Chess
Budva: One 2715 Average, the Mirage of 25 Unbeaten Teams, and a Headline That Doesn't Match2026-10-22Twenty-five teams are unbeaten after two rounds in Budva. In a field of 108...
The Benko Gambit 'Full Repertoire': The Ledger Missing Behind a Review Headline2026-10-18I opened the page looking for a number. The headline was unambiguous — The...
Bundesliga Dispute, Elephant Gambit, and the Blockchain Ledger: A Metadata Integrity Audit2026-10-14I was scanning a product page for a 60-minute chess video when I saw the titl...
ChessMom, Mar del Plata and 9...a5: The Opening-Prep Market and Its Ledger2026-10-05The clock showed one minute and twelve seconds. In a club room in Dhaka, a...
ChessThe Board With No Pieces: A Silent Failure in Chess Coverage's Data PipelineEleven at night in Mumbai. A table on the laptop screen: five rows, two...
Chess9...a5: A Sales Line and an Incomplete Ledger2:40 a.m. I opened the text file of an opening product and stopped at the...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: The September Catalogue and the Production Chain Bangladesh Never BuiltThe steel cupboard at Purana Paltan still holds the echo of a crowd that neve...
ChessBudva: One 2715 Average, the Mirage of 25 Unbeaten Teams, and a Headline That Doesn't MatchTwenty-five teams are unbeaten after two rounds in Budva. In a field of 108...
ChessCarlsen's AI Remark, Budapest's New Format and Dhaka's Unfinished LedgerOn 21 October in Madrid, Magnus Carlsen gave an interview to AS, the Spanish...
Chess9...a5: The Move Sold as an Antidote, the Record Calls It a SidelineA promotional sheet for an opening DVD landed on my desk last week. The first...
ChessThe Benko Gambit 'Full Repertoire': The Ledger Missing Behind a Review HeadlineI opened the page looking for a number. The headline was unambiguous — The...
ChessThe Shadow of Move Nine: The 'Antidote' Sold on DVD Against the Bayonet AttackThe largest sentence printed on the DVD cover was in English: 'Computers don'...
ChessThe Bundesliga's Lost Evening: A 2026 Late Arrival, an Appeal, and Bodhana Behind the HeadlineI opened a folder no one had opened in years. Inside was a single sheet — a...
ChessBundesliga Dispute, Elephant Gambit, and the Blockchain Ledger: A Metadata Integrity AuditI was scanning a product page for a 60-minute chess video when I saw the titl...
ChessSeventeen Years After Niaz: Why Bangladeshi Chess Stopped at FiveThe door is shut. On the laptop screen, a zoomed-in 64-square board, and besi...