Chess
Petroff in the Title, Scandinavian in the Fine Print: Auditing a Chess Course Listing
The 2715 of Budva: Where Rating Is Something You Can Buy at the European Club Cup
9...a5: A Sideline Against the Bayonet Attack, a DVD, and the Empty Middle of Bangladeshi Chess
The Brilliancy With No Moves: ChessBase #225, an Unopened Folder and South Asia's Missing Chain
Headline Precision, Body Void: From Samarkand Round 7 to a FRITZ 20 Advertisement
Petroff in the Title, Scandinavian in the Fine Print: Auditing a Chess Course ListingLast Tuesday evening I was scrolling a course catalogue from Bangalore, hunti...
Sindarov's 'Pet-Line' Message to Nakamura at Clutch Chess: What Was Actually Proven Before the World Championship?When Javokhir Sindarov sat down with the black pieces against Hikaru Nakamura...
Headline vs Content: The Opening Identity Conflict Around Libiszewski's Chess CourseA recent review of instructional chess content has sparked debate, and the...
The 2715 of Budva: Where Rating Is Something You Can Buy at the European Club CupTwenty-five teams sit on 2/2 after two rounds in Budva. In a 108-team Swiss...
From Benko Gambit to Fritz 20: How Chess Learning Market Fills Up with GM Brands and Engine HypeIn a Mymensingh bedroom, on a secondhand laptop, the first time I saw 1.d4 Nf...
9...a5 — Black's Quiet Rebellion in the King's Indian Mar del Plata, and the Unsettled Ledger of a HeadlineThree winters, the same scene returns. A table in the corner of a club room, ...
9...a5: A Sideline Against the Bayonet Attack, a DVD, and the Empty Middle of Bangladeshi ChessHook White played 9.b4. The board went quiet for a second, then Black's clock...
The Brilliancy With No Moves: ChessBase #225, an Unopened Folder and South Asia's Missing ChainI read the press release three times. The first time I caught the typo in the...
A Samarkand Headline and a Bayonet Attack 'Antidote': Data Integrity in Chess Media, the NNUE Era, and the Real Value of 9...a5The headline said one thing. The body said another. Round 7, Samarkand Open —...
Samarkand R7: An Advertisement Hidden Inside a One-Match-Point Headline, and the Invisible Coverage of Women's ChessThe headline read: "Samarkand R7 (women): China and Kazakhstan draw, now lead...
Headline Precision, Body Void: From Samarkand Round 7 to a FRITZ 20 AdvertisementThe headline put three things on screen in a single line. Venue: Samarkand....
Thirty Minutes and Three Moves: From Nihal's Board to Bangladesh's LedgerThree moves before the game ended, the clock still showed thirty minutes. The...
Poland Is India's Achilles Heel Again: The Round 5 Olympiad Loss No Camera Ever RecordsWhen the cameras leave the hall, what stays behind is a pairing sheet and a...
The Shadow Called Poland: A Round Five Headline and a Block Nobody Has OpenedThe chair in the third row of the press room was still cold, and all I had wa...
Four Rounds, Eight Leaders: The Ledger in ChessBase Magazine 225At the Bukhara Hall in Samarkand, before the last piece stopped moving on boa...
The Scotch Game: From Kasparov's Revival to Mikhalchishin's Counter-System — A 25-Year LedgerThe headline says 'Egon Mattaaq: His tournament debut at the Olympiad' — but...