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ChessChess Analysis Needs Evidence First: What a Zero-Payload Report Reveals2026-11-07The most important discovery in the supplied chess analysis is not on a...
ChessA Chess Repertoire Product Caught Between Two Openings: Chigorin Defence or the Italian Game's 5.e5!?2026-11-02Introduction Commercial opening-preparation products are nothing new in chess...
ChessGermany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: An Autopsy of the Samarkand File2026-09-26I opened the file to read a result from Round 8 in Samarkand. The headline sa...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles in Sixty Minutes: The Carlsen Game I Could Not Find2026-09-26A thirteen-point promotional blurb landed on my desk. Sixty minutes of...
ChessA Samarkand Label, Prague Inside: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Training Economy2026-09-26At three in the morning in my Mymensingh bedroom, the second-hand laptop was...
Chess Analysis Needs Evidence First: What a Zero-Payload Report RevealsThe most important discovery in the supplied chess analysis is not on a...
Bangladesh Chess in the Ledger: The Empty Squares Between Niaz and NeerLast year I sat up one night to test a suspicion of mine. I typed 'Bangladesh...
A Chess Repertoire Product Caught Between Two Openings: Chigorin Defence or the Italian Game's 5.e5!?Introduction Commercial opening-preparation products are nothing new in chess...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess ChampionshipThe US Chess Championship title was decided in the tiebreak. After the...
Nakamura's First Day, Fritz 20's Advertisement: The Empty Cells of the Clutch Chess ScorecardBefore I open a page, my notebook has one rule: standings first, story second...
The Final-Round Draw: Rachael Li's 8.5, a Missing Rating, and an Unverified HeadlineAt the Saint Louis Chess Club, the arithmetic of the final round was almost...
A Tiebreak Headline, a Six-Video Body: Where the Crosstable Went in the So-Caruana StoryThe headline arrived in one line: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and Dhaka's Unfilled LedgerI opened the September release page and did not read first. I counted first....
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan Pendik's 2715 Average and the Quiet Arithmetic of 108 Teams in BudvaStanding in a Budva hotel corridor, the first thing that catches the eye is n...
Budva Headline, Sixty-Minute Elephant: A Crack in Chess Publishing's Ledger of ProofRain was falling on the balcony in Penang. The sound on the tin roof mixed wi...
9...a5 in the King's Indian: The Strategy Inside a Sales Line, and an Old Engine BeliefLast week a promotional blurb for a chess instructional DVD landed on my desk...
The 5.e5! Receipt: Auditing the Italian Game Modern Variation as a Club RepertoireA headline promised the strange comforts of superstition in chess. The payloa...
The Price of Calculation: ChessBase's New Author and the Table Without a CoachThe tea had long gone cold. In a small Mirpur flat, under a table lamp, an op...
Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026: A Tournament Headline, a Course BodyI stopped at the headline. “Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026: Return to Hotel D...
From Tsaghkadzor School Champions to a 9...a5 DVD: Two Different Stories Under One Chess HeadlineThe headline made me think this was a result. European Schools Chess...
Prague's Grid, Saint Louis's Headline: An Empty Square in the Chess Training MarketReading a table of contents takes four minutes. Twenty-seven miniatures, ten...
The File Was Labelled Samarkand, the Inside Was Prague: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Economics of Chess MemoryThe folder was labelled Samarkand. Round eight. Women's section. China leadin...
Samarkand R8: Germany's Upset Headline, a Scandinavian Course Ad; The Blockchain of Data Integrity Is BrokenHook Samarkand, Round 8. The headline is eye-catching: Germany stunned...
The Scandinavian Defense Course: A 60-Minute Promise and an Uncited Carlsen ClaimI learned my arithmetic in the Purana Paltan press room, and it still pays...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: An Autopsy of the Samarkand FileI opened the file to read a result from Round 8 in Samarkand. The headline sa...