Chess
Nine of Ten Fields Blank: Bangladesh Chess Has No Medical Record of Its Own Injury
From Mymensingh to the Middle East: The economics of the chessboard and Bangladesh's stalled pipeline
Nakamura's Clutch Chess Lead Claim: No Verifiable Results and Promotional Traces in the Source
9...a5: A King's Indian Antidote, or a Data-Free Advertisement?
A Late Start, a Shaken Table: The Ledger of the 2026/87 Bundesliga Rules Dispute
Black's Plans Against 1.d4: A Headline's Mismatch and the Pedagogy of Theory-Light Systems
The Chess Story With No MovesTwo in the morning. In a room in Mymensingh, a forwarded message sits open on...
Before Writing the Chess Story, the Moves Must Be Verified: Missing Evidence Limits the AnalysisA chess match can sometimes be analysed in a few hours. Understanding its...
Nine of Ten Fields Blank: Bangladesh Chess Has No Medical Record of Its Own InjuryA blank chart. Ten fields. Only one contains a word: ‘chess’. The other nine...
Chess Analysis Report Halted After Source Data FailureA full chess analysis report has been halted because the submitted Stage-1...
Merijn van Delft: Chasing the Grandmaster Title While Building a Second ChessboardHook: A Wednesday Evening That Outlasted a Season A chess player is usually...
From Mymensingh to the Middle East: The economics of the chessboard and Bangladesh's stalled pipelineIn 2026, while building opening dossiers for the Batumi Olympiad, I noticed m...
The 1.d4 Sidestep: A Four-System Prep Ledger and the Empty Arithmetic of a Promoted VideoAfter 1.d4 d5, when White declines 2.c4, what remains on the board is not a...
Wei Yi's Model Game: A Lesson in Counterattack Against the Slow-Build Keymer SystemIntroduction Some chess games teach more than their result does. In the eight...
Bangladesh's Biggest Chess Deficit Isn't on the Board — It's in the ArchiveTwo in the morning. On a laptop screen in a bedroom in Mymensingh sits a...
The Commercial Battle of Chess Opening Preparation: The Technical Gaps Hidden Inside '60 Minutes'In the international chess world, opening preparation is no longer merely a...
Sixty Minutes, Two Openings, One Unanswered Question: Which Colour Are You Buying?Purana Paltan, February 2026. Eleven reporters in the BCF hall, one woman amo...
Atyrau Masters: The Top Two Seeds Lost and Nobody Wrote Down Their NamesThe release notice for ChessBase Magazine #225 opens with a single sentence...
Samarkand Women's Round 7: China–Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead — and the Arithmetic Off the ScoreboardI read the Round 7 result four times. The first time my eye caught the word...
Nakamura's Clutch Chess Lead Claim: No Verifiable Results and Promotional Traces in the SourceThe headline claims that Hikaru Nakamura leads after the first day of Clutch...
Four Stars in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: When Chess News Wears an Advertisement's ClothesSeven information points. Zero moves. Zero ratings. Zero results. The headlin...
9...a5: A King's Indian Antidote, or a Data-Free Advertisement?A promotional leaflet for a training DVD landed on my desk last month. Sixtee...
A Late Start, a Shaken Table: The Ledger of the 2026/87 Bundesliga Rules Dispute2026/87, the German Bundesliga. A round is due to start. The clock is running...
Reading the Empty Dossier: Why Bangladesh's Chess Pipeline Is Stuck Without a Sixth GrandmasterHook On a humid Mymensingh night in 2026 I opened a folder — my own hand-tagg...