Chess
The Story Being Lost Behind 15-Year-Old Besou's Lead
One Headline, Zero Crosstables: Who Keeps the Ledger for Rachel Li's 'Stunning' Win
The Testimony of an Empty Ledger: How a Null Analysis Becomes Its Own Dataset
A Bundesliga Dispute, or a Sixty-Minute Advertisement — The Elephant Gambit's Notebook versus the Tape
Major Questions in Chess: Missing Evidence Prevents a Complete Assessment of Players, Competition and the Chess IndustryA chess competition cannot be properly understood through a single match resu...
60 Minutes to a New Black Defence? The Product Blurb That Merged Petroff and Scandinavian into OneThis report is not a tournament story but an investigation into a 60-minute...
The Story Being Lost Behind 15-Year-Old Besou's LeadWhen a fifteen-year-old's name rises to the top of the Bavarian Championship...
India Rout Uzbekistan 2, but Top-Board Questions Remain Before Olympiad FinaleThe most visible figure from Round 10 in Samarkand is 3.5–0.5. India defeated...
Classification Succeeded, Extraction Failed: Why Bangladesh Chess Recognizes Talent but Cannot Build a ProfessionTwo sheets of paper sit on the table in this Saint Petersburg flat. One carri...
One Headline, Zero Crosstables: Who Keeps the Ledger for Rachel Li's 'Stunning' WinThe first thing I did after opening the file was count. The headline carried...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: How a Sideline Gets Sold as an AntidoteAn opening DVD's promo page stopped me at the first line. Across the cover, i...
Capablanca on the Cover, 9...a5 Inside: A Misfired Transfer in the Chess Theory MarketNovember 2026, a club room in Khulna. On the table, a disc in a white plastic...
European Club Cup in the Headline, 27 Miniatures Inside: A Ledger Audit of a Product PageThe page opens and I leave the date column in the ledger blank first. Habit. ...
The Testimony of an Empty Ledger: How a Null Analysis Becomes Its Own DatasetIn the small hours of a morning in 2026, at my Mumbai desk, I opened a file....
A Bundesliga Dispute, or a Sixty-Minute Advertisement — The Elephant Gambit's Notebook versus the TapeThe headline claims a dispute in the Bundesliga. The second line is about a...
g2-g3: The Innocent Pawn Move That Erases the Entire Sicilian LibraryI prefer to think in board geometry, and 3.g2-g3 is exactly the kind of quiet...
Caruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body — The Silent Injury of Chess MediaI opened my chess-news notebook looking for a fresh Fabiano Caruana result. T...