Chess
The Quiet Strategy of Board Order: India's 5/5 at the Olympiad and the Daniel Giri Question
The Endgame Teacher: Karsten Müller and the Invisible Market of Chess Knowledge
5.e5: Equal in Theory, Unequal on the Clock
Capablanca 2026, the Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: Three Gaps Inside a Chess DVD Advertisement
A Perfect Score, an Incomplete Report: What the European Club Cup Headline Left Out
ChessThe Empty Shelf in the Steel Cupboard: Seventeen Years Bangladesh Chess Never Wrote DownThe steel cupboard on the second floor of the federation building in Purana...
ChessThe Page Nobody Commissioned Became the Only Honest RecordOn a mid-2026 afternoon, I sat with a laptop open between rounds in the Puran...
ChessThe Quiet Strategy of Board Order: India's 5/5 at the Olympiad and the Daniel Giri QuestionIn the Round-5 report filed from Chennai, the thing that stood out most was n...
ChessThe Team-Average Illusion: Why 2715 in a 108-Team Field in Budva Is Not Yet EvidenceTwo rounds in, with 25 teams sitting on 2/2 at the European Club Cup in Budva...
ChessThe Quiet Resistance of Wei Yi: Why the 'Keymer System' Label Is Misleading ReadersIn the eighth round of the Chess Olympiad, Wei Yi sat down with the black...
ChessChess: The New Geography of Modern Sport on a Sixty-Four-Square BoardIntroduction International chess is no longer a parlour pastime for...
ChessSixty Minutes, Two Colours: The Opening Repertoire That Cannot Say What It SellsA sixty-minute video. One opening on the cover, another inside. The cover say...
ChessNakamura Leads, the Scoreboard Doesn't: Clutch Chess's Empty First DayDelhi, half past seven in the evening. The headline glows on the laptop scree...
ChessThe Endgame Teacher: Karsten Müller and the Invisible Market of Chess KnowledgeIt was past eleven in the club room in Penang, the fluorescent tube flickerin...
Chess5.e5: Equal in Theory, Unequal on the ClockNight nine. Leonine Chess Club's online blitz league out of Dhaka — fourteen...
Chess9...a5: The Price of a King's Indian Sideline, and the Ledger the DVD Never ShowsThe Bayonet Attack — 9.b4 against the Mar del Plata King's Indian — has becom...
ChessSaint Louis in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Ledger of Chess MediaThe tea had gone cold and I was still inside the phone. Late 2026, a tea stal...
ChessCapablanca 2026, the Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: Three Gaps Inside a Chess DVD AdvertisementThe headline stopped me. Capablanca. Buenos Aires, 2026. Individual gold on...
Chess108 Teams in Budva, One 2715: The European Club Cup Balance Sheet Where the Headline Is the First ErrorOctober 19, 2026. Two things have to be separated before the ledger opens. Th...
ChessA Perfect Score, an Incomplete Report: What the European Club Cup Headline Left Out"Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect at the European Club Cup." The headli...
ChessA ‘Perfect’ With No Denominator: The European Club Cup, the Scotch’s Second Life, and a Hole in the DatingI stopped at the round number. Sitting at my desk in Dublin, reading the...
ChessA Wrong FIDE President and a FRITZ 20 Ad: One Article, Two BodiesA link from the chess-news world landed in my inbox last week. The headline...
ChessTürkiye in the Headline, a Najdorf DVD in the Body: The Report Where Two Games Ran on Two BoardsThe headline announced a victory. Vahap Sanal, Team Türkiye, the NATO Chess...
ChessThe Mystery of the Ninth Move: The Seconds' Clock and Club Players' Preparation Anxiety in the King's Indian DefenseHook: One move, not eight. At two in the morning I was reading a production...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Club Names: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Records About the Chess Knowledge MarketIt was twenty minutes to two in the morning in Mymensingh. On the laptop, the...
ChessThe Page Nobody Commissioned Became the Only Honest RecordOn a mid-2026 afternoon, I sat with a laptop open between rounds in the Puran...
ChessThe Quiet Strategy of Board Order: India's 5/5 at the Olympiad and the Daniel Giri QuestionIn the Round-5 report filed from Chennai, the thing that stood out most was n...
ChessThe Team-Average Illusion: Why 2715 in a 108-Team Field in Budva Is Not Yet EvidenceTwo rounds in, with 25 teams sitting on 2/2 at the European Club Cup in Budva...
ChessThe Quiet Resistance of Wei Yi: Why the 'Keymer System' Label Is Misleading ReadersIn the eighth round of the Chess Olympiad, Wei Yi sat down with the black...
ChessChess: The New Geography of Modern Sport on a Sixty-Four-Square BoardIntroduction International chess is no longer a parlour pastime for...
ChessSixty Minutes, Two Colours: The Opening Repertoire That Cannot Say What It SellsA sixty-minute video. One opening on the cover, another inside. The cover say...
ChessNakamura Leads, the Scoreboard Doesn't: Clutch Chess's Empty First DayDelhi, half past seven in the evening. The headline glows on the laptop scree...
ChessThe Endgame Teacher: Karsten Müller and the Invisible Market of Chess KnowledgeIt was past eleven in the club room in Penang, the fluorescent tube flickerin...
Chess5.e5: Equal in Theory, Unequal on the ClockNight nine. Leonine Chess Club's online blitz league out of Dhaka — fourteen...
Chess9...a5: The Price of a King's Indian Sideline, and the Ledger the DVD Never ShowsThe Bayonet Attack — 9.b4 against the Mar del Plata King's Indian — has becom...
ChessSaint Louis in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Ledger of Chess MediaThe tea had gone cold and I was still inside the phone. Late 2026, a tea stal...
ChessCapablanca 2026, the Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: Three Gaps Inside a Chess DVD AdvertisementThe headline stopped me. Capablanca. Buenos Aires, 2026. Individual gold on...
Chess108 Teams in Budva, One 2715: The European Club Cup Balance Sheet Where the Headline Is the First ErrorOctober 19, 2026. Two things have to be separated before the ledger opens. Th...
ChessA Perfect Score, an Incomplete Report: What the European Club Cup Headline Left Out"Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect at the European Club Cup." The headli...
ChessA ‘Perfect’ With No Denominator: The European Club Cup, the Scotch’s Second Life, and a Hole in the DatingI stopped at the round number. Sitting at my desk in Dublin, reading the...
ChessA Wrong FIDE President and a FRITZ 20 Ad: One Article, Two BodiesA link from the chess-news world landed in my inbox last week. The headline...
ChessTürkiye in the Headline, a Najdorf DVD in the Body: The Report Where Two Games Ran on Two BoardsThe headline announced a victory. Vahap Sanal, Team Türkiye, the NATO Chess...
ChessThe Mystery of the Ninth Move: The Seconds' Clock and Club Players' Preparation Anxiety in the King's Indian DefenseHook: One move, not eight. At two in the morning I was reading a production...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Club Names: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Records About the Chess Knowledge MarketIt was twenty minutes to two in the morning in Mymensingh. On the laptop, the...