Chess
When the Game Is Not the Game: A Chess Opening-Prep Blurb Under the Microscope
Who Is Timur Turlov? The FIDE Presidency Misattribution and the Information Collapse of Chess News
The Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Carlsen-Endorsed Solution, or Another Marketing Tactic of the Content Economy?
From a Dead Draw to a Win: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Real Ledger of India's Pipeline
The Big Question Behind a 60-Minute Chess Course: Petroff or Scandinavian?A chess course is being promoted with a familiar promise: learn a system for...
Not a Chess Report but a Warning: The Trap of Inventing Stories in the Name of Analysis from an Empty Data VaultTitle: Not a Chess Report but a Warning: The Trap of Inventing Stories in the...
London, Colle, Torre, Trompowsky: Four Tests for Black After 1.d4 and the Riddle of Installment #746Last week, in the second-floor club room, I looked at a paper scoresheet wher...
When the Game Is Not the Game: A Chess Opening-Prep Blurb Under the MicroscopeEvery week the 'Game of the Week' series promises a fresh contest, annotated...
In the Shadow of the Sämisch: The Keymer System, a Title Gap, and the Real Tactical LessonWhen I watched that eighth-round move, I had no engine at hand—only an old...
Notes from an Empty Board: From Niaz to Neer — Bangladesh's Chess LedgerThe opening scene is a room in Dhaka in 2026, time control 90 minutes plus 30...
Four Hundred Thousand Dollars and an English Edition: Where Chess Capital Accumulates and Where It Dries UpIn September 2026, in the team room at the Batumi Olympiad, I handed over a...
Four Grandmasters in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: Auditing the 'Clutch Chess' Content FractureIt is two in the morning. In a Mumbai flat, nothing is lit except the laptop...
Four Names from Saint Louis, Six Videos from Bulgaria: A Ledger of a Headline That Betrays Its BodyThe headline arrived in a news feed, not on a phone call. "Clutch Chess:...
Who Is Timur Turlov? The FIDE Presidency Misattribution and the Information Collapse of Chess NewsIn the winter of 2026, sitting in a small academy room in Mymensingh, I was...
European Club Cup 2026: The Budget Sets the Favourite, the Board Order Decides the WinFour minutes before the clocks are pressed in a Budva hotel ballroom, a team...
Dortmund Trophy 2027, or a 60-Minute Scandinavian Video? A Ledger Audit of a Headline–Body MismatchMy hand stopped at the headline. Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 — a tourname...
A FIDE Headline, a Carlsen Video: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense and One Missing LedgerIt takes me seven seconds to open the file. The headline says the FIDE Genera...
The Scandinavian Defense: The Claim of Learning a Reliable Repertoire in 60 Minutes and Its RealityA 60-minute video course by International Master Andrew Martin recently claim...
The Endgame Ledger: Karsten Müller, Hamburg, and the Chapter We Never WroteThe Endgame Ledger: Karsten Müller, Hamburg, and the Chapter We Never Wrote...
The Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Carlsen-Endorsed Solution, or Another Marketing Tactic of the Content Economy?The Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Carlsen-Endorsed Solution, or Another...
The Ledger of an Empty Input: Bangladesh Chess, the Five-Grandmaster Ledger, and the Silent Death of a PipelineMay 2026. I published a 4,000-word reconstruction of Spartak Moscow's title r...
Robert Ris' Fast and Furious: The Closed Sicilian g3 Setup, a 'Model Game,' and the Quiet Gap in the TitleI stopped the moment I read the title. It said: "7.b3, the Anti-Meran system....
3.Bc4 and an Eleventh Spring: Bodhana Sivanandan's Samarkand Olympiad as a Silent BlockchainSamarkand, September 24, 2026. Before entering the Olympiad hall, I read the...