Chess
The Underdog of Move Five: Italian Game's 5.e5!, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and a Club Player's Unfinished Claim
Perfect, But at What Score? The Missing Number in the European Club Cup Report
Samarkand Round Seven: One Headline, Ten Advertisements, and the Boards Nobody Recorded
Samarkand's Eight-Way Knot and 27 Miniatures: Who Pays the Physical Bill for Opening Preparation?
The Underdog of Move Five: Italian Game's 5.e5!, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and a Club Player's Unfinished ClaimAt six on a Monday evening, on the first floor above Shibbari Mor in Khulna, ...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Moves: The ChessBase #225 Blurb and Dhaka's Unwritten LedgerThe largest number in the promotional blurb for ChessBase Magazine #225 is no...
9...a5: A Sideline Sold as an Antidote, and a Headline That Forgets Its Own SubjectThe first thing an auditor notices on the product page is not a move. It is a...
Perfect, But at What Score? The Missing Number in the European Club Cup ReportIn October and November 2026, at the Kasparov–Karpov World Championship, the...
A Hundred Percent and Zero Proof: The Coverage Gap at the European Club CupI read the results sheet twice on the night the round ended. Two names at the...
The Headline Says Türkiye Won; the Body Sells a Najdorf Download11:50 pm, Bangalore desk. The wire moves one line: “Vahap Sanal and Team...
The Sixty-Minute Trap: Italian Game, a Headline's Gap, and the Purana Paltan BoardIn a Purana Paltan tea stall at half past seven, a phone gets passed around a...
The New Mask of the Benko Gambit: When Chess's 'Training Revolution' Is Sold in the Shadow of Free EnginesIn March 2026 I sat in a bedroom in Mymensingh opening PGN files of the...
The Scotch Revival and a Headline's Gap: From Kasparov 2026 to Mikhalchishin's CourseI wrote a single number in my notebook that day — eight. Eight information...
5.e5!: Easy to Learn, Hard to Break — The Italian Game's Modern Branch and the Quiet Rebellion of the Club BoardA bedroom in Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop. On the screen, one frozen...
Samarkand Round Seven: One Headline, Ten Advertisements, and the Boards Nobody RecordedA headline. Beneath it, three facts — all three about chess. The headline say...
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw and Lead by a Single Match Point — and the Advertisement Hidden Beneath the HeadlineAt a tea stall in Purana Paltan I opened the phone and the first thing that...
Samarkand's Headline, a DVD's Body: The Chess Story That Forgets Its Own NameSamarkand, round seven. Eleven at night in Saint Petersburg, mist hanging on...
Samarkand Round 7: One Match Point, and an Advertisement Wearing a HeadlineIt was nearly two in the morning in Saint Petersburg. I had opened a page...
The 'Antidote' 9...a5 and the Stale Engine Myth: From a Samarkand Headline to the Bayonet AttackThree in the morning, Mymensingh. Load-shedding outside, a secondhand laptop...
9...a5: The Move That Escapes Memory, but Not the EngineIt was 3:10 a.m. in a Mymensingh bedroom. The fan turned slowly overhead,...
Thirty Minutes in Hand: Nihal's Board, the Trap of Team Scoring, and the Moves Nobody Wrote Down"He had time... he had time!" That is Vidit Gujrathi's voice, live in the...
Samarkand's Eight-Way Knot and 27 Miniatures: Who Pays the Physical Bill for Opening Preparation?Hook: What the Table Shows, What the Body Does Eight players. Four rounds....
30 Minutes, Three Moves, One Board: Where India's Team Crown Loosened at the Chess OlympiadI begin an article with a number, not a verdict. The first figure that landed...
An Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Real Price of Preparation in Chess's Information MarketEight names at the top of the table after four rounds. Not one, not two — eig...
Poland Again Prove to Be the Achilles Heel of India's Women's Team: A Data-Led Analysis of Round 5Hook: There is no body beyond the headline. Only one line arrived: ‘Poland...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Moves: The ChessBase #225 Blurb and Dhaka's Unwritten LedgerThe largest number in the promotional blurb for ChessBase Magazine #225 is no...
9...a5: A Sideline Sold as an Antidote, and a Headline That Forgets Its Own SubjectThe first thing an auditor notices on the product page is not a move. It is a...
Perfect, But at What Score? The Missing Number in the European Club Cup ReportIn October and November 2026, at the Kasparov–Karpov World Championship, the...
A Hundred Percent and Zero Proof: The Coverage Gap at the European Club CupI read the results sheet twice on the night the round ended. Two names at the...
The Headline Says Türkiye Won; the Body Sells a Najdorf Download11:50 pm, Bangalore desk. The wire moves one line: “Vahap Sanal and Team...
The Sixty-Minute Trap: Italian Game, a Headline's Gap, and the Purana Paltan BoardIn a Purana Paltan tea stall at half past seven, a phone gets passed around a...
The New Mask of the Benko Gambit: When Chess's 'Training Revolution' Is Sold in the Shadow of Free EnginesIn March 2026 I sat in a bedroom in Mymensingh opening PGN files of the...
The Scotch Revival and a Headline's Gap: From Kasparov 2026 to Mikhalchishin's CourseI wrote a single number in my notebook that day — eight. Eight information...
5.e5!: Easy to Learn, Hard to Break — The Italian Game's Modern Branch and the Quiet Rebellion of the Club BoardA bedroom in Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop. On the screen, one frozen...
Samarkand Round Seven: One Headline, Ten Advertisements, and the Boards Nobody RecordedA headline. Beneath it, three facts — all three about chess. The headline say...
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw and Lead by a Single Match Point — and the Advertisement Hidden Beneath the HeadlineAt a tea stall in Purana Paltan I opened the phone and the first thing that...
Samarkand's Headline, a DVD's Body: The Chess Story That Forgets Its Own NameSamarkand, round seven. Eleven at night in Saint Petersburg, mist hanging on...
Samarkand Round 7: One Match Point, and an Advertisement Wearing a HeadlineIt was nearly two in the morning in Saint Petersburg. I had opened a page...
The 'Antidote' 9...a5 and the Stale Engine Myth: From a Samarkand Headline to the Bayonet AttackThree in the morning, Mymensingh. Load-shedding outside, a secondhand laptop...
9...a5: The Move That Escapes Memory, but Not the EngineIt was 3:10 a.m. in a Mymensingh bedroom. The fan turned slowly overhead,...
Thirty Minutes in Hand: Nihal's Board, the Trap of Team Scoring, and the Moves Nobody Wrote Down"He had time... he had time!" That is Vidit Gujrathi's voice, live in the...
Samarkand's Eight-Way Knot and 27 Miniatures: Who Pays the Physical Bill for Opening Preparation?Hook: What the Table Shows, What the Body Does Eight players. Four rounds....
30 Minutes, Three Moves, One Board: Where India's Team Crown Loosened at the Chess OlympiadI begin an article with a number, not a verdict. The first figure that landed...
An Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Real Price of Preparation in Chess's Information MarketEight names at the top of the table after four rounds. Not one, not two — eig...
Poland Again Prove to Be the Achilles Heel of India's Women's Team: A Data-Led Analysis of Round 5Hook: There is no body beyond the headline. Only one line arrived: ‘Poland...