Chess
Elephant Gambit: The Courage of 2...d5, a 60-Minute Course, and an Unproven Claim
An Eleven-Year-Old in the Headline, a Sixteen-Year-Old in the File
A Tiebreak Headline, a Course Body: Wesley So’s Fourth US Title and the Autopsy of a Split Report
The Incomplete Arithmetic of a Perfect Start at the European Club Cup, and an Outdated Scotch Lesson
Budva 2026: A 2715 Average, a 115-Point Gap, and the Calculation Nobody Asked For
From Sasikiran’s Title to Fritz 20: How Real Is the Claim of a Chess Training Revolution?Sasikiran won the Bavarian Championship on a tiebreak. That is a single-line...
Elephant Gambit: The Courage of 2...d5, a 60-Minute Course, and an Unproven ClaimA centre is broken on move two. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3, when Black plays 2...d5,...
The Question Nobody Asks in Niaz's Shadow: Bangladesh's Chess Suffers a Patron Drought, Not a Talent DroughtI opened a folder no one had touched in years. Inside was a clipping from 202...
15-Year-Old Besou Leads Bavarian Championship: The Trap of 'Prodigy' Framing in the Dark of Missing Ratings and ScoresHook After round five of the Bavarian Championship, a name appeared on the...
The 5.e5 Detonation of the Modern Italian: Why the Erigaisi-Laohawirapap Game Is a Trap for Club Players — and Why It Isn'tOn a Saturday afternoon in Bangalore, I cleared a stack of old scoresheets of...
The 5.e5! Structure: How an Erigaisi Game Became a Club-Level RepertoireOne move, named 5.e5!. In the Modern branch of the Italian Game, it is the...
The Evidentiary Basis of Chess Reporting: Why News Cannot Be Written on Empty DataEvery sports news report rests on an invisible scaffold of collection,...
Report Cannot Be Produced: Source Material Contains No Sports FactsThe supplied material is not a chess news article. It is a technical...
Nakamura in the Headline, Fritz 20 in the Body: The Match Report That Had No MatchAt a quarter past eleven one night in my Mumbai flat I opened a laptop and a...
An Eleven-Year-Old in the Headline, a Sixteen-Year-Old in the FileAn eleven-year-old in the headline, a sixteen-year-old in the body. The repor...
A Tiebreak Headline, a Course Body: Wesley So’s Fourth US Title and the Autopsy of a Split ReportA Tiebreak Headline, a Course Body: Wesley So’s Fourth US Title and the Autop...
The Incomplete Arithmetic of a Perfect Start at the European Club Cup, and an Outdated Scotch LessonNew York, 2026. At the World Championship board, Garry Kasparov chose an...
Budva 2026: A 2715 Average, a 115-Point Gap, and the Calculation Nobody Asked ForBefore a single of the 108 open teams sat down in Budva, the preview had...
Budva in the Title, a Gambit in the Body: How a 60-Minute Course Advertised Itself as NewsI read thirteen information points. Not one of them mentions Budva. The...
Forty-One National Championships, a Nineteen-Point ACPL Gap and the Lesson of the Benko Gambit: The Chess Content Market Through a Blockchain-Ledger LensIn 2026, aged fifty-two, sitting at a Mumbai desk digitising 1,240 chess game...