Chess
The 1.d4 Shadow Network: London to Colle — Accounting for Four Fronts as Black
The 9...a5 Antidote: A Sideline Against the Bayonet and Its Commercial Wrapping
The Market for an Anti-Scotch Repertoire: Kasparov's 2026, Munich 2026, and the Coaching-Knowledge Economy
Larsen in the Headline, a Catalogue Inside — The Quiet Economy of Chess Media and the Empty Board of Purana Paltan
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Samarkand Headline, Prague Content — The Ledger of a Mismatch
ChessThree Years of Combined Excellence: India Retain the Trophy but Miss Gold in Both Sections at the 2026 Chess OlympiadThe first headline creates a reassuring picture: India have retained the Nona...
ChessThe 1.d4 Shadow Network: London to Colle — Accounting for Four Fronts as BlackWhen White declines 2.c4 after 1.d4 d5, the event on the board is not a new...
ChessUnder the Keymer System, a Sämisch Title: One Wei Yi Game, Two Wrong AddressesIt was 11:40 pm on 15 October 2026. I opened a training video with a notebook...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Trap: An Italian Line, Bodhana's Name, and the Hollow Packaging of Chess ContentMonday night, a club blitz in Delhi. On the next board, a 1500-rated teenager...
ChessThe 9...a5 Antidote: A Sideline Against the Bayonet and Its Commercial WrappingThe title says Attack. The contents say Defense. The first two words of ‘King...
ChessPrison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Questions No One AskedStart with a missing scoresheet. Between May 13 and May 23, 2026, 77 teams fr...
ChessThree, Eleven and Two: The European Club Cup Table That Became Its Own QuestionIt was 1:40 in the morning in Mumbai. A spreadsheet open on the desk, a cup o...
ChessThe Market for an Anti-Scotch Repertoire: Kasparov's 2026, Munich 2026, and the Coaching-Knowledge EconomyI start with three numbers. In August 2026, sitting in the anchor chair at...
ChessSmall Games, Large Ledger: The Economics of the Training Market and Bangladesh's Unfinished PipelineOn a Tuesday night in Mymensingh I opened the new issue on my laptop, and the...
ChessLarsen in the Headline, a Catalogue Inside — The Quiet Economy of Chess Media and the Empty Board of Purana PaltanIt was eleven at night in my Khulna flat. The 2026 laptop was running warm, t...
ChessHeartbeats in Paltan and a DVD: Where the Injury Sits in ChessI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
ChessKeymer's Name, the Scotch's Lesson: Auditing a Headline in the Coach-Brand MarketLast month I opened an online chess course page and sat still for close to a...
ChessSavitha Shri: Seven Wins, Three Years of Savings, and the Olympiad's Real LedgerThe evening I opened the Samarkand live boards, the internet in my Mymensingh...
ChessThe Sword That Hangs but Never Cuts: The Scandinavian Defense and the Sixty-Minute PromiseLast February, in a rented room above a pharmacy in Khulna, a...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: A Samarkand Headline, Prague Content — The Ledger of a MismatchHook: A Crack Between a Headline and Its Metadata A headline made me stop. It...
ChessA Samarkand Headline With Prague Inside: Chess's Training Market and the Missing Immutable RecordAt two in the morning in my Delhi flat, under the blue light of a laptop, I...
ChessThe Headline Sells Samarkand, the Body Sells a 60-Minute Course: A Forensic Audit of a Chess Feed ItemHook 12:47 a.m. In a Mymensingh room, under a table lamp, a chess feed scroll...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Preparation Sold Under a Samarkand HeadlineHook: The Numbers That Do Not Meet The headline said Samarkand, round eight,...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Course: Two Different Games Under One TitleLate last August, rain drumming on the window of my flat in Delhi, I opened a...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: What One Feed Fracture Reveals About the Chess-Content EconomyLate last week, scrolling a feed at two in the morning, a headline stopped me...
ChessFrom Prague 2026 to the Download Key: How Chess Training Became a Commercial PackageA file landed in my inbox last week. The title read: "Samarkand R8 (women):...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles and the Sixty-Minute PromiseThe ad copy landed in my inbox at 11:30 pm, exactly as I was shutting down th...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Unwritten Cost of the Scandinavian DefenseNovember 2026, a two-room flat in Mymensingh, game number 387 open on my lapt...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 at Samarkand: The Reserve Board and a Family Fund That Ran Out in Three YearsIn a room in Chennai, screen light falls on a father's face. In Samarkand the...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings: How Club-Level Dread Became a MarketThe file was titled “Chess is something magic”: An interview with Timur Turlo...
