Chess
Five-Hour Boards, a 35-Year-Old Heart: What One Carlsen Sentence Actually Admits
One Result, One Advertisement: What the Liang–Niemann Headline Ledger Does Not Record
The Advertisement of a Sicilian Brilliancy: The Market Nobody Reads Behind Issue 225
The Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Unfinished Audit of 5.e5!
Gukesh's Houdini, India's Gold Trail: The Round 9 Ledger at Samarkand
The Modern Italian's 5.e5! Strike: Evidence, Promotion and the Missing Denominator
ChessChess Analysis Confronts a Data Vacuum: When the Core of the Report Is MissingModern chess journalism is no longer a matter of simply reporting results. Ov...
ChessFive-Hour Boards, a 35-Year-Old Heart: What One Carlsen Sentence Actually AdmitsHook On 21 October 2026, in a long conversation with Spain's AS newspaper,...
ChessThe Signing-Window Ledger: Counting Who Bought Which Board in the Premier Division Chess LeagueThe Premier Division Chess League closed its 2026 signing window at the end o...
ChessThe Scotch Revival, Munich 2026, and the Board's Invisible BillThe Scotch Revival, Munich 2026, and the Board's Invisible Bill That Line on...
ChessOne Result, One Advertisement: What the Liang–Niemann Headline Ledger Does Not RecordA headline landed on my desk last night — "Liang beat Niemann in Round 1 of t...
ChessOne Headline, Another Body: Chess Media's Advertorial Fracture and the Club Player's Real GapI opened the page at my Bangalore desk on a transfer-window morning. The...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5, the Danger Is Not the Dragon — It Is the Prep GapThe board was on move twelve. The clock said the higher-rated player was...
ChessLedger No. 225: Prague's Scoresheet, Saint Louis's Headline — and the Gap Nobody ReadsLast Thursday, around eleven at night, I sat down at my desk in Bangalore,...
ChessSix Videos, One Quote, and Chess's Unfinished LedgerLast month, past two in the morning in a Delhi flat, I was scrolling a...
ChessThe DVD, 9...a5 and Zero Data: An Audit of the Bayonet Attack ‘Antidote’At the seven-minute mark of the promo video, the presenter said computers oft...
ChessThe Advertisement of a Sicilian Brilliancy: The Market Nobody Reads Behind Issue 225The headline misspells the opening it is selling. Sicilan — one letter short....
Chess5.e5!: The Modern Italian Branch, Erigaisi's Board, and the Arithmetic Nobody Audits at Club LevelHalf past eleven at night. A club-level game sits open on one screen, both...
ChessThe Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Unfinished Audit of 5.e5!24 February, Tuesday, Bengaluru. In a club room in Indiranagar, on board two,...
ChessGukesh's Houdini, India's Gold Trail: The Round 9 Ledger at SamarkandRound 9 of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand will be remembered as Gukesh'...
ChessThe Modern Italian's 5.e5! Strike: Evidence, Promotion and the Missing DenominatorThe Board, Four Moves, and the Blow at Number Five I laid the board out, and...
ChessFive-Hour Boards, a 35-Year-Old Heart: What One Carlsen Sentence Actually AdmitsHook On 21 October 2026, in a long conversation with Spain's AS newspaper,...
ChessThe Signing-Window Ledger: Counting Who Bought Which Board in the Premier Division Chess LeagueThe Premier Division Chess League closed its 2026 signing window at the end o...
ChessThe Scotch Revival, Munich 2026, and the Board's Invisible BillThe Scotch Revival, Munich 2026, and the Board's Invisible Bill That Line on...
ChessOne Result, One Advertisement: What the Liang–Niemann Headline Ledger Does Not RecordA headline landed on my desk last night — "Liang beat Niemann in Round 1 of t...
ChessOne Headline, Another Body: Chess Media's Advertorial Fracture and the Club Player's Real GapI opened the page at my Bangalore desk on a transfer-window morning. The...
ChessAfter 1.d4 d5, the Danger Is Not the Dragon — It Is the Prep GapThe board was on move twelve. The clock said the higher-rated player was...
ChessLedger No. 225: Prague's Scoresheet, Saint Louis's Headline — and the Gap Nobody ReadsLast Thursday, around eleven at night, I sat down at my desk in Bangalore,...
ChessSix Videos, One Quote, and Chess's Unfinished LedgerLast month, past two in the morning in a Delhi flat, I was scrolling a...
ChessThe DVD, 9...a5 and Zero Data: An Audit of the Bayonet Attack ‘Antidote’At the seven-minute mark of the promo video, the presenter said computers oft...
ChessThe Advertisement of a Sicilian Brilliancy: The Market Nobody Reads Behind Issue 225The headline misspells the opening it is selling. Sicilan — one letter short....
Chess5.e5!: The Modern Italian Branch, Erigaisi's Board, and the Arithmetic Nobody Audits at Club LevelHalf past eleven at night. A club-level game sits open on one screen, both...
ChessThe Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Unfinished Audit of 5.e5!24 February, Tuesday, Bengaluru. In a club room in Indiranagar, on board two,...
ChessGukesh's Houdini, India's Gold Trail: The Round 9 Ledger at SamarkandRound 9 of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand will be remembered as Gukesh'...
ChessThe Modern Italian's 5.e5! Strike: Evidence, Promotion and the Missing DenominatorThe Board, Four Moves, and the Blow at Number Five I laid the board out, and...