Chess
Eight Questions in Chess Analysis, but Where Is the Evidence? Missing Source Material Halts the Investigation
The Debt of Avoiding Theory: A Fifteen-Year-Old Leads Bavaria, and Lilov's Course Sits Below the Fold
Carlsen Will Not Sit for the Five-Hour Board: A Changed Preparation Model, AI's Mirror, and Budapest's New Arithmetic
Total Chess's Unified Rating: Nine Sentences, Zero Definitions, Ten Weeks Before Budapest
Scandinavian Defense, 60 Minutes, and a Tournament Name: What I Found Trying to Balance the Ledger
The Headline Without a Scoresheet: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Content Economy
ChessEmpty Input, Empty Analysis: How a Chess Data Pipeline Created the Risk of Fabricated ReportingA report arrived in a sports newsroom. It had a headline, subheadings, tables...
ChessEight Questions in Chess Analysis, but Where Is the Evidence? Missing Source Material Halts the InvestigationA chess position sometimes demands the most difficult decision of all: refusi...
ChessThe Chess Report That Left No TraceA file arrived at my desk. Domain label: chess. Everything else empty. Title:...
ChessThe Debt of Avoiding Theory: A Fifteen-Year-Old Leads Bavaria, and Lilov's Course Sits Below the FoldTwo in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom, an old laptop, and the Bavarian...
ChessYu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren in the Final Game of the Shenzhen Masters, but the Full Context Remains UnclearA result highlighted in the promotional material for ChessBase Magazine 225...
ChessFive Grandmasters, One Ledger, and the Chess Room Nobody CommissionedLast month, sitting at the coaching staff table in Rangpur, I was flipping...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet: An Opening DVD, a Budget, and a Title That Doesn't MatchChennai, 2026. In the hall of the 44th Olympiad I picked one board and stayed...
ChessFour Stars in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: The Chess Story Nobody Has Written YetIt is one in the morning in Rangpur. The laptop is open, and beside it lie a...
ChessWhat Carlsen Said at 35: Chess Is Now a Game of Range and Speed, Not DepthOctober 21. A Spanish sports daily, AS, publishes an interview. Marca picks i...
ChessCarlsen Will Not Sit for the Five-Hour Board: A Changed Preparation Model, AI's Mirror, and Budapest's New ArithmeticTbilisi, September 2026. A twenty-five-day knockout, 128 players, and a lapto...
ChessTotal Chess's Unified Rating: Nine Sentences, Zero Definitions, Ten Weeks Before BudapestAugust 29, 2026. A press release, the photo credit reading "FIDE." The headli...
ChessNot for Beginners: How a 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Repertoire Raises Club Players' Ratings While Setting Back Junior TalentLast week, around two in the morning at my home in Dublin, I opened the notes...
ChessThe Benko Gambit and Fritz 20: A Review Crisis Wrapped in the Commerce of Chess TrainingOpen a page. At the top, a title promises a review of The Modern Benko Gambit...
ChessScandinavian Defense, 60 Minutes, and a Tournament Name: What I Found Trying to Balance the LedgerLast week I opened a page. The headline said "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027...
ChessThe Headline Without a Scoresheet: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Content EconomyAtyrau Masters: Top two seeds defeated in opening rounds. That is the whole...
ChessThe Empty Grid: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh's ChessThe Empty Grid: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh's Chess Hook: The Table...
ChessWhy Humans Still Survive the Tablebase Era: Karsten Müller and the Economics of Chess InstructionOne player has no rating, no new opening theory, no engine-match percentage —...
ChessSixty Minutes Cannot Save a KingThat queen move is the oldest spark on the sixty-four squares. 1.e4 d5 — Blac...
ChessFrom Dusk till Dawn: Why a Chess Magazine Still SurvivesFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. Batumi...
ChessFrom SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT: Chess Publishing's New Frontier and the Quiet Economy of Saint LouisTwelve players, a closed round-robin, a window of roughly two weeks, and a...
ChessNot Unambitious, Just Uncomfortable: Seven Systems After 1.d4 d5 and the Ledger of Black's PreparationOver my last four club games I counted one thing: three of them began with...
