the file on my...
ChessOne Headline, Seven Adverts: Where the Ledger Goes Missing in the ‘Nakamura Leads’ Clutch Chess StoryI opened the page at 2:40 a.m. from a flat in Dublin, which is 7:40 a.m. on a...
ChessWrong Name, Right Chess: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and the Market for an Opening VideoThe rain had stopped in Penang, but water kept ticking on the tin roof of the...
ChessFour Names in the Headline, Six Videos in the BodyA link arrived from Dhaka on Tuesday morning. It came from a club player in t...
ChessA Tiebreak in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Gap in Chess Reporting Nobody MeasuresHalf past midnight, a bedroom in Mymensingh. Game number 641 from the 2026...
ChessCarlsen at 35: The Limits of Endurance, the 'Win Faster' Strategy, and Budapest's Format Experiment"I don't play such long games anymore. So I try to win a bit faster." The lin...
ChessThe Page With No Date: Timur Turlov, a Wrong FIDE Title, and an Advertisement for Fritz 20The page has no date in its corner. At 6:40 in the evening it came off my...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: A 60-Minute Repertoire Against the Real Accounting of Chess TheoryOpening a chess course product page last week, the first thing that caught my...
ChessA Review in the Benko Gambit's Name, FRITZ 20 Advertising InsideAt two in the morning the page looked like a wrong turn. The headline was...
ChessFrom Benko Gambit to Blockchain: The New Economy of Chess TrainingBehind every move on a chessboard lies a structural logic. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5...
ChessThe File That Doesn't Believe Its Own Headline: The Scotch Opening, Kasparov's 2026, and Munich 2026I first thought the archive page was an error. The headline read “The Chess...
ChessNo Receipt Yet: Kostya Kavutskiy Joins ChessBase's FritzTrainer RosterA new name has appeared on a ChessBase product page. Kostya Kavutskiy —...
ChessThe Wednesday Bangladesh Doesn't Have: Merijn van Delft, Ten Years of Broadcast, and the Lesson of an Empty StudioWednesday, nine in the evening. In a room in Amsterdam a camera switches on,...
ChessIs Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? The Spectator Crisis Hiding Beneath the Eval BarLast December, close to three in the morning in a Dublin flat, I was hunched...
Chess27 Miniatures and Zero Moves: The Ledger of the Chess-Training MarketLast week a promotional brief arrived in my inbox. It read: 27 miniatures, 10...
ChessSaint Louis in the Headline, Prague on the Dissection Table: A Chess MisdiagnosisLast week a headline landed on my desk: "Knight to October 8 — Saint Louis to...
ChessA Magazine With No Moves: ChessBase #225 and the Ledger of the Chess Content MarketLast week, at my table in Moscow, I opened a product page. The headline read:...
Chess9...a5 Is Not an Antidote: A King's Indian DVD, a Mismatched Title, and What the Bangladeshi Club Board Actually NeedsIn 2026 I sat in a small room in Mymensingh tagging 640 games — Premier...
ChessSeven Wins on the Fifth Board, Three Years of a Father's Savings: Savitha Shri's Arithmetic in SamarkandThe clock in the Samarkand hall had passed the fifth hour. On board one,...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The Empty Samarkand Scorecard and an Unfinished LedgerThe first thing I did when the file opened was assume my search filter was...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, a Coach's Credential, and the Quiet Economy of Chess InstructionSeven in the evening, Saint Petersburg. Snow outside the window, laptop light...
ChessThe Broken Savings Ledger Sitting Next to Seven WinsThe round in Samarkand took nearly five hours to finish. In the...