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Petroff or Scandinavian: A 60-Minute Opening Course, or a Gap in Chess Instructional Marketing?A chess opening can be misidentified, and an entire hour of preparation can...
Bent Larsen's Lesson: What's in Issue 225, and What's MissingIn the last week of September 2026, the ChessBase newsletter arrived. The...
From Hamburg to Amsterdam: Seven Years of an IM's Search for a GM NormOn a 2026 evening, when the results board in a Hamburg tournament hall placed...
Capablanca 2026 and a King's Indian DVD: A Marketing Claim Without a Single Data PointI stopped at the headline. Capablanca, 2026, Buenos Aires, the gold medal — t...
The Issue With the European Club Cup on Its Cover and Not a Single Move InsideTwo in the morning in a Dublin flat, laptop open, notebook beside it. On...
Blockchain Analysis of Scotch Opening Revival and Strategic PreparationThe Scotch Opening has long been considered a harmless and rarely played...
One Late Start, One Replay, One Relegation: The Ledger of the 2026/87 Bundesliga Rules DisputeA match in the 2026/87 German Chess Bundesliga did not start on time. The...
Where the Headline Is News and the Body Is an Ad: The US Chess Championships, So, Liang and Lilov's Six VideosWhere the Headline Is News and the Body Is an Ad: The US Chess Championships,...
Caruana in the Headline, Lilov in the Body: The Ledger and the Lament of Chess Media“Fabiano Caruana targets his fifth consecutive US title” — the headline is...
3.Bc4 and the Honest Lie of Eleven: An Unsettled Ledger Around Samarkand's BodhanaI did not see the table in Samarkand. But I don't need to. Based on my years ...
The Market for Antidotes: 9...a5, a Kazakhstan Headline, and Bangladesh's Empty FolderThe Market for Antidotes: 9...a5, a Kazakhstan Headline, and Bangladesh's Emp...
Learning Strategy from Bent Larsen — A Headline Missing from Its Own LedgerOn the cover of ChessBase Magazine #225 is the line "Learning strategy from...
The Gap Between Headline and Body: A King's Indian DVD Wrapped in a Tsaghkadzor Schools HeadlineLast night in Dublin, with the clock near two, I was scrolling a chess feed....
A Tsaghkadzor Headline and a 9...a5 DVD: Auditing a Mismatch in Chess NewsThe headline arrived from Tsaghkadzor, the Armenian hill town: the European...
Budapest's 21/22: India's First Gold and Bangladesh's Empty ColumnSeptember 22, 2026, Budapest. Before the final-round result was even announce...
From Shared Gold to Table Gold: India's Budapest Double and the Empty Chair at Purana Paltan1. The Green Light on the Router August 2026. In a flat in Khulna it is twent...
Samarkand R7: One Match Point of Lead, Zero Move NumbersDublin, two in the morning. Dhaka runs five hours ahead of me; it is already...
A Round Seven Headline, a Thirteen-Point DVD: Who Audits 9...a5 in the Bayonet Attack?The headline about Samarkand round seven surfaced on my screen at two in the...
The Board-Four World Champion: India's Load Management and Praggnanandhaa's Unfinished WorkFive rounds in, India's Open team scoreboard is unblemished: five matches, fi...
After the Crypto Lights Went Out, the Ledger on the Chessboard RemainsIn the last week of May 2026, a crypto exchange's name got stitched onto an...
Pragg Beats Giri, Gukesh Wins Again as India Outclass Netherlands at Chess OlympiadPragg Beats Giri, Gukesh Wins Again as India Outclass Netherlands at Chess...
A Product Dressed as a Defence: The Scotch Game, Kasparov’s 2026 Ghost, and the Phantom Named Egon MattaaqThe two halves of that page did not share a single word. The headline carried...
The Scotch Revival and the Phantom Debut of Egon Mattaaq: What the Ledger SaysThe notebook says one thing; the tape says another. An analysis note on my de...