Chess
Sixteen Points, Zero Samples: Auditing the King's Indian Antidote
Petroff or Scandinavian: The Major Information Gap Behind the Promise of Learning an Opening in 60 Minutes
Two Openings in Sixty Minutes: The Repertoire Product That Cannot Name Its Own Colour
Chigorin Defence or Italian 5.e5: The Curious Duality of an Opening Product
ChessThe Italian Game’s 5. e5: A Sharp Move, but Its Practical Edge Remains UnprovenOn the fifth move of this Italian Game line, White advances a pawn: 1. e4 e5 ...
ChessCountering the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense: Svitlana Explores the Strategic Potential of 9...a5A single chess move can matter for reasons beyond its immediate consequences....
ChessAutopsy of a Paltan Heartbeat: When a Sicilian 'Brilliancy' Gets Wrapped in Promotional LanguageI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
ChessSixteen Points, Zero Samples: Auditing the King's Indian AntidoteLast month a promotional blurb for a chess instructional DVD landed on my des...
ChessPetroff or Scandinavian: The Major Information Gap Behind the Promise of Learning an Opening in 60 MinutesA single inaccurate move in the opening can change the entire evaluation of a...
ChessThe Quiet Board's Silent Budget: Accounting for Bangladesh's Lost Chess PipelineThe door of the Purana Paltan chess hall still creaks with the same old sound...
ChessEpisode 746: A Game in the Title, an Advertisement in the Body — Seven Names, Six Videos, and the 1.d4 Sideline LedgerThe title stops you: "Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang." Two grandmaster...
ChessBangladesh's Lost Chess Years: How a Country with Five Grandmasters Lost Its PipelineThe paper an old member of Leonine Chess Club handed me was not a photograph ...
ChessChigorin or Italian: The Diagnostic Failure of a Chess Course ReviewTwo in the morning, two tabs open on my desk. One headline reads Chigorin...
ChessTwo Openings in Sixty Minutes: The Repertoire Product That Cannot Name Its Own ColourIn the hall at Purana Paltan last season a club player handed me a printout....
ChessChigorin Defence or Italian 5.e5: The Curious Duality of an Opening ProductIntroduction: this is not a game report The material under review is a...
ChessReport Not Generated: Source Material MissingThe supplied material is not a sports news article. It is an analytical note...
ChessA Dortmund 2027 Headline Selling a 60-Minute Scandinavian Video: Chess Instruction Economics and Bangladesh's Unfinished PipelineA link arrived in Rangpur on an October afternoon, forwarded, with no message...
ChessBodhana in the Headline, a Pawn in the Body: A Source Audit of a Chess Promotional ArticleThis week I had to add a new column to my ledger. I called it “the distance...
ChessNajdorf on the Label, Elephant on the Board: A 60-Minute Gambit Package and an Empty DenominatorI opened the product page for exactly one reason. The headline promised the...
ChessThe Headline That Replaced FIDE's President: Timur Turlov, Cyprus and the Ledger of Chess JournalismA headline landed on my desk last week. The sentence read: “FIDE President...
ChessBudva's Arithmetic: The Budget Hiding Behind a 2715 AverageA number hung in the hall of the Budva congress centre on the morning of 19...
ChessShadow War on the Budva Boards: European Club Cup's 2715 Average and the Silent Ledger of 22 Women's TeamsIn the hotel lobby in Budva, the boards are set out around six in the evening...
ChessTwo Atyrau Seeds and 27 Miniatures: Reading the Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225That evening in my Mumbai flat I opened my laptop and downloaded the new issu...
ChessThe Blank Scoresheet Is Bangladesh Chess's Only Honest RecordOn July 5, 2026, a Premier Division league match in Dhaka. The clock was stil...
ChessThe 60 Minutes of the Elephant Gambit, the 'Bundesliga Dispute' Title, and the Club Player's GambleThe 60 Minutes of the Elephant Gambit, the 'Bundesliga Dispute' Title, and th...
ChessThe Course Ledger: Kavutskiy's Two Courses, One Review — The Invisible Gap in the Training MarketA new entry went into my ledger today. When ChessBase announced its new...
Chess3.Bc4, 2504, and Eleven Years Old: The Samarkand Scoresheet and the Purana Paltan LedgerIn the hall in Samarkand there is a row of tables, and on one of them sits...
ChessChessMom Returns: Mothers on the Side, and the 9...a5 Story the Title Did Not TellHook: The first data is the mismatch between title and product. The proposed...
ChessKeymer in the Headline, Scotch in the Body: A Balance Sheet of the Chess Content MarketHook: A Page Without a Date The last entry in my notebook this week is a...