Chess
The 60-Minute Chess Opening Promise: Petroff or Scandinavian, Which Course Is Actually Being Offered?2026-11-08A 60-minute video is an attractive proposition in chess opening preparation....
Empty Board, Empty Ledger: The Archive That Forgets Its Own History2026-11-01A morning last January. The second-floor hall of the federation building in...
The Dataset of Silence: 41 National Championships, 1,240 Games, and One Empty Folder2026-10-25One February morning I opened a folder on my laptop. Inside were 41...
Magnus Carlsen's Admission: At 35, Long-Game Endurance Has Declined; Humans Are 'Not That Good' in the AI Era2026-10-22On a Wednesday night in a Budapest hotel room, I opened the file by Vietnames...
Chess Diplomacy or Content Trap? The Misattributed FIDE President and a Publishing Failure Behind FRITZ 202026-10-21A meeting room in Nicosia, two chairs on either side, a board in the middle —...
The Ledger of Silence: How an Empty Spreadsheet Halts Bangladesh Chess AnalysisI am Mehedi Khan, 61, covering Bangladesh chess from Mumbai. In 2026, after 2...
Ledger Open: 8.5/11, $45,000, and a Headline That Doesn't Match Its BodyA file landed on my desk last week. The headline read: 11-year-old Shogdzhiev...
Vietnam Claim Chess Olympiad Group B Gold as Young Generation Passes a Test of DepthVietnam's men's team secured the Group B title at the 2026 FIDE Chess Olympia...
The 60-Minute Chess Opening Promise: Petroff or Scandinavian, Which Course Is Actually Being Offered?A 60-minute video is an attractive proposition in chess opening preparation....
The Keymer System Label, Wei Yi's Silent Defence: An Audit of a Model GameOn October 15, 2026, I picked up the promotional description of a chess...
A Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Sales Page: The Final That Named No CompetitorThe headline landed on my phone screen at 1:40 in the morning: Fujairah will...
The Contradiction Behind the Title: Chigorin Defence and the Italian 5.e5 — A Deep Review of a Chess Repertoire ProductIntroduction: One Review, Two Different Worlds In sports journalism it is not...
Empty Board, Empty Ledger: The Archive That Forgets Its Own HistoryA morning last January. The second-floor hall of the federation building in...
Why 9...a5 Sells: The Bayonet 'Antidote', a Wrong Title, and the Ledger of a Dhaka Club BoardA club rapid in Dhanmondi, sixth round, board three. A young player rated in...
A 4-0 Without a Move: The Clock That Never Started in SamarkandThe scoreboard reads like any 4-0 defeat. Four boards, zero points, four full...
The Champions Have Been Announced; the Result Has Not ArrivedOn Monday morning, the first sentence that met me when I opened the laptop on...
Two Clubs, No Scoreboard: When a Championship Headline Sells a MagazineA late afternoon in 2026. The Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana Palt...
The Dataset of Silence: 41 National Championships, 1,240 Games, and One Empty FolderOne February morning I opened a folder on my laptop. Inside were 41...
Magnus Carlsen's Admission: At 35, Long-Game Endurance Has Declined; Humans Are 'Not That Good' in the AI EraOn a Wednesday night in a Budapest hotel room, I opened the file by Vietnames...
The Wrong Name in Nicosia: FIDE President, Patron, and the Diagnosis of Bangladesh's Chess CrisisI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
Chess Diplomacy or Content Trap? The Misattributed FIDE President and a Publishing Failure Behind FRITZ 20A meeting room in Nicosia, two chairs on either side, a board in the middle —...
Neiksans in the Headline, Martin on the Page: The Sixty-Minute Repertoire and the Question Nobody AskedEight information points, read twice. The headline says: from quitting chess ...
The Benko Gambit and the 'Full Repertoire' — Chess Analysis Hollowed Out Inside a Product WrapperThere is nothing new in the chess economy of the blockchain era; what is new ...
9...a5: In the Bayonet Era, Black's Move That Targets Memory, Not the EngineA board at the Premier Division Chess League in Dhaka. White plays 9.b4 in fo...
A US Championship Headline, A Course Advert Body: Auditing the Elephant Gambit PitchThe newsletter opened with two names — Woodward, Caruana. The headline said...
