Chess
Rachel Li's Headline, Martin's Body: How a National Championship Result Got Filed Inside a Sixty-Minute Advertisement
Four Names, Three Formats, One Invisible Door: What Budapest's 'Unified Rating' Proposal Left Unsaid
The Headline That Lied About Its Own Board: FIDE General Assembly 2026, the Najdorf, and a Sixty-Minute Gap
Turlov's Quote and Lilov's Six Videos: An Accounting of Chess's Education Market
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Price of an Old Engine Sentence in the Chess Market
One Plan, Seven Openings: The Arithmetic of Black's Task Against 1.d4 That Nobody Prints
ChessChess Analysis Without Evidence: Why the Original Report Is Essential to Evaluating Players, Competition and StrategyA chess report must begin with what happened on the board. Which players...
ChessThe Knight in the Unopened Folder: A 60-Minute Video, South Asia's First Grandmaster, and Bangladesh's Lost PipelineI opened a folder no one had opened in years. Summer 2026, Delhi. Every scree...
ChessTotal Chess's 'Unified Rating' Plan: Three Unanswered Questions Before the Budapest PilotA news brief dated August 29, 2026, claims that a new circuit called 'Total...
ChessA Tk 11 Lakh Budget and Seventeen Blank Years: Auditing Bangladesh's Grandmaster DroughtIf the title must rest on a single number, it is this: after Niaz Murshed...
ChessA Major Gap in the Chess Opening-Product Market: Two Different Openings and a Pile of Unproven Claims Behind the Name 'Chigorin Defence'Summary A short-form instructional chess product from the commercial...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Inside the Headline There Is No Chess, Only a Magazine AdvertisementThere is one line of news in the announcement for ChessBase Magazine issue 22...
ChessReading an Empty File: Where News and Silence Blur in Bangladeshi ChessA December night in 2026. A round of the National Chess Championship has just...
ChessRachel Li's Headline, Martin's Body: How a National Championship Result Got Filed Inside a Sixty-Minute AdvertisementThe headline arrived in a single line: “Rachel Li stunningly wins the US...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Neiksans on the Cover, Martin Inside"The notebook says one thing; the tape says another." I wrote that line in...
ChessFour Names, Three Formats, One Invisible Door: What Budapest's 'Unified Rating' Proposal Left UnsaidLate August in Delhi. Rain outside, the laptop fan inside. A press release...
ChessShenzhen Masters: Ding Liren's Defeat and the Post-World Championship CrisisShenzhen Masters: Ding Liren's Defeat and the Post-World Championship Crisis ...
ChessA Tournament in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Trap in Chess's Theory MarketAt two in the morning I typed three words into the search bar — Vlastimil Hor...
ChessThe Headline That Lied About Its Own Board: FIDE General Assembly 2026, the Najdorf, and a Sixty-Minute GapA file sits open in front of me. At the top it reads: "Main decisions of the...
ChessTurlov's Quote and Lilov's Six Videos: An Accounting of Chess's Education MarketA name in the headline, another man's product in the body — that gap is where...
ChessFIDE in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Forensic Audit of a 60-Minute Product Page and One Unverified ClaimHook A document opened, and the file stopped me. The top line read: Timur...
ChessSamarkand R7: A Headline With No Board, Only an AdvertisementNovember 2026. The BCF hall in Purana Paltan, the second shelf of a steel...
ChessSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point — and the Anatomy of a HeadlineSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point — and the Anatomy of...
ChessSamarkand R7: One Match Point, Zero BoardsA Headline That Never Watched the Match At half past two in the morning, a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Price of an Old Engine Sentence in the Chess MarketTen past three in the morning. The table lamp in a Mymensingh bedroom, a lapt...