Chess
Giri–Abdusattorov in the Title, Six Videos in the Body: Auditing the Anti-1.d4 Preparation Market
A 2026 Gold and a 9...a5 Sideline: Auditing the Ledger of a Sales Claim
A Neiksans Headline, a Scandinavian Lesson: The Ledger of a Mislabelled Chess Product
Bundesliga in the Title, Elephant Gambit in the Body: A Metadata Audit
One Result, One Advertisement: Liang–Niemann and the Silent Injury of Chess News
Samarkand, the Bayonet and an Empty Board: What Turned Up When I Tried to Verify a Headline
Not a Talent Drought but a Patron Drought: 38 Years After South Asia's First GrandmasterJune 2026, Delhi. The Russia World Cup had taken over every screen in the cit...
One Headline, Another Reality: The Saint Louis Promise and the Prague-ChessBase Story InsideIntroduction: One Headline, Another Body The headline reads: 'Knight to Octob...
A Bundesliga 'Dispute' or a 60-Minute Advertisement: The Elephant Gambit and the Fracture in Chess JournalismPenang, a club night. The light over the board cuts a thirty-degree wedge, th...
Where the Samarkand Result Went: Germany's 'Upset', a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian, and an Empty Source FieldI opened the link at my desk in Saint Petersburg late last night. The headlin...
Giri–Abdusattorov in the Title, Six Videos in the Body: Auditing the Anti-1.d4 Preparation MarketThe title was unambiguous: Giri versus Abdusattorov, Game of the Week number...
A 2026 Gold and a 9...a5 Sideline: Auditing the Ledger of a Sales ClaimHalf past midnight. A product page for a chess training DVD is open on the...
108 Teams in Budva, One 2715: The Paper Favourite and the Gaps Between BoardsEleven at night in Mumbai. Two browser tabs open on the desk. The left one...
Magnus Carlsen's Confession: 'AI Shows Humans Are Not That Great at Chess' — The Battle Beyond the BoardOn October 21, in an interview with Spain's sports daily AS, Magnus Carlsen...
Carlsen's Confession: The Truth a 35-Year-Old No. 1 Can No Longer HideThe man sitting at the board is thirty-five. The camera is watching him, but...
A Neiksans Headline, a Scandinavian Lesson: The Ledger of a Mislabelled Chess ProductA club player in Dhaka handed me his phone last month. The banner read: "From...
The Injury at Move Five: The Italian Game's Trap Line and Its Hollow PromiseThe headline says, “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls with Bodhana...
Sixty Minutes, One Defence, One Wrong Headline: The Simple Ledger of the ScandinavianLast year, after an evening session at an academy in Khulna, a sixteen-year-o...
The Elephant Gambit Market: The 60-Minute Economy Hiding in Chess Theory's ShadowThe headline sits over the European Club Cup in Budva, but the game itself...
The Empty Ledger: Where Bangladeshi Chess Loses Its Chain of RecordAt the BCF hall in Purana Paltan it was a Tuesday, past noon. Between rounds ...
Mikhalchishin's Anti-Scotch Guide: Lessons from Kasparov's 2026 RevivalWhen Garry Kasparov used the Scotch Opening on the world championship stage,...
The Endgame's Craftsman: Karsten Müller, Whose Book Repaired Carlsen's EndgameLast night in my Dublin room I laid out a rook-and-pawn endgame. The clock re...
Bundesliga in the Title, Elephant Gambit in the Body: A Metadata AuditBundesliga in the Title, Elephant Gambit in the Body: A Metadata Audit Last...
One Result, One Advertisement: Liang–Niemann and the Silent Injury of Chess News"Awonder Liang beat Hans Niemann in Round 1 of the US Championships." That...
Fast and Furious: The Closed Sicilian, 7.b3, and a Body's Ledger at the ChessboardThe clock is what stopped me first. On Brandon Jacobson's side, time seemed t...
A Tournament in the Title, a Course in the Body: Six Videos, Seven Openings, and Zero DataLast week a chess headline caught my eye—"Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026:...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Fourteen Information Points, Zero Bent Larsen — A Document Audit of the Chess-Content EconomyHook — Fourteen Information Points, Zero Larsen Issue number 225. ChessBase...