Chess
The Empty Square Stays Empty: The Discipline of Writing Chess News Without Evidence
Struck by Nakamura's Own Weapon: Reconstructing the Board of Sindarov's Win
Chess: The Sport of the Silent Stadium
Capablanca's Gold, a King's Indian DVD: The Gap Between Headline and Content in Chess's Information Market
A Najdorf Label, an Elephant Inside: The Record of a 60-Minute Gambit Course
Carlsen at 35: The Slow Board, the Faster Win, and a Half-Confession
The Empty Square Stays Empty: The Discipline of Writing Chess News Without EvidenceThe folder had a headline and nothing else. It was two in the morning on a...
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Identity Dispute Behind a 60-Minute Chess Opening CourseA 60-minute chess opening course carries an obvious attraction in today's...
The Elephant Gambit: A Two-Move Surprise, a Sixty-Minute Course, and an Unsettled LedgerI keep a separate page in my notebook titled 'Move Two'. Over the past three...
The Page After 2026 Is Blank: Bangladesh's Chess Gap Is Not Talent, It Is BookkeepingI keep a file called “First Moves.” One page per player, started while coveri...
Struck by Nakamura's Own Weapon: Reconstructing the Board of Sindarov's WinI still pause when I think of that moment. At the Clutch Chess event in Saint...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Real Ledger Behind a 'Simple' Repertoire Sold on Carlsen's NameStart with a number. Sixty. That's the length of a video — less than a...
Dawn Light and Dusk Shadows: The Commercial Model of Chess Training and Bangladesh's Lost PathI was sitting in a corner of the Purana Paltan chess hall. A paper cup of tea...
Wei Yi's Silent Counter to the Keymer System: A Coaching Dossier from Board Eight at the OlympiadRound eight of the Olympiad. A team match, fatigue piling up on every board. ...
Learning from the Olympiad Stage: Wei Yi's Black-Side Defence in an Instructional Release, With a Title That Raises QuestionsA newly released instructional video built around a game China's top...
Chess Is No Longer a Silent Board Game: It Is the New Center of the Global Sports EconomyChess spent most of its modern history as a quiet game: spectators sat almost...
Chess: The Game That Outgrew the Board and Became Part of the Professional Sports EconomyLast December, Singapore hosted the final of the World Chess Championship. Di...
Chess: The Sport of the Silent StadiumChess is an odd sport. Its field is a board of sixty-four squares, its...
A Final in Fujairah, an Advertisement for ChessBase: Not One Competitor Named at Chess Composition's World StageLast night, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, I was scrolling ChessBase's feed on a...
Empty Information Points, Full Boards: The Dataset of Bangladeshi Chess SilenceA table sits open in my notebook. Six fields. Five of them read N/A — no titl...
The Empty Column on the Score Sheet: Why Bangladesh's Sixth Grandmaster Is Stuck in a Budget LineFebruary 2026, seventh round of the Premier Division Chess League. On board o...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Shadow Over Budva and the Weight of FavouritesFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. Reading th...
Capablanca's Gold, a King's Indian DVD: The Gap Between Headline and Content in Chess's Information MarketLast week a club player in Delhi sent me a screenshot of an online...