Chess
The Empty Square: Bangladesh's Seventeen Unrecorded Years
From Dusk till Dawn: Prague's Forty Squares, ChessBase Magazine #225, and Our Empty Hall
Samarkand in the Headline, a Scandinavian Course on the Page: Who Is the Witness in Chess's Information Market?
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Uneven Prep Load Nobody Discloses to Black
The Empty Square: Bangladesh's Seventeen Unrecorded YearsA December afternoon in the BCF hall at Purana Paltan. Round six is over, the...
Magnus Carlsen's Confession: 'AI Shows Humans Are Not That Good at Chess' — But What Do the Numbers Say?Late Wednesday night, in a hotel room in Budapest, I was leafing through an o...
A Türkiye Triumph in the Headline, a Najdorf DVD in the Body: An Autopsy of a Data-Integrity FailureLast week I opened a file whose headline read: “Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye...
Dortmund Trophy 2027 in the Headline, a Scandinavian Video on the Board: A Ledger of One MismatchHold on, just for one headline. "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027." Read it an...
Two Courses, One Empty Room: Kavutskiy in ChessBase's Training Market23...Nd7. I was tagging a Premier Division League game in that small Mymensin...
Caruana's 'Fifth Title' and Lilov's Course: Two Universes on One PageHook Last week, scrolling through chess news, I stopped at a page. The headli...
3.Bc4, Eleven Years and 2504: A Verification Ledger from Board One in Samarkand"Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4—seriously?" When that headline surfaced, my...
Board 1 in Samarkand: 2504 at Eleven, and a Headline That Says More Than the ScoresheetThe line on the scoresheet is short. In the team standings at Samarkand,...
From Dusk till Dawn: Prague's Forty Squares, ChessBase Magazine #225, and Our Empty HallThe steel cupboard in the BCF building at Purana Paltan still stands; inside...
A Bent Larsen Invoice With No Larsen Move in the Receipt: The Economics of Chess Publishing and the Market for Opening TheoryFourteen information points. A press notice and a table of contents — beyond...
The 2,731 Ledger: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Olympiad, a Single-Source Record, and a Verification Still PendingThe 2,731 Ledger: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Olympiad, a Single-Source Record, and...
From Paltan Heartbeats to Blockchain Ledger: The Information-Injury of a Scotch Course Under a FIDE Ratings Title and the Diagnosis of the Chess SystemI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
Budapest 2026: India's First Chess Olympiad Gold, and the Ledger Still Blank at Purana PaltanOn the night of September 22, 2026, a printout lay on my desk in Khulna. It w...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Scandinavian Course on the Page: Who Is the Witness in Chess's Information Market?Late last Thursday, scrolling a feed from my flat in Saint Petersburg, a...
Samarkand Round 7: An Advertisement Board Sat Next to the ScoreboardThe headline was short and looked trustworthy because it carried numbers. At...
9...a5 — The Headline Says Samarkand, the Body Sells a DVDHook In September 2026, I travelled with Bangladesh's open team as coaching...
Samarkand Round 7, a DVD, and the Stale Arithmetic of the Engine EraLast week I clicked a link. The headline came straight out of Samarkand —...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Uneven Prep Load Nobody Discloses to BlackHook It is half past two in the morning in a Boston apartment, and I am stari...
A Samarkand Headline, a Mar del Plata Body: The DVD That Walks the Market in a Tournament's MaskLast Thursday night in Delhi the AC was dead, the tea had gone cold, and a li...
An Anti-Scotch Course Ad, and a Phantom Name in the HeadlineA page arrived in front of me. The headline read "Egon Mattaaq: His tournamen...
Samarkand's Eight-Name Line: Parity After Four Rounds, or a Ledger of Unconverted WinsIn Samarkand the score sheet after Round 4 carries eight names on one line. N...
Magnus Carlsen's Confession: 'AI Shows Humans Are Not That Good at Chess' — But What Do the Numbers Say?Late Wednesday night, in a hotel room in Budapest, I was leafing through an o...
A Türkiye Triumph in the Headline, a Najdorf DVD in the Body: An Autopsy of a Data-Integrity FailureLast week I opened a file whose headline read: “Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye...
Dortmund Trophy 2027 in the Headline, a Scandinavian Video on the Board: A Ledger of One MismatchHold on, just for one headline. "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027." Read it an...
Two Courses, One Empty Room: Kavutskiy in ChessBase's Training Market23...Nd7. I was tagging a Premier Division League game in that small Mymensin...
Caruana's 'Fifth Title' and Lilov's Course: Two Universes on One PageHook Last week, scrolling through chess news, I stopped at a page. The headli...
3.Bc4, Eleven Years and 2504: A Verification Ledger from Board One in Samarkand"Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4—seriously?" When that headline surfaced, my...
Board 1 in Samarkand: 2504 at Eleven, and a Headline That Says More Than the ScoresheetThe line on the scoresheet is short. In the team standings at Samarkand,...
From Dusk till Dawn: Prague's Forty Squares, ChessBase Magazine #225, and Our Empty HallThe steel cupboard in the BCF building at Purana Paltan still stands; inside...
A Bent Larsen Invoice With No Larsen Move in the Receipt: The Economics of Chess Publishing and the Market for Opening TheoryFourteen information points. A press notice and a table of contents — beyond...
The 2,731 Ledger: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Olympiad, a Single-Source Record, and a Verification Still PendingThe 2,731 Ledger: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Olympiad, a Single-Source Record, and...
From Paltan Heartbeats to Blockchain Ledger: The Information-Injury of a Scotch Course Under a FIDE Ratings Title and the Diagnosis of the Chess SystemI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
Budapest 2026: India's First Chess Olympiad Gold, and the Ledger Still Blank at Purana PaltanOn the night of September 22, 2026, a printout lay on my desk in Khulna. It w...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Scandinavian Course on the Page: Who Is the Witness in Chess's Information Market?Late last Thursday, scrolling a feed from my flat in Saint Petersburg, a...
Samarkand Round 7: An Advertisement Board Sat Next to the ScoreboardThe headline was short and looked trustworthy because it carried numbers. At...
9...a5 — The Headline Says Samarkand, the Body Sells a DVDHook In September 2026, I travelled with Bangladesh's open team as coaching...
Samarkand Round 7, a DVD, and the Stale Arithmetic of the Engine EraLast week I clicked a link. The headline came straight out of Samarkand —...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Uneven Prep Load Nobody Discloses to BlackHook It is half past two in the morning in a Boston apartment, and I am stari...
A Samarkand Headline, a Mar del Plata Body: The DVD That Walks the Market in a Tournament's MaskLast Thursday night in Delhi the AC was dead, the tea had gone cold, and a li...
An Anti-Scotch Course Ad, and a Phantom Name in the HeadlineA page arrived in front of me. The headline read "Egon Mattaaq: His tournamen...
Samarkand's Eight-Name Line: Parity After Four Rounds, or a Ledger of Unconverted WinsIn Samarkand the score sheet after Round 4 carries eight names on one line. N...