ChessThe Headline With No Body: Samarkand, the Scandinavian, and Chess Journalism's Empty BoardIt was seven minutes past two in the morning. In my flat in Penang I opened a...
ChessThe 1.d4 Shadow Network: London to Colle — Accounting for Four Fronts as BlackWhen White declines 2.c4 after 1.d4 d5, the event on the board is not a new...
ChessUnder the Keymer System, a Sämisch Title: One Wei Yi Game, Two Wrong AddressesIt was 11:40 pm on 15 October 2026. I opened a training video with a notebook...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Trap: An Italian Line, Bodhana's Name, and the Hollow Packaging of Chess ContentMonday night, a club blitz in Delhi. On the next board, a 1500-rated teenager...
ChessThe 9...a5 Antidote: A Sideline Against the Bayonet and Its Commercial WrappingThe title says Attack. The contents say Defense. The first two words of ‘King...
ChessPrison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Questions No One AskedStart with a missing scoresheet. Between May 13 and May 23, 2026, 77 teams fr...
ChessThree, Eleven and Two: The European Club Cup Table That Became Its Own QuestionIt was 1:40 in the morning in Mumbai. A spreadsheet open on the desk, a cup o...
ChessThe Market for an Anti-Scotch Repertoire: Kasparov's 2026, Munich 2026, and the Coaching-Knowledge EconomyI start with three numbers. In August 2026, sitting in the anchor chair at...
ChessSmall Games, Large Ledger: The Economics of the Training Market and Bangladesh's Unfinished PipelineOn a Tuesday night in Mymensingh I opened the new issue on my laptop, and the...
ChessLarsen in the Headline, a Catalogue Inside — The Quiet Economy of Chess Media and the Empty Board of Purana PaltanIt was eleven at night in my Khulna flat. The 2026 laptop was running warm, t...
ChessHeartbeats in Paltan and a DVD: Where the Injury Sits in ChessI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
ChessKeymer's Name, the Scotch's Lesson: Auditing a Headline in the Coach-Brand MarketLast month I opened an online chess course page and sat still for close to a...
ChessSavitha Shri: Seven Wins, Three Years of Savings, and the Olympiad's Real LedgerThe evening I opened the Samarkand live boards, the internet in my Mymensingh...
ChessThe Sword That Hangs but Never Cuts: The Scandinavian Defense and the Sixty-Minute PromiseLast February, in a rented room above a pharmacy in Khulna, a...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: A Samarkand Headline, Prague Content — The Ledger of a MismatchHook: A Crack Between a Headline and Its Metadata A headline made me stop. It...
ChessA Samarkand Headline With Prague Inside: Chess's Training Market and the Missing Immutable RecordAt two in the morning in my Delhi flat, under the blue light of a laptop, I...
ChessThe Headline Sells Samarkand, the Body Sells a 60-Minute Course: A Forensic Audit of a Chess Feed ItemHook 12:47 a.m. In a Mymensingh room, under a table lamp, a chess feed scroll...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Preparation Sold Under a Samarkand HeadlineHook: The Numbers That Do Not Meet The headline said Samarkand, round eight,...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Course: Two Different Games Under One TitleLate last August, rain drumming on the window of my flat in Delhi, I opened a...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: What One Feed Fracture Reveals About the Chess-Content EconomyLate last week, scrolling a feed at two in the morning, a headline stopped me...
ChessFrom Prague 2026 to the Download Key: How Chess Training Became a Commercial PackageA file landed in my inbox last week. The title read: "Samarkand R8 (women):...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles and the Sixty-Minute PromiseThe ad copy landed in my inbox at 11:30 pm, exactly as I was shutting down th...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Unwritten Cost of the Scandinavian DefenseNovember 2026, a two-room flat in Mymensingh, game number 387 open on my lapt...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 at Samarkand: The Reserve Board and a Family Fund That Ran Out in Three YearsIn a room in Chennai, screen light falls on a father's face. In Samarkand the...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings: How Club-Level Dread Became a MarketThe file was titled “Chess is something magic”: An interview with Timur Turlo...
ChessThe Headline With No Body: Samarkand, the Scandinavian, and Chess Journalism's Empty BoardIt was seven minutes past two in the morning. In my flat in Penang I opened a...