Chess
The Tablebase Gives the Answer, Not the Reason: Karsten Müller's Twenty-Five Years
Samarkand Round Seven: A Headline, an Empty Board, and the Advertisement Sitting Underneath
The 'Solution' to the Scotch, Kasparov's 2026 Card, and a Lesson in Title Drift
Poland Problem or Structural Gap: The Reckoning Nobody Did After India Women's Round 5
Capablanca in the Title, 9...a5 on the Board: Auditing a Chess Product's ClaimsA name, a city, a year in the headline. An entirely different world in the...
Carlsen's 'Humans Aren't That Good at Chess': What a Three-Layer Translation Costs an InterviewOn the twenty-first of October, a recorder runs in Madrid and Magnus Carlsen...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye at the NATO Chess Championship: The Gap Between the Headline and the BoardIn December 2026 I opened a page in the Purana Paltan hall called Board...
New Lines in the Najdorf: Behind Vahap Sanal's Headline and Daniel King's UpdateWhen a chess clock stops, the headline on paper and the reality on the board...
Behind the Name 'Dortmund Trophy 2027': The 60-Minute Scandinavian TrapLast week a link landed in my inbox. The headline read "Dortmund Sparkassen...
The Tablebase Gives the Answer, Not the Reason: Karsten Müller's Twenty-Five YearsIn a Bundesliga team match, the board with the fewest spectators usually...
Zero Input, Zero Output: The Seventeen-Year Pipeline Failure of Bangladesh ChessEight sections on the screen, and under every one the same line — insufficien...
5.e5: A Move Left Standing in an Empty Room, Its Claim Missing from the Engine's LedgerA spiral notebook still lies in the corner of an old club room in Khulna....
A Tournament in the Headline, a Course Inside: The Quiet Market of 1.d4 Sidelines and Vlastimil Hort 2026The headline was clean and full of promise — "Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026:...
Samarkand 2026: India's Silver, Bronze, and the Unfinished Ledger of Board FourSamarkand 2026: India's Silver, Bronze, and the Unfinished Ledger of Board Fo...
Budapest Gold and Dhaka's Ledger: The Question India's Olympiad Win Left BehindThe 45th Chess Olympiad ran in Budapest from 10 to 23 September 2026. India...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Tired Heart: A Physiological Autopsy of a Black Repertoire CourseHook In April 2026 I flew to Dhaka for the Premier Division Chess League and...
Samarkand Round Seven: A Headline, an Empty Board, and the Advertisement Sitting UnderneathIt is two in the morning in my Mymensingh bedroom. A headline surfaces on the...
Samarkand Round 7: The Result Fits One Line, the Advertisement Takes Eleven PointsSamarkand R7 (women): China and Kazakhstan drew, now leading by a single matc...
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: Auditing the King's Indian 'Antidote' ClaimThe headline promised Samarkand — round seven, open section, Uzbekistan...
Carlsen's 'Humans Aren't That Good at Chess': What a Three-Layer Translation Costs an InterviewOn the twenty-first of October, a recorder runs in Madrid and Magnus Carlsen...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye at the NATO Chess Championship: The Gap Between the Headline and the BoardIn December 2026 I opened a page in the Purana Paltan hall called Board...
New Lines in the Najdorf: Behind Vahap Sanal's Headline and Daniel King's UpdateWhen a chess clock stops, the headline on paper and the reality on the board...
Behind the Name 'Dortmund Trophy 2027': The 60-Minute Scandinavian TrapLast week a link landed in my inbox. The headline read "Dortmund Sparkassen...
The Tablebase Gives the Answer, Not the Reason: Karsten Müller's Twenty-Five YearsIn a Bundesliga team match, the board with the fewest spectators usually...
Zero Input, Zero Output: The Seventeen-Year Pipeline Failure of Bangladesh ChessEight sections on the screen, and under every one the same line — insufficien...
5.e5: A Move Left Standing in an Empty Room, Its Claim Missing from the Engine's LedgerA spiral notebook still lies in the corner of an old club room in Khulna....
A Tournament in the Headline, a Course Inside: The Quiet Market of 1.d4 Sidelines and Vlastimil Hort 2026The headline was clean and full of promise — "Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026:...
Samarkand 2026: India's Silver, Bronze, and the Unfinished Ledger of Board FourSamarkand 2026: India's Silver, Bronze, and the Unfinished Ledger of Board Fo...
Budapest Gold and Dhaka's Ledger: The Question India's Olympiad Win Left BehindThe 45th Chess Olympiad ran in Budapest from 10 to 23 September 2026. India...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Tired Heart: A Physiological Autopsy of a Black Repertoire CourseHook In April 2026 I flew to Dhaka for the Premier Division Chess League and...
Samarkand Round Seven: A Headline, an Empty Board, and the Advertisement Sitting UnderneathIt is two in the morning in my Mymensingh bedroom. A headline surfaces on the...
Samarkand Round 7: The Result Fits One Line, the Advertisement Takes Eleven PointsSamarkand R7 (women): China and Kazakhstan drew, now leading by a single matc...
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: Auditing the King's Indian 'Antidote' ClaimThe headline promised Samarkand — round seven, open section, Uzbekistan...