Chess
44 Games, 13 Winning Positions, 3 Conversions: The Proof That Chess Is Not 'Inexpressive' Sits in the Batumi Scoresheet
Nakamura's One-Day Lead: The Gap Between Clutch Chess Scoreboard and Advertising Copy
Samarkand Round 8, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Question Nobody in the Press Room Asked
Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Course, Carlsen's Shadow, and the Real Frontier of the Scandinavian Defense
Chess44 Games, 13 Winning Positions, 3 Conversions: The Proof That Chess Is Not 'Inexpressive' Sits in the Batumi ScoresheetA line from an interview has been circling my desk all week. A...
ChessFrom Budapest to Batumi: What India's First Olympiad Gold Actually Says, and Why Bangladesh's Ledger Is Still EmptyIn September 2026, when the Indian team rose from the final board in Budapest...
ChessThe Five-Grandmaster Ledger and the Empty Square for a Sixth: Auditing Dhaka's Chess Sponsorship DroughtIn 2026, I sat in a Mumbai hostel room tagging all 169 goals of the 64 matche...
ChessInternational Chess: The Game Beyond the BoardInternational chess today is far more than a board game. It is at once a...
ChessFujairah in the Headline, a Magazine in the Body: The Sport That Crowns World Champions and Names No OneSeven in the morning. Delhi's monsoon had not yet decided how hard it would...
ChessNakamura's One-Day Lead: The Gap Between Clutch Chess Scoreboard and Advertising CopyThe scoresheet says 'Nakamura leads.' But the rest of the scoresheet is blank...
ChessSaint Louis in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: A Structural Gap in Chess's Content EconomyI read the headline and started the clock. Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura,...
ChessSixty Minutes of Repertoire, a Wrong Headline: The Advertising Ledger of the Elephant GambitMy notebook has the date. The headline: “A dispute in the Bundesliga.” Any...
ChessYu Yangyi Beat Ding Liren in Shenzhen's Final Round — The Story Buried Inside a HeadlineOne result, one name — nothing more. In the final match of the Shenzhen...
ChessTwo Courses, One Coach, and an Empty Board: Kavutskiy Enters ChessBaseWhen ChessBase announced its two new FritzTrainer courses, I opened my laptop...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit and an Eleven-Year-Old Record: The Headline That Forgot to Read Its Own Article1. Hook: A headline above the screen, another game below it It was twenty pas...
ChessBudapest's 21 Points: India's First Crown, and the Ledger We Never BalancedBudapest's 21 Points: India's First Crown, and the Ledger We Never Balanced...
ChessSamarkand Round 8, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Question Nobody in the Press Room AskedHook: A Result in the Headline, a Shop in the Body I opened the Samarkand Rou...
ChessSavitha Shri's Seven Wins and a Three-Year Savings Runway: Chess's Real Injury Isn't at the BoardSamarkand, Uzbekistan. Round five. Board five. The clock has passed the...
ChessSamarkand Round 8 and the Sixty-Minute Shadow: A Headline That Failed to Recognise Its Own StoryOn the night of Round 8 in Samarkand, Germany beat Uzbekistan and joined them...
ChessThe Fifth Board Speaks: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Three-Year LedgerI left the Samarkand hall, opened my notebook and wrote one line: quiet chair...
ChessThe Headline Says Samarkand, the Box Says Prague: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Quiet Economics of Training Content, and Bangladesh's Unfinished PipelineLast week two files sat open side by side on my old laptop. The first one was...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: Carlsen's Name, the Scandinavian Defense, and the Arithmetic of the Chess Course EconomyIn the story of Damocles, the real object is not the sword. It is a single...
ChessA One-Hour Sword, a Seventeen-Year Silence: The Scandinavian Defense Promotion and the Real Ledger of a Khulna Chess RoomTuesday, seven in the evening, a club room in Khulna. A printed page is doing...
