Chess
Eight Empty Columns: How an 'Insufficient Information' Chess Analysis Exposed Bangladesh's Missing Archive
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Questions to Ask Before Buying the 60-Minute 'Magic'
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Arithmetic of 2...d5, a Borrowed Headline, and an Unfinished Pipeline
Vietnam Chess Team’s ‘Olympiad Gold’: Real Achievement, Ambiguous Category, and the Uncertainty of Verification
Eight Empty Columns: How an 'Insufficient Information' Chess Analysis Exposed Bangladesh's Missing ArchiveThe file that reached my desk last Thursday evening held thirty-two tables,...
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Questions to Ask Before Buying the 60-Minute 'Magic'The title gives the impression that a grandmaster named Fabien Libiszewski is...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Arithmetic of 2...d5, a Borrowed Headline, and an Unfinished PipelineThe game ended on move 23. It was seven in the evening in the hall at the...
Vietnam Chess Team’s ‘Olympiad Gold’: Real Achievement, Ambiguous Category, and the Uncertainty of VerificationIntroduction: One Headline, Three Questions A recently circulated sports repo...
Capablanca 2026, King's Indian 9...a5: One DVD, Two Stories, Zero DataA DVD surfaced last week while I was clearing dust off a shelf in my Delhi...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Turning a Product Listing Into a Ledger of EvidenceA thin booklet arrives by post, with a code inside. Subscribers to ChessBase...
A Budva Headline, an Elephant Gambit Body: Auditing the Missing Evidence in a 60-Minute RepertoireSeven in the morning, the feed. The headline reads "The European Club Cup kic...
From Prague to Download: ChessBase #225 and the Ledger of the Chess Training Economy27 miniatures. 10 opening articles. Five named analysts, three opening-video...
The Headline Said FIDE Congress; The File Said NajdorfI opened the file on a Tuesday night, at my desk in Bangalore. The inbox...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh Escapes, but India's Gold Hopes Still Rest on One Pair of ShouldersThe light in the Samarkand playing hall turns a little yellow as evening come...
One Headline, Two Documents: The FIDE Chair and the Najdorf FileThe document landed on my desk this week. The top line says Timur Turlov has...
When the Headline Becomes a False Witness: The Najdorf Update, the Turlov Claim, and the Ledger of One Broken RecordWhen the Headline Becomes a False Witness: The Najdorf Update, the Turlov...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, One Wrong Headline from Samarkand, and Bangladesh's Invisible PipelineTwenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, One Wrong Headline from Samarkand, and...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54 Moves and India's Silent Single-Point RiskA losing position sat on a Samarkand table for more than five hours. In Round...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Gap in Chess's Information ChainLast week a headline landed on my desk. Samarkand, round eight, women's...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Analysis, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and a Drawer in KhulnaIn the Right Corner of a Steel Cupboard In the right corner of that steel...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague on the Board: The Metadata Gap Inside ChessBase Magazine #225Samarkand. Round eight. Women's section. China leading 15/16. The headline re...
The Fifth Board's Arithmetic: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Family's Exhausted ReserveThe Thursday round in Samarkand took almost five hours. Two very different...
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Questions to Ask Before Buying the 60-Minute 'Magic'The title gives the impression that a grandmaster named Fabien Libiszewski is...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: The Arithmetic of 2...d5, a Borrowed Headline, and an Unfinished PipelineThe game ended on move 23. It was seven in the evening in the hall at the...
Vietnam Chess Team’s ‘Olympiad Gold’: Real Achievement, Ambiguous Category, and the Uncertainty of VerificationIntroduction: One Headline, Three Questions A recently circulated sports repo...
Capablanca 2026, King's Indian 9...a5: One DVD, Two Stories, Zero DataA DVD surfaced last week while I was clearing dust off a shelf in my Delhi...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Turning a Product Listing Into a Ledger of EvidenceA thin booklet arrives by post, with a code inside. Subscribers to ChessBase...
A Budva Headline, an Elephant Gambit Body: Auditing the Missing Evidence in a 60-Minute RepertoireSeven in the morning, the feed. The headline reads "The European Club Cup kic...
From Prague to Download: ChessBase #225 and the Ledger of the Chess Training Economy27 miniatures. 10 opening articles. Five named analysts, three opening-video...
The Headline Said FIDE Congress; The File Said NajdorfI opened the file on a Tuesday night, at my desk in Bangalore. The inbox...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh Escapes, but India's Gold Hopes Still Rest on One Pair of ShouldersThe light in the Samarkand playing hall turns a little yellow as evening come...
One Headline, Two Documents: The FIDE Chair and the Najdorf FileThe document landed on my desk this week. The top line says Timur Turlov has...
When the Headline Becomes a False Witness: The Najdorf Update, the Turlov Claim, and the Ledger of One Broken RecordWhen the Headline Becomes a False Witness: The Najdorf Update, the Turlov...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, One Wrong Headline from Samarkand, and Bangladesh's Invisible PipelineTwenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, One Wrong Headline from Samarkand, and...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54 Moves and India's Silent Single-Point RiskA losing position sat on a Samarkand table for more than five hours. In Round...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Gap in Chess's Information ChainLast week a headline landed on my desk. Samarkand, round eight, women's...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Analysis, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and a Drawer in KhulnaIn the Right Corner of a Steel Cupboard In the right corner of that steel...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague on the Board: The Metadata Gap Inside ChessBase Magazine #225Samarkand. Round eight. Women's section. China leading 15/16. The headline re...
The Fifth Board's Arithmetic: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Family's Exhausted ReserveThe Thursday round in Samarkand took almost five hours. Two very different...