Chess
The Ledger of an Empty Board: When a Chess Report Arrives With Zero Facts2026-11-09In the last week of August 2026, the final of the FIDE Online Olympiad ended...
The Hour of the Seconds: The 9...a5 Ledger and a DVD's Oversold Promise2026-10-19The package opened not with a game analysis but with a title: "The hour of th...
There Was a Headline, Not a Move: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Incomplete Ledger of the Atyrau Masters2026-10-16A single sentence in the release note for the 225th issue of ChessBase Magazi...
The Title Said Samarkand, the File Said ChessBase #225: Accounting for a Metadata Gap2026-09-26Mumbai, half past midnight. A file lands on the laptop. The title reads:...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Father's Sacrifice or a Fragile Chess Economy?2026-09-26Thursday evening in Samarkand: the clock had crossed five hours when...
The Ledger of an Empty Board: When a Chess Report Arrives With Zero FactsIn the last week of August 2026, the final of the FIDE Online Olympiad ended...
Missing Source Data Blocks Chess Report: Why Verification Must Come Before AnalysisThe production of a comprehensive chess report begins with one essential...
Mikhalchishin Dispels Scotch Opening Fear, But Why Fischer in the Title?The title says Bobby Fischer, the body says Scotch Opening. The product being...
A New Balance in Chess: Gukesh's Rise, Carlsen's Absence, and the Changing CalculusIn December 2026, in a hotel hall in Singapore, Dommaraju Gukesh of India...
Novy Bor Are ‘Perfect’—But Nobody Wrote After How Many Rounds, or Against WhomA report on the European Club Cup reached me last week. The headline promised...
The Hour of the Seconds: The 9...a5 Ledger and a DVD's Oversold PromiseThe package opened not with a game analysis but with a title: "The hour of th...
From Miniatures to Magazine: The Economics of Chess Knowledge ProductionStanding beside the grandmaster hall at last year's Prague chess festival,...
Club Cup on the Cover, a Sales Catalogue Inside: The Empty Squares of ChessBase 225I opened page 225 of ChessBase Magazine expecting to see games from the...
Sixty Minutes, One Wrong Headline, and the Club Player's ArithmeticAround eleven at night last Thursday I opened a page on an old laptop in a...
The Elephant Gambit: An Opening Economy Hidden Behind a HeadlineI looked up from the console in the radio studio and saw it was eleven at...
There Was a Headline, Not a Move: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Incomplete Ledger of the Atyrau MastersA single sentence in the release note for the 225th issue of ChessBase Magazi...
Controversy Surrounds FIDE General Assembly Resolution on Shorter Time Controls Amid Headline Mismatch with Mysterious Scandinavian Defense VideoA controversy has erupted in international chess circles over a headline...
FIDE General Assembly Short Time Control Proposal Controversy and the Misleading Headline of a Scandinavian Defense VideoRecently, a significant event has occurred in the chess world. FIDE's General...
The Art of Avoiding Theory: Robert Ris, the Closed Sicilian and the Real Lesson of a 'Model' GameOn a chessboard, the boldest decision often looks the most innocent. g2-g3. O...