Chess
The Eight Pillars of Deep Chess Analysis: Ratings, Engines and the Reckoning of Rules
Budva's 115 Points: The European Club Cup Gap That Reads Bigger on the Table Than on the Board
Mar del Plata's 9...a5 and a Kazakhstan Headline: Auditing an Opening Ledger
From SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT: Chess Publishing Crosses a Language Border, and the $400,000 Ledger in St. Louis
The File Titled 'FIDE General Assembly 2026' Held Only Sixty Minutes of the Najdorf
The Side Roads of 1.d4 d5: Where Preparation, Not the Dragon, Is Black's Pain
A Tiebreak Headline, an Engine Advertisement: The Chess Market Growing Behind the Bavarian ChampionshipAt twelve minutes past two in the morning, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I had...
Deep Chess Analysis Stalls on Insufficient Data: No Verdict Without VerificationA second-stage deep chess analysis has concluded that no reliable sports repo...
Sindarov’s Clutch Chess Win and Narrative Pressure Before the World ChampionshipThe Clutch Chess win by Javokhir Sindarov over Hikaru Nakamura in Saint Louis...
Hong Kong Team Rapid Final's 5-1 Scoreline: Ding Liren's 'Double Triumph' and the Headline's 'Quarterfinal Exit' — Two Different Stories in One ArticleThe final scoreline read 5-1. Both legs. When I first saw that margin in the...
The Eight Pillars of Deep Chess Analysis: Ratings, Engines and the Reckoning of RulesChess is no longer merely a board game; it is a three-way contest between dat...
The Headline That Isn't True: A Misattributed FIDE President and the Quiet Crisis of Chess MediaI opened a file last week. No name, no date, just a headline — FIDE President...
A Headline That Collapses in Six Months: From a Misattributed FIDE Presidency to the Credibility Crisis of Chess JournalismThe headline stops any chess follower for a second. The FIDE President Timur...
Budva's 115 Points: The European Club Cup Gap That Reads Bigger on the Table Than on the BoardOn the wall of the hall in Budva, the round-three pairing list goes up, and t...
Total Chess's Unified Rating: What Budapest's Twelve Days Cannot Yet VerifyBudapest, 10 to 21 November 2026. Twelve days, three separate time controls —...
The Elephant's Move, Caruana's Fall, and the Quiet Ledger of the Course MarketThe sales page for the course wrote the moves like this — 1.e4.e5. A period...
The Endgame Professor: Karsten Müller, Germany's Silent Classroom, and Our Empty ShelfIn 2026, in the steel cupboard of the BCF hall at Purana Paltan, I found Niaz...
The Scotch Revival, the Missing Receipts, and a Headline That Doesn't Add UpLast Friday, at eleven at night Moscow time, I opened an archived page. The...
The Gap Between Headline and Board: The Six-Video Ad Hidden Behind US Championship NewsLast week, hunting for the ninth-round results of the US Championships, I...
The Headline That Sells Caruana, The Page That Sells a CourseIt was half past midnight. Blue laptop light in a Delhi flat, a cup of tea...
Mar del Plata's 9...a5 and a Kazakhstan Headline: Auditing an Opening LedgerThe headline said Kazakhstan. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, an official...
From SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT: Chess Publishing Crosses a Language Border, and the $400,000 Ledger in St. LouisLedger open. Two numbers placed side by side, with no direct relationship...
The File Titled 'FIDE General Assembly 2026' Held Only Sixty Minutes of the NajdorfOn an evening in February 2026, in my Khulna flat, I opened an old laptop and...
The Board the Camera Missed: Tsaghkadzor's Children, the Bayonet Attack, and the Ledger of Understanding ChessLast week, at two in the morning, in a Saint Petersburg kitchen, I was...
School Champions in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: The King's Indian Bayonet and an Incomplete RecordAt two in the morning I was scrolling a feed. A headline surfaced: from...