Ding Liren vs Yu Yangyi: When the Shenzhen Result Is the Least Important FactWhen the last move landed on the board in Shenzhen, there was no roar in the...
Forty Squares, One Missing Champion: Yu Yangyi and the Late-Game Ledger of Ding Liren in ShenzhenIn the steel cupboard at Purana Paltan, the coffee ring from 2026 has long...
So and Liang in the Headline, Lilov's Six Videos in the Body: Chess News, or a Packaging Trap?Last night, in my Mymensingh bedroom, I paused the stream on a secondhand...
Ledger Open: 8.5/11, $45,000, and a Headline That Doesn't Match Its BodyA file landed on my desk last week. The headline read: 11-year-old Shogdzhiev...
Vietnam Claim Chess Olympiad Group B Gold as Young Generation Passes a Test of DepthVietnam's men's team secured the Group B title at the 2026 FIDE Chess Olympia...
The 60-Minute Chess Opening Promise: Petroff or Scandinavian, Which Course Is Actually Being Offered?A 60-minute video is an attractive proposition in chess opening preparation....
The Keymer System Label, Wei Yi's Silent Defence: An Audit of a Model GameOn October 15, 2026, I picked up the promotional description of a chess...
A Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Sales Page: The Final That Named No CompetitorThe headline landed on my phone screen at 1:40 in the morning: Fujairah will...
The Contradiction Behind the Title: Chigorin Defence and the Italian 5.e5 — A Deep Review of a Chess Repertoire ProductIntroduction: One Review, Two Different Worlds In sports journalism it is not...
Empty Board, Empty Ledger: The Archive That Forgets Its Own HistoryA morning last January. The second-floor hall of the federation building in...
Why 9...a5 Sells: The Bayonet 'Antidote', a Wrong Title, and the Ledger of a Dhaka Club BoardA club rapid in Dhanmondi, sixth round, board three. A young player rated in...
A 4-0 Without a Move: The Clock That Never Started in SamarkandThe scoreboard reads like any 4-0 defeat. Four boards, zero points, four full...
The Champions Have Been Announced; the Result Has Not ArrivedOn Monday morning, the first sentence that met me when I opened the laptop on...
Two Clubs, No Scoreboard: When a Championship Headline Sells a MagazineA late afternoon in 2026. The Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana Palt...
The Dataset of Silence: 41 National Championships, 1,240 Games, and One Empty FolderOne February morning I opened a folder on my laptop. Inside were 41...
Magnus Carlsen's Admission: At 35, Long-Game Endurance Has Declined; Humans Are 'Not That Good' in the AI EraOn a Wednesday night in a Budapest hotel room, I opened the file by Vietnames...
The Wrong Name in Nicosia: FIDE President, Patron, and the Diagnosis of Bangladesh's Chess CrisisI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
Chess Diplomacy or Content Trap? The Misattributed FIDE President and a Publishing Failure Behind FRITZ 20A meeting room in Nicosia, two chairs on either side, a board in the middle —...
Neiksans in the Headline, Martin on the Page: The Sixty-Minute Repertoire and the Question Nobody AskedEight information points, read twice. The headline says: from quitting chess ...
The Benko Gambit and the 'Full Repertoire' — Chess Analysis Hollowed Out Inside a Product WrapperThere is nothing new in the chess economy of the blockchain era; what is new ...
9...a5: In the Bayonet Era, Black's Move That Targets Memory, Not the EngineA board at the Premier Division Chess League in Dhaka. White plays 9.b4 in fo...
A US Championship Headline, A Course Advert Body: Auditing the Elephant Gambit PitchThe newsletter opened with two names — Woodward, Caruana. The headline said...
Ding Liren vs Yu Yangyi: When the Shenzhen Result Is the Least Important FactWhen the last move landed on the board in Shenzhen, there was no roar in the...
Forty Squares, One Missing Champion: Yu Yangyi and the Late-Game Ledger of Ding Liren in ShenzhenIn the steel cupboard at Purana Paltan, the coffee ring from 2026 has long...
So and Liang in the Headline, Lilov's Six Videos in the Body: Chess News, or a Packaging Trap?Last night, in my Mymensingh bedroom, I paused the stream on a secondhand...