Chess
Zero Information Points in Paltan: The Autopsy of an Analysis Pipeline
From Rejected Draw to Dramatic Win: Savitha Shri B's Bold Call Keeps India's Medal Hopes Alive
One Day's Lead, Six Hours of Screen: The Clutch Chess Headline Has a Body Missing and an Advertisement Present
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Not One Move: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Is Really Selling
Revival of the Scotch Opening: Mikhalchishin's Strategic Lesson
Zero Information Points in Paltan: The Autopsy of an Analysis PipelineI sat counting the data. Every field in the document before me was empty — no...
15-Year-Old Besou Leads Bavarian Championship: What the Real Signal Is Behind Lilov's Video PromotionWhen the third-round results of the Bavarian Championship landed on my desk...
A Bavarian Lead, an Incomplete Crosstable, and the Lesson of Six VideosIt is nearly three in the morning in a room in Mymensingh. Two tabs are open ...
The Empty Board at Issue 746: The Four-Front London-Colle-Torre-Trompowsky Problem, and the Bill Nobody Writes DownThe ceiling fan in the hall was turning, but no air arrived. At Monday club...
Sämisch's Shadow, Keymer's System: The Lesson Behind Wei Yi's Mislabelled MasterclassAt the eighth round of the recent Olympiad, I looked at the board and noticed...
Chess is More Than a Game: The Story of Bangladesh's Chess RevivalI opened the folder and dust flew up, fifteen years' worth. When I saw the...
Data-Verification Discipline in Chess Reporting: Lessons from an Empty InputThis report does not describe the outcome of any specific chess event, the...
Chess Stuck in Dhaka's Grid: The Sixth Grandmaster That Never Arrived on PaperIn September 2026, in the team room at the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, I...
From Rejected Draw to Dramatic Win: Savitha Shri B's Bold Call Keeps India's Medal Hopes AliveFrom Rejected Draw to Dramatic Win: Savitha Shri B's Bold Call Keeps India's...
When the Blank Cell Becomes Data: Auditing Bangladesh Chess's Missing RecordAt a quarter to midnight on the Mumbai desk I opened a file called...
One Day's Lead, Six Hours of Screen: The Clutch Chess Headline Has a Body Missing and an Advertisement PresentThere is a page in my notebook dated October 2026. It lists twelve Bangladesh...
The Scoreline Nobody Printed: Clutch Chess Day One and a Ledger With an Empty ColumnThe headline speaks so loudly that the body has become its debtor. I opened t...
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 on the BoardBuenos Aires, 2026. Board one at the Olympiad. José Raúl Capablanca, then in...
Move Nine in the King's Indian: The 9...a5 Claim and the Data Nobody ShowedThe position on the board reads 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0...
Sixty Minutes of 'Secret Weapon': The Elephant Gambit's Promotional Promise and a Mislabeled TitleThe ceiling fan at the Purana Paltan chess hall turns slowly, and the steam...
Carlsen at 35: Fifteen Years on the Throne, Two Translation Hops, and a New Chess LedgerOn 21 October, Magnus Carlsen gave an interview to Spain's AS. A Vietnamese...
Timur Turlov's Misattribution: A Test of News IntegrityWalking along the streets of Nicosia, I wondered where the boundary between...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Not One Move: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Is Really SellingIt was nearly three in the morning in Mymensingh, and I was counting with my...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A King's Indian Antidote, or Marketing Overreach?A product page on a screen. The King's Indian Defense, Classical System, Mar...
9...a5: Auditing the King's Indian's Alternative AntidoteI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. Last month I stopped ...
Atyrau Masters: A Headline Without a Score SheetSix words of a headline, and beneath it, nothing. "Atyrau Masters: Top two...
Revival of the Scotch Opening: Mikhalchishin's Strategic LessonThe Scotch Opening was long considered a harmless and rarely played opening....