ChessSword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Course, Carlsen's Shadow, and the Real Frontier of the Scandinavian DefenseThe 'Sword of Damocles' is a 60-minute instructional chess course on the...
ChessSamarkand Round 8: Germany's Shock, the Uzbek Pipeline Crack, and a Headline That Never Saw the Board1. Hook: The Scoresheet and the Headline Were Never in the Same Room What...
ChessFrom Budapest to Batumi: What India's First Olympiad Gold Actually Says, and Why Bangladesh's Ledger Is Still EmptyIn September 2026, when the Indian team rose from the final board in Budapest...
ChessThe Five-Grandmaster Ledger and the Empty Square for a Sixth: Auditing Dhaka's Chess Sponsorship DroughtIn 2026, I sat in a Mumbai hostel room tagging all 169 goals of the 64 matche...
ChessInternational Chess: The Game Beyond the BoardInternational chess today is far more than a board game. It is at once a...
ChessFujairah in the Headline, a Magazine in the Body: The Sport That Crowns World Champions and Names No OneSeven in the morning. Delhi's monsoon had not yet decided how hard it would...
ChessNakamura's One-Day Lead: The Gap Between Clutch Chess Scoreboard and Advertising CopyThe scoresheet says 'Nakamura leads.' But the rest of the scoresheet is blank...
ChessSaint Louis in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: A Structural Gap in Chess's Content EconomyI read the headline and started the clock. Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura,...
ChessSixty Minutes of Repertoire, a Wrong Headline: The Advertising Ledger of the Elephant GambitMy notebook has the date. The headline: “A dispute in the Bundesliga.” Any...
ChessYu Yangyi Beat Ding Liren in Shenzhen's Final Round — The Story Buried Inside a HeadlineOne result, one name — nothing more. In the final match of the Shenzhen...
ChessTwo Courses, One Coach, and an Empty Board: Kavutskiy Enters ChessBaseWhen ChessBase announced its two new FritzTrainer courses, I opened my laptop...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit and an Eleven-Year-Old Record: The Headline That Forgot to Read Its Own Article1. Hook: A headline above the screen, another game below it It was twenty pas...
ChessBudapest's 21 Points: India's First Crown, and the Ledger We Never BalancedBudapest's 21 Points: India's First Crown, and the Ledger We Never Balanced...
ChessSamarkand Round 8, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Question Nobody in the Press Room AskedHook: A Result in the Headline, a Shop in the Body I opened the Samarkand Rou...
ChessSavitha Shri's Seven Wins and a Three-Year Savings Runway: Chess's Real Injury Isn't at the BoardSamarkand, Uzbekistan. Round five. Board five. The clock has passed the...
ChessSamarkand Round 8 and the Sixty-Minute Shadow: A Headline That Failed to Recognise Its Own StoryOn the night of Round 8 in Samarkand, Germany beat Uzbekistan and joined them...
ChessThe Fifth Board Speaks: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Three-Year LedgerI left the Samarkand hall, opened my notebook and wrote one line: quiet chair...
ChessThe Headline Says Samarkand, the Box Says Prague: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Quiet Economics of Training Content, and Bangladesh's Unfinished PipelineLast week two files sat open side by side on my old laptop. The first one was...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: Carlsen's Name, the Scandinavian Defense, and the Arithmetic of the Chess Course EconomyIn the story of Damocles, the real object is not the sword. It is a single...
ChessA One-Hour Sword, a Seventeen-Year Silence: The Scandinavian Defense Promotion and the Real Ledger of a Khulna Chess RoomTuesday, seven in the evening, a club room in Khulna. A printed page is doing...
ChessSword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Course, Carlsen's Shadow, and the Real Frontier of the Scandinavian DefenseThe 'Sword of Damocles' is a 60-minute instructional chess course on the...
ChessSamarkand Round 8: Germany's Shock, the Uzbek Pipeline Crack, and a Headline That Never Saw the Board1. Hook: The Scoresheet and the Headline Were Never in the Same Room What...