Chess
Behind Sasikiran’s Tiebreak Win: FRITZ 20 Faces a Bigger Test Than Its Claims
FRITZ 20's Advertisement, Bavaria's Tiebreak, and the CD in Our Steel Cupboard
9...a5 Against the King's Indian Bayonet: A DVD, a Preparation Market, and a Missing Evidence File
The Missing King and the Load Autopsy of 5 e5!
Behind Sasikiran’s Tiebreak Win: FRITZ 20 Faces a Bigger Test Than Its ClaimsThis report is based on the supplied analysis. The source material does not...
FRITZ 20's Advertisement, Bavaria's Tiebreak, and the CD in Our Steel CupboardI opened the steel cupboard in the Federation hall at Purana Paltan on an...
Where Is the Chess Story? Eight Dimensions of Analysis Stalled by Missing EvidenceA single inaccurate move on the chessboard can determine the outcome several...
Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon or a Theoretical Risk? Examining the 60-Minute Chess Repertoire CourseThe Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon or a Theoretical Risk? Examining the...
5.e5!: The Sacrifice with Which Erigaisi Opens a New Door in the Italian Game for Club PlayersWhen the position flashed on my scanner, only ten minutes had passed on the...
Episode 745 Was Headlined Giri vs Abdusattorov; Inside Were Six Videos for SaleThe headline was explicit: Giri vs Abdusattorov, Game of the Week, Episode 74...
The Title Says King's Indian Attack, All 15 Information Points Describe the Defence — Auditing an Opening DVD's LedgerI opened an opening-DVD product page last week and, out of old habit, took ou...
A Headline Without a Body: Rachel Li, the Scandinavian Defense, and the Silent Injury of Chess PublishingA headline announces that Rachel Li has stunningly won the US Women's...
27 Miniatures, Zero Moves: What ChessBase Magazine #225's Promo Page Refuses to CountLast night I opened ChessBase's promotional page for its new issue with a...
The Headline Says Dortmund 2027; the Body Sells a 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense VideoTwelve information points. I counted them one by one, because the first thing...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit, Caruana's Fall, and Chess's Silent LedgerA Saint Petersburg winter evening. Fog gathers on the Neva beyond my window,...
The Scotch Revival, a False Headline, and the Arithmetic of Our Own LedgerThe first frame of a video and a headline that have nothing to do with each...
You Can Buy a Course; You Cannot Buy a PipelineThree things sit on my work table in Rangpur: a hand-drawn board grid, a...
The Wednesday Board: From Hamburg to Amsterdam, and the Ledger of an Invisible InfrastructureIn a small room in Amsterdam, at eight on a Wednesday evening, a screen light...
Ledger of Silence: A Data Journalist Reads the Empty InputOn my desk sits a report. Every row reads 'N/A — insufficient information.' N...
From Tsaghkadzor to the Grand Final: The Cultural Triumph of the European Schools Chess ChampionshipWhen the clocks in the tournament hall of Tsaghkadzor began their synchronize...
9...a5 Against the King's Indian Bayonet: A DVD, a Preparation Market, and a Missing Evidence FileI have watched matches for twenty-seven years, and I learned to read the...
The Missing King and the Load Autopsy of 5 e5!I went looking for the king. The headline promised that Alexei Sarana took hi...
Gukesh's Houdini Act Keeps India in Gold Race, But the Fragile Foundation's ArithmeticGukesh's Houdini Act Keeps India in Gold Race, But the Fragile Foundation's...
A Pawn on e5, a Missing King in the HeadlineOn a 2026 evening in the Purana Paltan press room, eleven reporters sat in th...
Board Four in Samarkand: The Houdini Act That Hides the Real CrisisFive hours and twenty minutes into round nine in the Samarkand hall, both...
The Samarkand Ledger: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Single-Point Gold ArithmeticHook: A Five-Hour Lost Position, and Three Draws Alongside It In the Samarkan...
FRITZ 20's Advertisement, Bavaria's Tiebreak, and the CD in Our Steel CupboardI opened the steel cupboard in the Federation hall at Purana Paltan on an...
Where Is the Chess Story? Eight Dimensions of Analysis Stalled by Missing EvidenceA single inaccurate move on the chessboard can determine the outcome several...
Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon or a Theoretical Risk? Examining the 60-Minute Chess Repertoire CourseThe Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon or a Theoretical Risk? Examining the...
5.e5!: The Sacrifice with Which Erigaisi Opens a New Door in the Italian Game for Club PlayersWhen the position flashed on my scanner, only ten minutes had passed on the...
Episode 745 Was Headlined Giri vs Abdusattorov; Inside Were Six Videos for SaleThe headline was explicit: Giri vs Abdusattorov, Game of the Week, Episode 74...
The Title Says King's Indian Attack, All 15 Information Points Describe the Defence — Auditing an Opening DVD's LedgerI opened an opening-DVD product page last week and, out of old habit, took ou...
A Headline Without a Body: Rachel Li, the Scandinavian Defense, and the Silent Injury of Chess PublishingA headline announces that Rachel Li has stunningly won the US Women's...
27 Miniatures, Zero Moves: What ChessBase Magazine #225's Promo Page Refuses to CountLast night I opened ChessBase's promotional page for its new issue with a...
The Headline Says Dortmund 2027; the Body Sells a 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense VideoTwelve information points. I counted them one by one, because the first thing...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit, Caruana's Fall, and Chess's Silent LedgerA Saint Petersburg winter evening. Fog gathers on the Neva beyond my window,...
The Scotch Revival, a False Headline, and the Arithmetic of Our Own LedgerThe first frame of a video and a headline that have nothing to do with each...
You Can Buy a Course; You Cannot Buy a PipelineThree things sit on my work table in Rangpur: a hand-drawn board grid, a...
The Wednesday Board: From Hamburg to Amsterdam, and the Ledger of an Invisible InfrastructureIn a small room in Amsterdam, at eight on a Wednesday evening, a screen light...
Ledger of Silence: A Data Journalist Reads the Empty InputOn my desk sits a report. Every row reads 'N/A — insufficient information.' N...
From Tsaghkadzor to the Grand Final: The Cultural Triumph of the European Schools Chess ChampionshipWhen the clocks in the tournament hall of Tsaghkadzor began their synchronize...
9...a5 Against the King's Indian Bayonet: A DVD, a Preparation Market, and a Missing Evidence FileI have watched matches for twenty-seven years, and I learned to read the...
The Missing King and the Load Autopsy of 5 e5!I went looking for the king. The headline promised that Alexei Sarana took hi...
Gukesh's Houdini Act Keeps India in Gold Race, But the Fragile Foundation's ArithmeticGukesh's Houdini Act Keeps India in Gold Race, But the Fragile Foundation's...
A Pawn on e5, a Missing King in the HeadlineOn a 2026 evening in the Purana Paltan press room, eleven reporters sat in th...
Board Four in Samarkand: The Houdini Act That Hides the Real CrisisFive hours and twenty minutes into round nine in the Samarkand hall, both...
The Samarkand Ledger: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Single-Point Gold ArithmeticHook: A Five-Hour Lost Position, and Three Draws Alongside It In the Samarkan...