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ChessThe File That Came Back Empty: An Autopsy of Recordlessness in Bangladesh Chess2026-10-27At 2:40 in the morning in a Khulna flat, a document opened with ten fields an...
ChessTimur Turlov and the Cyprus President's Meeting: A Documented Case of FIDE Presidency Misattribution2026-10-22Last week a news headline forced me to open my FIDE leadership roster file. T...
ChessA Samarkand Headline on a King's Indian Body: A Forensic Note on a Feed Error and Bangladesh's Chess Economy2026-09-27Late one afternoon in Rangpur I opened a feed archive that promised a...
ChessVietnam's 'Olympiad Gold': The Ledger Missing from the Headline2026-11-03On the night of September 27, the scoreboard was flashing. A draw against...
ChessFujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final, but the Announcement Is Mostly a Commercial Pitch2026-11-01FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates: The emirate of Fujairah is set to host the...
ChessA Coaching Product on Scotch Defence Behind a FIDE Ratings Headline: A Source-Integrity Reassessment2026-10-31A report headlined with a FIDE rating list for October 2026 leads a reader to...
Vietnam's 'Olympiad Gold': The Ledger Missing from the HeadlineOn the night of September 27, the scoreboard was flashing. A draw against...
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final, but the Announcement Is Mostly a Commercial PitchFUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates: The emirate of Fujairah is set to host the...
A Coaching Product on Scotch Defence Behind a FIDE Ratings Headline: A Source-Integrity ReassessmentA report headlined with a FIDE rating list for October 2026 leads a reader to...
Nakamura in the Headline, Fritz 20 in the Body: Who Actually Kept the Clutch Chess Scoreboard?It was two in the morning in Mymensingh. The back room of the house is narrow...
The King's Indian Bayonet Problem: 9...a5 Is Being Sold, and the Headline Says Something ElseThe product page opened with a headline, and the headline said King's Indian...
The File That Came Back Empty: An Autopsy of Recordlessness in Bangladesh ChessAt 2:40 in the morning in a Khulna flat, a document opened with ten fields an...
Clutch Chess in Saint Louis: The Caruana, Nakamura, Sindarov and Pragg Showdown — A Story of a Course Told Through a Headline-Body DisconnectIn the world of chess, a gap between headline and body is nothing new. But a...
Two Club Names, No Scoresheet: How the European Club Cup 2026 Headline Ended Up Inside a Publisher's CatalogueThe news arrived in a single line. "Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are 2026...
Novy Bor and SuperChess Stay Perfect: Behind the Club Cup Headline, a Scotch Defence LessonThe headline belongs to the European Club Cup, but reading it reveals the rea...
Timur Turlov and the Cyprus President's Meeting: A Documented Case of FIDE Presidency MisattributionLast week a news headline forced me to open my FIDE leadership roster file. T...
Neiksans in the Headline, Martin on the Page: The One-Hour Scandinavian and the Real Ledger of Chess InstructionThe headline belongs to Arturs Neiksans. 'From quitting chess to becoming a...
The Wall at 5 e5: Accounting for a Trap Repertoire in the Club RoomA Tuesday night in November 2026, the folding table at the Leonine Chess Club...
9...a5: A King's Indian Antidote, a DVD's Claim, and Bangladesh's Empty RoomsA February afternoon in 2026. In the steel cupboard of the Bangladesh Chess...
The Ledger of Training Content: Kostya Kavutskiy's Two Courses, One Reviewer, and the Missing ReceiptTwo courses. One reviewer. Zero sample games. When the announcement that...
Four Grandmasters in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: A Forensic Audit of a Headline-Body GapLast week I opened a chess report. Four names sat in the headline — So, Liang...
3.Bc4: A Claim to Beat the Sicilian, or a Weapon to Save Preparation — An Eleven-Year-Old's 2504 on Board One in SamarkandA number sits on the scoresheet: 2504. It is not the rating of a tournament...
An English Edition, a $400,000 Board — and the Story the Magazine Masthead Never PrintsThe shortest line in a press brief usually says the most. Two unrelated event...
The King's Indian Bayonet Attack: 9...a5 as 'Antidote,' and the Deception of a HeadlineLast month, at two in the morning, I was scrolling a chess news feed at my de...
A Dragon on the Cover, a Colle Inside: The 1.d4 d5 Sideline Market and the Promise of Six VideosThis month's "The Monthly Dragon" arrived, and I set my coffee down before...
The 9...a5 Promise: A Sideline Against the Bayonet Attack and the Gaps in Its LedgerI set up the board and stopped the clock. What arrived was not a game but a...
The Samarkand Ledger: Silver, Bronze, a Trophy — and the Empty Squares on Board Two1. Opening the Ledger: The Final-Round Scoresheet I folded the score sheet fr...
The Cup Stayed in Samarkand, the Crowns Did Not: India's Depth and the Arithmetic of the Gaprindashvili TrophyTwo score-sheets in Samarkand, one identical number on the final afternoon —...
A Samarkand Headline on a King's Indian Body: A Forensic Note on a Feed Error and Bangladesh's Chess EconomyLate one afternoon in Rangpur I opened a feed archive that promised a...
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: The Bayonet's 'Antidote' and an Expired Engine-Era ExcuseLast week, hunting for the round-seven results of an open tournament in...
Samarkand's Headline, the Bayonet's Body: The Ledger That Caught the Gap Between Title and TextTwo in the morning in a Dublin flat, I opened a file expecting the...
The Ledger Beneath a Perfect Score: Where India's Women's Team Weight Actually Sits at SamarkandRound six sat in my notebook as four lines, and then I sat still for three...
From Board Four to Board One: Why India's Women Are Winning From the Bottom of the ScoresheetTwo kinds of handwriting sit side by side on the round-six scoresheet, and th...