Chess
Whose Head Holds the Sword: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course, Two Queen Tempi, and the Going Rate for Claims
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Title Says Samarkand, the File Says 27 Miniatures
The Ledger of Five Grandmasters: Where Bangladesh's Chess Pipeline Account Went Missing
The Ledger of the Yellow Board: Searching for Bangladesh's Missing GM Factory
A Final in Fujairah, a Shop Window for ChessBase: The Chess Story With No Competitor Named
The DVD That Sells an Attack but Teaches a Defense: The Market Story Behind 9...a5 Against the Bayonet
The Ledger of Five Grandmasters: Where Bangladesh's Chess Pipeline Account Went MissingIn early 2026 the record I have opened most often is not a tournament result....
The Ledger of the Yellow Board: Searching for Bangladesh's Missing GM FactoryThe sound of the heavy iron latch on the Purana Paltan chess hall door still...
A Final in Fujairah, a Shop Window for ChessBase: The Chess Story With No Competitor Named"Fujairah will host the WFCC Grand Prix Final, with the world's best solvers...
The DVD That Sells an Attack but Teaches a Defense: The Market Story Behind 9...a5 Against the BayonetPenang, half past nine at night. The tube light in the club room flickers...
The Board That Never Played in a Stadium: Bangladesh's Five-Grandmaster CeilingDecember 2026. A secondhand laptop on a table in a bedroom in Mymensingh, the...
One Round of Liang–Niemann and ChessBase's Sales Ledger: How a Single Move Became an AdvertisementLate October 2026, close to two in the morning. In my Khulna flat the laptop...
Caruana in the Headline, Lilov in the Body: The Empty Board of Chess MediaLate at night, at my desk in Penang, I opened a link. The headline was...
The 3.Bc4 Headline and the 2504 Ledger: What Actually Happened in SamarkandSeptember 2026, Samarkand. The headline read: "Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc...
One Pawn, One Square: Erigaisi–Laohawirapap, 5.e5, and the Quiet Economy of Opening KnowledgeOne Pawn, One Square: Erigaisi–Laohawirapap, 5.e5, and the Quiet Economy of...
Whose Head Holds the Sword: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course, Two Queen Tempi, and the Going Rate for ClaimsHook: A Queen That Walked Twice in Seven Moves At a Delhi club evening last...
Savitha Shri: A Father's Career Gamble and the Arithmetic Gap Inside 7/7Hook: A Paused Stream, Two Boards In a Mymensingh bedroom the router is warm,...
The Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Course, One Lost Tempo, and the Halo Shadow Over the Chess Market11:40 at night. On a laptop in a Penang flat a digital board glows, and besid...
A Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Body: Auditing an Information ChainI was scrolling a feed near one in the morning last week when a headline...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Title Says Samarkand, the File Says 27 MiniaturesAt three in the morning my secondhand laptop sat open in a bedroom in...
Under the Sword of Damocles: You Cannot Buy a Repertoire in Sixty MinutesLast month, on a club evening in Mymensingh, a thirty-something player sent m...