Chess
Dortmund's Name, the Scandinavian Move: The Arithmetic Behind a 60-Minute Chess Promise
The London–Colle–Torre Era: Black's Anti-System Package and the Arithmetic of the Course Market
A Championship in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: The Elephant Gambit Course and the Ledger of an Upset
The Shenzhen Result, the Dhaka Ledger: Ding Liren's Loss and the Arithmetic of an Unfinished Pipeline
The Scotch Revival and the Ledger of a Counter-Repertoire: 2026 to 2026, Board to Market
ChessDortmund's Name, the Scandinavian Move: The Arithmetic Behind a 60-Minute Chess PromiseIt is 2:17 in the morning in a bedroom in Mymensingh, and the laptop screen...
ChessA Championship in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: The Elephant Gambit Course and the Ledger of an UpsetTwo results sit in the headline. First, Woodward took down Fabiano Caruana....
ChessThe Shenzhen Result, the Dhaka Ledger: Ding Liren's Loss and the Arithmetic of an Unfinished PipelineI read the promotional page for ChessBase Magazine #225 three times. The firs...
ChessThe Scotch Revival and the Ledger of a Counter-Repertoire: 2026 to 2026, Board to MarketThe page carried a headline: "The Chess Olympiad that wasn't: Munich 2026." B...
ChessThe Revival of the Scotch Opening: From Kasparov's 2026 to Mikhalchishin's "60 Minutes" — A Data AuditThe Scotch Opening. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 — around this three-move set, a ro...
ChessOne Miniature from the UzChess Cup: Closed Sicilian g2-g3, a Title-Body Gap, and a ReceiptIn the last week of June 2026 a document landed on my desk. The headline said...
ChessFrom Dusk Till Dawn: When the Chess Training Market Becomes an Audit Ledger in a Moscow WindowIn May 2026 I published a 4,000-word reconstruction of Spartak Moscow's title...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The Chess Market Beyond Bangladesh's ReachChessBase Magazine #225: The Chess Market Beyond Bangladesh's Reach Hook One...
ChessThe Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: Sixty Minutes of the Najdorf and the Market for Chess KnowledgeThe headline was large: "Main decisions of the FIDE General Assembly 2026."...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Promise and the Ledger Nobody Can EditOn a February evening I sat at board four of a club room with nothing to do b...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: A Genuine Antidote, or Old Theory in New Packaging?Last week, at two in the morning in my Dublin flat, I set up the board. 1.d4...
ChessThe London–Colle–Torre Era: Black's Anti-System Package and the Arithmetic of the Course MarketA page, six videos. The London System, the Colle System, the Torre Attack, th...
ChessA King's Walk at the Olympiad: Sarana in the Headline, 5.e5! in the Story — the Italian Weapon Sveshnikov Has Walked for DecadesHook The headline promised a game: 'Alexei Sarana takes his king for a walk a...
ChessTurlov's Headline, King's Najdorf: Two Different Games in One DocumentThe steel cupboard at the BCF hall in Purana Paltan is still standing, for al...
ChessA Samarkand Label, a Prague Interior: The Economics of Chess Memory Inside One Opened FolderThe label on the folder said: Samarkand, round eight (women), China leading...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Catalogue Body: Reading the Information Fracture in Chess Training MarketsLast week a coach at a small academy in Mymensingh sent me a screenshot. The...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Board: Issue 225 and the Ledger of a Missing 15/16Hook: When the Headline and the Body Disagree I opened the file to check the...
ChessNot Samarkand but Prague: 27 Miniatures and a Metadata GapForty-five years at a desk taught me a habit that today's fast news economy h...
ChessA Sword in Sixty Minutes? The Scandinavian Defense, Marketing Sentences, and the Board's Own ArithmeticAugust 2026. A kitchen in Saint Petersburg, one laptop, one headset, and a ch...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles, and a Headline From a Different MatchA headline, and underneath it something else entirely. Late in 2026, two item...
ChessSeven Wins from the Reserve Board: Savitha Shri, Her Father's Savings, and the Samarkand ArithmeticThe lights in the Samarkand playing hall were already dimming when the fifth...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve-Board Win, a Father's Savings Gone in Three Years, and a Ledger ProblemFour hours and fifty-two minutes. In the Samarkand playing hall the clock is...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense, Sixty Minutes and Carlsen's Name: A Load Autopsy of a Chess CourseThe April 2026 page of my notebook is still folded. The Dhaka Premier Divisio...