Chess
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
The Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Success and Mikhalchishin's Practical Advice
Mikhalchishin's Anti-Scotch Guide: Lessons from Kasparov's 2026 Revival
The Endgame's Craftsman: Karsten Müller, Whose Book Repaired Carlsen's Endgame
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...
A Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD Ad in the Body: A Forensic Post-Mortem of Chess MediaA Schools Championship in the Headline, a DVD Ad in the Body: A Forensic...
A Saint Louis Headline, a Prague Body: ChessBase #225 and the Gap Inside Chess Training EconomicsThe headline said Saint Louis, October 8 — America's elite round-robin, stage...
London, Colle, Trompowsky: The 'Anti-System' Repertoire in the Chess Education Market and the Unverified Structure of a QuoteBefore I open a product page, I look for a number. Whatever the headline...
Chess for Mothers: The King's Indian Repertoire and the Search for Technical TruthHOOK: A Feature Built on a Data Gap When I digitized 41 national championship...
Forty Squares, Eleven Rounds: India's Samarkand Silver and Bronze, and the Conversions That Were Never PlayedThe clock was coming down in the final round at the Samarkand Olympiad hall,...
Samarkand's Last Day: Board-Order Arithmetic and a Tiebreak SilverSamarkand's Last Day: Board-Order Arithmetic and a Tiebreak Silver The...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Defense, the Shadow of Carlsen's Name, and the Club Player's Real EnemyThe first number that catches the eye on the product page is not a rating and...
A Samarkand Headline and a Bayonet Attack 'Antidote': Auditing the Source Integrity of Chess ContentHook: One Inch of Dust on the Second Shelf The steel cupboard sits in a Khuln...
A Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Body: Autopsy of a Chess Information MismatchThe headline said Samarkand, round seven, and Uzbekistan extending its lead....
Samarkand Round Seven: When a News Headline Becomes Advertising InventoryI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In November 2026 I...
Samarkand, the Bayonet and an Empty Board: What Turned Up When I Tried to Verify a HeadlineThree in the Morning, and a Headline The call came at three in the morning fr...
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, Lead by One Match Point — The Ledger I Opened in the Gap Between Headline and BodyI opened the page for exactly one reason: the headline carried a specific rou...
The Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Success and Mikhalchishin's Practical AdviceThe Scotch Opening was once considered 'harmless.' But when Garry Kasparov...
Fischer in the Headline, Scotch in the Body: The Commercial Half-Life of Chess Opening KnowledgeIn my bedroom in Mymensingh I paused the clip at twenty-eight minutes on a...
Sixty Minutes Against the Scotch: Mikhalchishin's Video, Kasparov's 2026 and the Silence of the SpreadsheetThe headline said Samarkand Round 6, Uzbekistan beating India for sole lead. ...