Chess
Sixty Minutes of Defence: The Scandinavian Market and a Headline Pointing Elsewhere
When the Title and the Board Take Different Paths: Closed Sicilian g3, the Price of Surprise, and the Gap in Coaching
The Headline That Names Bent Larsen, and the Pages That Don't
A Sicilian Hook With Zero Moves: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Content Market
India's Golden Boards, Bangladesh's Empty Halls: Reading the Chess Olympiad Ledger
Rachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defense in the Body: How a National Championship Vanished Inside a 60-Minute VideoI opened the file to count one thing. The headline said Rachel Li had...
Sixty Minutes of Defence: The Scandinavian Market and a Headline Pointing ElsewhereLast month, sitting beside the boards at a club-level Swiss tournament in...
Mar del Plata and the Seconds' Clock: The Practical Test of 9...a5At 2 a.m. in a Delhi flat I opened one board. On screen, the King's Indian...
A 2027 Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy Headline With No Tournament Inside: The 60-Minute Scandinavian DefenseLast week I opened the file and counted first. The headline read Dortmund...
A Weapon to Avoid Theory, or a Mirror of Preparation: Closed Sicilian's g2-g3 and the UzChess Cup LessonOne piece, one square. Before a White player even sits down, a decision is...
When the Title and the Board Take Different Paths: Closed Sicilian g3, the Price of Surprise, and the Gap in CoachingThe episode of Robert Ris' "Fast and Furious" series carries a title that...
From SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT: A $400,000 Board and an Empty Screen in MymensinghLast night, in my room in Mymensingh, I paused the stream. In the hall in Sai...
The Headline That Names Bent Larsen, and the Pages That Don'tLast week I opened a folder no one had opened in years. Inside was a single...
A FIDE General Assembly Headline, a 60-Minute Najdorf Body: Notes on a Broken RecordSix-ten in the evening. Rain on the glass of a Khulna flat, and in the laptop...
The Sidelines After 1.d4 d5: Six Videos, Seven Systems, and the Gap in a HeadlineThe headline says one thing. The contents page says another. The headline rea...
Six Videos and One Quote: The Real Ledger Behind Chess's 'Undervalued' MarketI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In June 2026, sitting...
A New Serpent in the Mar del Plaza GardenA New Serpent in the Mar del Plaza Garden In 2026, I was reading a product...
A Sicilian Hook With Zero Moves: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Content MarketThe first thing I noticed when the page loaded was not a move. It was a...
India's Golden Boards, Bangladesh's Empty Halls: Reading the Chess Olympiad LedgerThere is a number on the Budapest score sheet I counted three times: 10/11 on...
Chess Olympiad Round 9: This Was Not a Gukesh 'Houdini', It Was Board-Four ArithmeticGukesh D had seven minutes on his clock, and the other three boards had long...
Seven Wins for Savitha Shri, and the Three Years Left in Her Father's Bank AccountThe Thursday round at the ongoing Samarkand Olympiad took almost five hours t...
Issue 225, 27 Miniatures and Tk 11 Lakh: Dhaka's Ledger in the Training MarketOne. The file name said one thing; the contents said another At half past...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and the Arithmetic the Blurb Leaves OutLast week at the academy in Mymensingh, a student stopped me mid-sentence: si...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: How a Samarkand Result Got Buried Under a Course PageI read the headline about Samarkand's eighth round three times. It said Germa...
"Chess Is Something Magic" in the Headline, Six Videos Inside: Where Did Turlov Go in Lilov's Course Ad?"Chess is something magic": An interview with Timur Turlov. The headline sent...
Sixty Minutes of Defence: The Scandinavian Market and a Headline Pointing ElsewhereLast month, sitting beside the boards at a club-level Swiss tournament in...
Mar del Plata and the Seconds' Clock: The Practical Test of 9...a5At 2 a.m. in a Delhi flat I opened one board. On screen, the King's Indian...
A 2027 Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy Headline With No Tournament Inside: The 60-Minute Scandinavian DefenseLast week I opened the file and counted first. The headline read Dortmund...
A Weapon to Avoid Theory, or a Mirror of Preparation: Closed Sicilian's g2-g3 and the UzChess Cup LessonOne piece, one square. Before a White player even sits down, a decision is...
When the Title and the Board Take Different Paths: Closed Sicilian g3, the Price of Surprise, and the Gap in CoachingThe episode of Robert Ris' "Fast and Furious" series carries a title that...
From SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT: A $400,000 Board and an Empty Screen in MymensinghLast night, in my room in Mymensingh, I paused the stream. In the hall in Sai...
The Headline That Names Bent Larsen, and the Pages That Don'tLast week I opened a folder no one had opened in years. Inside was a single...
A FIDE General Assembly Headline, a 60-Minute Najdorf Body: Notes on a Broken RecordSix-ten in the evening. Rain on the glass of a Khulna flat, and in the laptop...
The Sidelines After 1.d4 d5: Six Videos, Seven Systems, and the Gap in a HeadlineThe headline says one thing. The contents page says another. The headline rea...
Six Videos and One Quote: The Real Ledger Behind Chess's 'Undervalued' MarketI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In June 2026, sitting...
A New Serpent in the Mar del Plaza GardenA New Serpent in the Mar del Plaza Garden In 2026, I was reading a product...
A Sicilian Hook With Zero Moves: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess Content MarketThe first thing I noticed when the page loaded was not a move. It was a...
India's Golden Boards, Bangladesh's Empty Halls: Reading the Chess Olympiad LedgerThere is a number on the Budapest score sheet I counted three times: 10/11 on...
Chess Olympiad Round 9: This Was Not a Gukesh 'Houdini', It Was Board-Four ArithmeticGukesh D had seven minutes on his clock, and the other three boards had long...
Seven Wins for Savitha Shri, and the Three Years Left in Her Father's Bank AccountThe Thursday round at the ongoing Samarkand Olympiad took almost five hours t...
Issue 225, 27 Miniatures and Tk 11 Lakh: Dhaka's Ledger in the Training MarketOne. The file name said one thing; the contents said another At half past...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and the Arithmetic the Blurb Leaves OutLast week at the academy in Mymensingh, a student stopped me mid-sentence: si...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: How a Samarkand Result Got Buried Under a Course PageI read the headline about Samarkand's eighth round three times. It said Germa...
"Chess Is Something Magic" in the Headline, Six Videos Inside: Where Did Turlov Go in Lilov's Course Ad?"Chess is something magic": An interview with Timur Turlov. The headline sent...