Chess
Echoes in the Steel Cupboard: Dragon Chilling's 5-1 in Hong Kong and Dhaka's Countless Unfinished Claims
Dragon Chilling's 5-1 Team Rapid Blitz Triumph in Hong Kong and the Headline Contradiction: An Information Audit
The King's Indian 'Antidote' 9...a5: A Claim Sold Without Evidence
The Stage of the Headline, the Body of an Advertisement: Caruana's 'Fifth' Claim and Lilov's Course
3.Bc4 Against the Sicilian and an Eleven-Year-Old's Hand: Reading the Samarkand Performance Ledger
ChessElephant Gambit: How Strong Is Black's Aggressive Weapon Behind the Element of Surprise?The Question Behind the First Move of the Elephant Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3...
ChessEchoes in the Steel Cupboard: Dragon Chilling's 5-1 in Hong Kong and Dhaka's Countless Unfinished ClaimsThe steel cupboard at the old chess building in Purana Paltan still releases ...
ChessDragon Chilling's 5-1 Team Rapid Blitz Triumph in Hong Kong and the Headline Contradiction: An Information AuditThe final move on the Hong Kong board had barely landed when the scoreboard...
ChessThe Empty Folder: The Record Bangladesh Chess Never KeptLast night in my Delhi flat, the report that came up on the laptop screen had...
ChessChessBase's 60 Minutes: One Product, Two Identities, and the Fault Line That Should Change a Buyer's DecisionIntroduction The market for instructional chess video has become an industry ...
ChessThe King's Indian 'Antidote' 9...a5: A Claim Sold Without EvidenceThe DVD cover shows Capablanca. Eighth Chess Olympiad, Buenos Aires,...
ChessNovy Bor and SuperChess Stay Perfect, and the Old Trap of a Scotch Coaching VideoI picked up a report on the European Club Cup. The headline spoke of two team...
ChessKing's Indian Defense: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack and the Human Calculation in the Engine EraThe tea went cold long ago. On a balcony in Penang, under the sound of rain a...
ChessScandinavian Defense: The Impossible Promise Hidden in Carlsen's 60-Minute MoveIn September 2026, the 23rd episode of a new instructional video series title...
ChessKavutskiy's Two ChessBase Courses, and the Arithmetic of Bangladesh's Empty HallOne evening in February 2026, in my Khulna flat, I opened a video file on an...
ChessCalculation and Positional Play: ChessBase's New Trainer Courses and the Quiet Ledger of the Coaching MarketI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. A new name entered...
ChessThe Stage of the Headline, the Body of an Advertisement: Caruana's 'Fifth' Claim and Lilov's CourseI was auditing the evening chess news feed at my Mumbai desk, spreadsheet ope...
Chess3.Bc4 Against the Sicilian and an Eleven-Year-Old's Hand: Reading the Samarkand Performance LedgerThe Moment in the Hall The wooden chairs in the Samarkand hall are half empty...
ChessThe Quiet Testimony of Four Squares: Chess Is Not Inexpressive, It Is InvisibleDecember 2026. A junior chess hall in Dhaka. Fog outside, and inside only the...
ChessUnder the Scotch's Shadow, a 'FIDE Rating' File: A Ledger Audit of a Title–Content FractureI opened the file last night. The label on top read "FIDE Ratings - October...
ChessWhat the Body Said, What the Medals Hid: A Clinical Reading of India's Samarkand Olympiad FatigueTwo teams. Twenty-two rounds. Exactly two losses. And still no gold. India...
ChessSamarkand Ledger: Is India's Silver-Bronze a 'Near-Gold' or a Record of Conversion Failure?In Batumi, Bangladesh played 44 games. Logging them board by board, I found 1...
ChessFive Najdorfs in Sixty Minutes, One FIDE Headline With Zero EvidenceTwo in the morning in Mymensingh, and the laptop screen is the only light in...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225 and a Wrong Headline: From Prague 2026 to Dhaka's PipelineThe file that belonged to a different tournament Last Sunday, at twenty to...
ChessSamarkand Headline, ChessBase Package: What the Metadata Mismatch Tells UsThe headline arrived with a specific promise: "Samarkand R8 (Women): China le...
ChessChessBase Magazine in a Samarkand Headline: A Metadata Test of Information CredibilityAn investigation into a metadata mismatch: a headline claiming 'Samarkand R8...