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ChessElephant Gambit: Is Surprise Enough, or Does Preparation Depth Matter?2026-11-06Elephant Gambit: Is Surprise Enough, or Does Preparation Depth Matter? The...
ChessNepo in the Headline, 1.d4 d5 in the Contents: Auditing an Opening Course2026-10-30Last week, around ten in the evening, in my flat in Moscow, I opened a...
Chess5 e5: The Move That Wins Club Games and Loses to Anyone Who Prepares2026-10-20Two in the morning in a Dublin flat, laptop open, a club-level online blitz o...
ChessThe Ledger of Twenty-Seven Miniatures: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economics of Training2026-10-08Rangpur, seven in the evening, laptop open by the window. The download of...
ChessA Move for the Silent Night: ChessMom's DVD and the Invisible War of Defense2026-09-30Let me start with a date. Mid-November 2026. I was in a Bangalore apartment,...
ChessSavitha Shri's Seven Wins, Her Father's Three-Year Savings: Reading India's Chess Economy from the Fifth Board2026-09-26The fifth name on a team sheet is always printed a little smaller. On the Ind...
ChessThe Country of Blank Scoresheets: Why Bangladesh's Chess Cannot Prove Its Own CaseThe folder on my Khulna desk was named "Neer-78". Inside it: one photograph,...
ChessElephant Gambit: Is Surprise Enough, or Does Preparation Depth Matter?Elephant Gambit: Is Surprise Enough, or Does Preparation Depth Matter? The...
ChessNot the King's Indian Attack, but a New Weapon in the Defense — DVD Debate in the Olympiad SpotlightLast year I was sitting in the press room of the Chennai Olympiad. At the nex...
ChessWei Yi's Patient Counterattack Against the Keymer System: A Model Game from the OlympiadA training presentation built around a game from the eighth round of the Ches...
ChessA New Era Begins: India's Rise and the Unravelling of the Old Order in World ChessOn 12 December 2026, in a Singapore hotel ballroom, two generations sat acros...
ChessNepo in the Headline, 1.d4 d5 in the Contents: Auditing an Opening CourseLast week, around ten in the evening, in my flat in Moscow, I opened a...
ChessChess Training Course Versus News Headline: A Study in Information MismatchIn the world of chess, the distinction between instructional content and...
ChessA Steel Cupboard, One Line of Score, Sixty Minutes of Advertisement: The Club Cup Story Nobody FiledApril 2026. I spent four days in the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Pura...
ChessVahap Sanal in the NATO Chess Headline, but a Najdorf Product Ad in the BodyWhen the headline 'Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye triumph at NATO Chess...
Chess5 e5: The Move That Wins Club Games and Loses to Anyone Who PreparesTwo in the morning in a Dublin flat, laptop open, a club-level online blitz o...
ChessThe Hour of the Seconds: A Nineties DVD, and the Old Art of Sidestepping the Bayonet Attack in the Engine Era[English article content here]
ChessBenko in the Title, Fritz 20 on the Page: A Ledger Audit of Chess-Content CommerceI opened the page and read the headline first. It said: “The Modern Benko...
Chess9...a5: The Accounting Behind the Sold Antidote to the BayonetIt is eleven at night on a club board in Mymensingh. White's b4 pawn and...
Chess9...a5 — The Move Sold on a DVD, and the Ledger Demanded in KazakhstanOn the Mar del Plata board, Black's last pawn tips from e5 toward f5 while ra...
ChessFrom Dusk till Dawn: The Training Economy That Never Finds Paltan's DoorI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the resul...
ChessThe Ledger of Twenty-Seven Miniatures: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economics of TrainingRangpur, seven in the evening, laptop open by the window. The download of...
ChessWhat Isn't There in Bent Larsen's Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess ContentI read the headline first — "Learning strategy from Bent Larsen." Then I went...
ChessSix Videos, One Quote: What the Notebook Says About the Market for System OpeningsA course page. At the top, in large type, a quote — “chess is massively...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: Why an Old Sideline Is Being Repackaged and Sold9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: Why an Old Sideline Is Being Repackaged an...
ChessA Move for the Silent Night: ChessMom's DVD and the Invisible War of DefenseLet me start with a date. Mid-November 2026. I was in a Bangalore apartment,...
Chess45.Rd1: A Rejected Draw in Samarkand, and Two Teenage Hands Carrying the LoadThe clock in Samarkand had already crossed five hours when the move landed on...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and a Promise Left HangingLast month at a club evening in Penang, the first move on the board was 1.e4....
