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Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final as ChessBase's New Issue Leans on Big Names
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Plan Each: Who Carries Black's Bill?
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian and a Headline's Lie: What Chess Instruction Actually Sells
The Headline That Won, the Body That Lost: Six Videos in the Name of the US Championship
A Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Body: When a Feed Mails an Advertisement in a News Envelope
Professionalism Inside the Information Vacuum: Eight Verification Steps in Chess ReportingThe hardest task in sports journalism is not writing the story; it is stating...
Struck by Nakamura's Own Weapon: Reading Sindarov's King's IndianOn the Clutch Chess board in Saint Louis, the game that tracked a 2026...
No Story From an Empty Stream: The Information-Chain Crisis in a Chess ReportThe first rule of sports journalism is simple: know what happened on the grou...
One 60-Minute Video, Two Different Openings: The Evidence Lost Between Chigorin and the ItalianLast week I sat with the description of a commercial chess repertoire product...
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final as ChessBase's New Issue Leans on Big NamesThe World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) Grand Prix Final will be he...
5.e5: The Club-Board Trap and the Incomplete Ledger of Chess WritingEleven at night on the board in my flat. A moment earlier my opponent had...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Plan Each: Who Carries Black's Bill?At a quarter past two in Khulna the tea has gone cold, and the ring it left o...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, One Wrong Headline, and the Low-Theory MarketSixty minutes. One video, one main line, and one sentence — “White cannot get...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian and a Headline's Lie: What Chess Instruction Actually SellsIt was half past midnight in my Khulna flat, on a 2026 laptop, with a router...
The Scandinavian Defense: An Opening in 60 Minutes, or Another Promise in Carlsen's Shadow?The time was July 2026. In a third-floor hall of a Dhaka club, the air was sl...
The Headline That Won, the Body That Lost: Six Videos in the Name of the US ChampionshipI read the headline in my Mymensingh bedroom around ten at night. In English:...
A Miniature on an Uzbek Board: The Closed Sicilian's 'Surprise Weapon' and the Economy of the TextbookHook: One Evening in Tashkent, One Opened Folder Late June, 2026. A tournamen...
The Wednesday Archive: Merijn van Delft's Ten-Year Hour from Hamburg to AmsterdamIt is a Wednesday evening in Amsterdam. The light over the canals fades, a...
The Empty Cupboard, Forty Squares: Why Bangladesh's Chess Could Not Write Its Own HistoryThe report came back empty-handed. Eight chapters, thirty-three tables, and i...
Bent Larsen in the Headline, Absent in the Data: A Ledger Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225The headline promised strategy lessons from Bent Larsen. I opened the ledger...
The Tiebreak Knife in Samarkand: India's Silver, Uzbekistan's Gold, and One Result on Board FourHook: What Appeared on the Screen Four in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom...
Struck by Nakamura's Own Weapon: Reading Sindarov's King's IndianOn the Clutch Chess board in Saint Louis, the game that tracked a 2026...
No Story From an Empty Stream: The Information-Chain Crisis in a Chess ReportThe first rule of sports journalism is simple: know what happened on the grou...
One 60-Minute Video, Two Different Openings: The Evidence Lost Between Chigorin and the ItalianLast week I sat with the description of a commercial chess repertoire product...
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final as ChessBase's New Issue Leans on Big NamesThe World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) Grand Prix Final will be he...
5.e5: The Club-Board Trap and the Incomplete Ledger of Chess WritingEleven at night on the board in my flat. A moment earlier my opponent had...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Plan Each: Who Carries Black's Bill?At a quarter past two in Khulna the tea has gone cold, and the ring it left o...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, One Wrong Headline, and the Low-Theory MarketSixty minutes. One video, one main line, and one sentence — “White cannot get...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian and a Headline's Lie: What Chess Instruction Actually SellsIt was half past midnight in my Khulna flat, on a 2026 laptop, with a router...
The Scandinavian Defense: An Opening in 60 Minutes, or Another Promise in Carlsen's Shadow?The time was July 2026. In a third-floor hall of a Dhaka club, the air was sl...
The Headline That Won, the Body That Lost: Six Videos in the Name of the US ChampionshipI read the headline in my Mymensingh bedroom around ten at night. In English:...
A Miniature on an Uzbek Board: The Closed Sicilian's 'Surprise Weapon' and the Economy of the TextbookHook: One Evening in Tashkent, One Opened Folder Late June, 2026. A tournamen...
The Wednesday Archive: Merijn van Delft's Ten-Year Hour from Hamburg to AmsterdamIt is a Wednesday evening in Amsterdam. The light over the canals fades, a...
The Empty Cupboard, Forty Squares: Why Bangladesh's Chess Could Not Write Its Own HistoryThe report came back empty-handed. Eight chapters, thirty-three tables, and i...
Bent Larsen in the Headline, Absent in the Data: A Ledger Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225The headline promised strategy lessons from Bent Larsen. I opened the ledger...
The Tiebreak Knife in Samarkand: India's Silver, Uzbekistan's Gold, and One Result on Board FourHook: What Appeared on the Screen Four in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom...