Chess
The Title Said October 2026, the Body Said 2026: The 'FIDE Ratings' File That Was Never a Ratings List
The Sword of Damocles: Thirteen Claims, Zero Games — The Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Father's Gamble, a Reserve Board's Triumph, and the Fault Line in Chess Economics
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Lesson: The Ledger of Thirteen Data Points
Chess Reporting Stalled by Missing Data: Failed Extraction Blocks Meaningful AnalysisA reliable chess report begins with a simple requirement: establish what...
The Information Gap in Chess Analysis: The Risk of Reporting Without EvidenceA professional chess report begins with verifiable evidence. Game moves, play...
Petroff or Scandinavian: The Crack Inside a Video Page and What It Really Costs Bangladesh's Chess MarketOne Page, Two Openings Last week I opened a chess video sales page and sat in...
A 15-Year-Old Bavarian Lead and an Instructional Video Wrap: How a Regional Result Falls into the Overvaluation TrapOn a March afternoon, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, a short headline surfaced o...
Opening the 2026 File: Five Grandmasters and a Tk 11 Lakh LedgerThere is a spreadsheet on my laptop simply named "2026". I opened it nine yea...
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final: One Headline, Another Story in the BodyThe emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates is set to host the WFCC...
From Niaz to Neer: Bangladesh Chess's Pipeline, Funding, and the Arithmetic of a Long WaitIn a hall in Purana Paltan, Dhaka, Ziaur Rahman sat on one side of a table. I...
Before You Buy Calculation: A New FritzTrainer Course and Bangladesh's Old PipelineLast night, in my room in Mymensingh, I opened an old game file — a middlegam...
5.e5: The Ledger of One Move, the Traps of Three RepliesThe childhood habit never left. Before any move I count first — how many pawn...
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: The Tsaghkadzor Gap and the Unfinished Ledger of 9...a5Two Documents in One File That evening, in a flat in Moscow, I opened a file...
2731: Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Ledger, and the Record FIDE Has Not Yet StampedMumbai, 2:47 a.m. When I opened the Turkish Chess Federation's statement, the...
The Title Said October 2026, the Body Said 2026: The 'FIDE Ratings' File That Was Never a Ratings ListIn the second week of October a file landed in my inbox. The header read "FID...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Quote: The Anti-London Repertoire and Chess's Unequal LedgerSix videos. Seven opening families. And one sentence — “Chess is massively...
The Elephant Gambit Is on Sale; a Record Claim About an Eleven-Year-Old Sits in the HeadlineEarly this month I opened a chess training publisher's product page. The habi...
Where 3.5–0.5 Says Nothing: Samarkand's Table, India's Boys, and the Weight of the Lower BoardsThe numbers lit up on the round-ten scoreboard in Samarkand: 3.5, 0.5. It was...