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: A Chess Data-Provenance LedgerA file landed on my desk last week. The headline read: "Samarkand Round 8...
ChessThe Fifth-Board Ledger: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Quiet Arithmetic of Family CapitalThe Fifth-Board Ledger: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Quiet Arithmetic of Family...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Prague Body: The Ledger of a Metadata Error in the Chess Training MarketSix in the evening, Saint Petersburg. The tea went cold long ago. The file op...
ChessSavitha Shri's Seven Wins, Her Father's Three-Year Savings: Reading India's Chess Economy from the Fifth BoardThe fifth name on a team sheet is always printed a little smaller. On the Ind...
ChessElephant Gambit: Is Surprise Enough, or Does Preparation Depth Matter?Elephant Gambit: Is Surprise Enough, or Does Preparation Depth Matter? The...
ChessNot the King's Indian Attack, but a New Weapon in the Defense — DVD Debate in the Olympiad SpotlightLast year I was sitting in the press room of the Chennai Olympiad. At the nex...
ChessWei Yi's Patient Counterattack Against the Keymer System: A Model Game from the OlympiadA training presentation built around a game from the eighth round of the Ches...
ChessA New Era Begins: India's Rise and the Unravelling of the Old Order in World ChessOn 12 December 2026, in a Singapore hotel ballroom, two generations sat acros...
ChessNepo in the Headline, 1.d4 d5 in the Contents: Auditing an Opening CourseLast week, around ten in the evening, in my flat in Moscow, I opened a...
ChessChess Training Course Versus News Headline: A Study in Information MismatchIn the world of chess, the distinction between instructional content and...
ChessA Steel Cupboard, One Line of Score, Sixty Minutes of Advertisement: The Club Cup Story Nobody FiledApril 2026. I spent four days in the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Pura...
ChessVahap Sanal in the NATO Chess Headline, but a Najdorf Product Ad in the BodyWhen the headline 'Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye triumph at NATO Chess...
Chess5 e5: The Move That Wins Club Games and Loses to Anyone Who PreparesTwo in the morning in a Dublin flat, laptop open, a club-level online blitz o...
ChessThe Hour of the Seconds: A Nineties DVD, and the Old Art of Sidestepping the Bayonet Attack in the Engine Era[English article content here]
ChessBenko in the Title, Fritz 20 on the Page: A Ledger Audit of Chess-Content CommerceI opened the page and read the headline first. It said: “The Modern Benko...
Chess9...a5: The Accounting Behind the Sold Antidote to the BayonetIt is eleven at night on a club board in Mymensingh. White's b4 pawn and...
Chess9...a5 — The Move Sold on a DVD, and the Ledger Demanded in KazakhstanOn the Mar del Plata board, Black's last pawn tips from e5 toward f5 while ra...
ChessFrom Dusk till Dawn: The Training Economy That Never Finds Paltan's DoorI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the resul...
ChessThe Ledger of Twenty-Seven Miniatures: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economics of TrainingRangpur, seven in the evening, laptop open by the window. The download of...
ChessWhat Isn't There in Bent Larsen's Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess ContentI read the headline first — "Learning strategy from Bent Larsen." Then I went...
ChessSix Videos, One Quote: What the Notebook Says About the Market for System OpeningsA course page. At the top, in large type, a quote — “chess is massively...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: Why an Old Sideline Is Being Repackaged and Sold9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: Why an Old Sideline Is Being Repackaged an...
ChessA Move for the Silent Night: ChessMom's DVD and the Invisible War of DefenseLet me start with a date. Mid-November 2026. I was in a Bangalore apartment,...
Chess45.Rd1: A Rejected Draw in Samarkand, and Two Teenage Hands Carrying the LoadThe clock in Samarkand had already crossed five hours when the move landed on...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and a Promise Left HangingLast month at a club evening in Penang, the first move on the board was 1.e4....
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: A Chess Data-Provenance LedgerA file landed on my desk last week. The headline read: "Samarkand Round 8...
ChessThe Fifth-Board Ledger: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Quiet Arithmetic of Family CapitalThe Fifth-Board Ledger: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Quiet Arithmetic of Family...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Prague Body: The Ledger of a Metadata Error in the Chess Training MarketSix in the evening, Saint Petersburg. The tea went cold long ago. The file op...
ChessSavitha Shri's Seven Wins, Her Father's Three-Year Savings: Reading India's Chess Economy from the Fifth BoardThe fifth name on a team sheet is always printed a little smaller. On the Ind...