Chess
The Sixty-Minute Opening Promise: The Petroff–Scandinavian Mix-Up and the Coaching Pipeline GapSixty Minutes, Two Openings, Three Names Sixty minutes. The entire running ti...
Petroff, Scandinavian and the 60-Minute Promise: A Ledger Gap in the Chess-Education MarketTwo in the morning. Winter air against the Dublin window; Dhaka runs five hou...
Two Hong Kong Team-Chess Stories and the Major Data Contradiction Around Ding LirenHook The most important detail in the available report is not the result. It ...
Is Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? The Gap Between the Silence of the Board and the Noise of the BroadcastThe board sits quietly on the table. No spectator rises, no whistle blows, no...
A 115-Point Gap Across Six Boards in Budva: Paper Favourites and the Arithmetic of the ClockHook The first thing you notice walking into the hall in Budva is the shoes....
A Caruana Upset in the Headline, a 60-Minute Course in the Body: How US Championship News Got Wrapped in an AdI was scrolling through the round results of the US Championship when a...
A Headline Without a Body: Atyrau Masters and the Hollow Shell of a News HookA Headline Without a Body: Atyrau Masters and the Hollow Shell of a News Hook...
The Professor of Endgames: Karsten Müller and the Depth of Chess's Most Neglected PhaseIn 2026, when Niaz Murshed became South Asia's first grandmaster, the chess...
Calculation Can Be Bought, a Pipeline CannotA boy sat in my Mymensingh study, the board at move twenty-seven. He began...
Wednesday Screens, Permanent Ceilings: Merijn van Delft's Ten Years and Bangladesh's Own MirrorHook Wednesday evening, Mymensingh. Sticky heat outside, an ageing laptop...
Is Chess Really Massively Undervalued? The Open Ledger of the Education Market Behind a Six-Video CourseAt two in the morning in a Penang room, a laptop screen glows blue. On it sit...
Hidden highlights from the Olympiad: A Sicilian BrilliancyThe headline 'Hidden highlights from the Olympiad' suggests we are about to s...
The Headline That Is Not Chess News: The Turlov Question, a Najdorf Update, and the Information FractureHook: The Headline Hash, the Body Hash "Timur Turlov elected FIDE President."...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Board's Spark and the Quiet Ledger of a Father's SavingsThe Thursday round in Samarkand ran almost five hours. On board one, D. Gukes...
The Folder Said Samarkand, the Pages Said Prague: ChessBase #225 and the Bill for MemoryLast week I opened a folder. The name on it was unambiguous: Samarkand, round...