ChessThe Crack Inside the Silver: India's Six Individual Medals and the Gold Left Behind at the Samarkand OlympiadPenang, 1:40 a.m. The laptop is propped against a coffee mug, and the glow of...
ChessThe One-Hour Sword: The Scandinavian Defense Promise and the Question Left Hanging Over the BoardI am in the habit of counting hours. I have counted hours at the federation...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Ledger of Chess TrainingI had laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The headline was...
ChessEight Questions in Chess Analysis, but Where Is the Evidence? Missing Source Material Halts the InvestigationA chess position sometimes demands the most difficult decision of all: refusi...
ChessThe Chess Report That Left No TraceA file arrived at my desk. Domain label: chess. Everything else empty. Title:...
ChessThe Debt of Avoiding Theory: A Fifteen-Year-Old Leads Bavaria, and Lilov's Course Sits Below the FoldTwo in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom, an old laptop, and the Bavarian...
ChessYu Yangyi Defeats Ding Liren in the Final Game of the Shenzhen Masters, but the Full Context Remains UnclearA result highlighted in the promotional material for ChessBase Magazine 225...
ChessFive Grandmasters, One Ledger, and the Chess Room Nobody CommissionedLast month, sitting at the coaching staff table in Rangpur, I was flipping...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet: An Opening DVD, a Budget, and a Title That Doesn't MatchChennai, 2026. In the hall of the 44th Olympiad I picked one board and stayed...
ChessFour Stars in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: The Chess Story Nobody Has Written YetIt is one in the morning in Rangpur. The laptop is open, and beside it lie a...
ChessWhat Carlsen Said at 35: Chess Is Now a Game of Range and Speed, Not DepthOctober 21. A Spanish sports daily, AS, publishes an interview. Marca picks i...
ChessCarlsen Will Not Sit for the Five-Hour Board: A Changed Preparation Model, AI's Mirror, and Budapest's New ArithmeticTbilisi, September 2026. A twenty-five-day knockout, 128 players, and a lapto...
ChessTotal Chess's Unified Rating: Nine Sentences, Zero Definitions, Ten Weeks Before BudapestAugust 29, 2026. A press release, the photo credit reading "FIDE." The headli...
ChessNot for Beginners: How a 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Repertoire Raises Club Players' Ratings While Setting Back Junior TalentLast week, around two in the morning at my home in Dublin, I opened the notes...
ChessThe Benko Gambit and Fritz 20: A Review Crisis Wrapped in the Commerce of Chess TrainingOpen a page. At the top, a title promises a review of The Modern Benko Gambit...
ChessScandinavian Defense, 60 Minutes, and a Tournament Name: What I Found Trying to Balance the LedgerLast week I opened a page. The headline said "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027...
ChessThe Headline Without a Scoresheet: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Content EconomyAtyrau Masters: Top two seeds defeated in opening rounds. That is the whole...
ChessThe Empty Grid: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh's ChessThe Empty Grid: The Ledger Nobody Kept for Bangladesh's Chess Hook: The Table...
ChessWhy Humans Still Survive the Tablebase Era: Karsten Müller and the Economics of Chess InstructionOne player has no rating, no new opening theory, no engine-match percentage —...
ChessSixty Minutes Cannot Save a KingThat queen move is the oldest spark on the sixty-four squares. 1.e4 d5 — Blac...
ChessFrom Dusk till Dawn: Why a Chess Magazine Still SurvivesFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. Batumi...
ChessFrom SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT: Chess Publishing's New Frontier and the Quiet Economy of Saint LouisTwelve players, a closed round-robin, a window of roughly two weeks, and a...
ChessNot Unambitious, Just Uncomfortable: Seven Systems After 1.d4 d5 and the Ledger of Black's PreparationOver my last four club games I counted one thing: three of them began with...
ChessThe Crack Inside the Silver: India's Six Individual Medals and the Gold Left Behind at the Samarkand OlympiadPenang, 1:40 a.m. The laptop is propped against a coffee mug, and the glow of...
ChessThe One-Hour Sword: The Scandinavian Defense Promise and the Question Left Hanging Over the BoardI am in the habit of counting hours. I have counted hours at the federation...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Ledger of Chess TrainingI had laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The headline was...