Chess
The Scotch Revival and the Market for an Antidote: From Kasparov's 2026 to a ChessBase Training Video
The 5.e5 Ledger: The Italian Game's Modern Line, Its Traps, and the Audit of Missing Numbers
The Sword of Damocles: What a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course Can and Cannot Teach
A Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Body: When Chess News Got Separated From Its Own Reality
A Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Body: The Block That Never Validated in the Chess Market
A Ratings Headline, a Scotch Advertisement: Auditing One Page, Line by Line
A Ratings Headline, a Scotch Advertisement: Auditing One Page, Line by LineLast week the October 2026 cell in my ratings spreadsheet was still empty. Th...
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 on the Board: How a Product Listing Wore a Round Report's MaskThe headline arrived in the morning feed: "Samarkand R10 (women): Kazakhstan...
Capablanca's 2026 Gold and the King's Indian 9...a5: Auditing the Two Ledgers of a DVD AdvertisementOpen the file and the first thing that strikes you is not a move. It is an...
European Club Cup 2026: The 2715 Average and the Silent Ledger of 22 Against 108In the winter of 2026, I was doing something strange at a football desk in...
Empty Squares, Empty Fields: The Architecture of Data Absence in Bangladeshi ChessEmpty Squares, Empty Fields: The Architecture of Data Absence in Bangladeshi...
The Scotch Revival and the Market for an Antidote: From Kasparov's 2026 to a ChessBase Training VideoFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. On a pause...
The 5.e5 Ledger: The Italian Game's Modern Line, Its Traps, and the Audit of Missing NumbersThe 5.e5 Ledger: The Italian Game's Modern Line, Its Traps, and the Audit of...
The Headline Said Kazakhstan, the Board Said King's Indian: The Ledger of a Chess DVDOn Monday morning the file that landed on my desk carried a headline about a...
The File That Held No FIDE Assembly: One Hour of Najdorf and the Arithmetic of the Theory MarketLast month, late one night in Delhi, I was scrolling a news feed. Tea in hand...
5.e5!: A Bold Move for the Club Board and the Dossier of an Unfinished ClaimIn March 2026 the boards went dark. The Premier Division league was suspended...
One Move, Three Replies, and an Empty Source Box1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.e5! — a five-move sequence packaged a...
The Sword of Damocles: What a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course Can and Cannot TeachMy notebook still holds the arithmetic of that rapid game: eleven moves, and...
Samarkand's Scoreline, a 60-Minute Video: The Mislabeled Chess FeedAt 2:14 in the morning a headline surfaced in my feed — “Samarkand R8 (open):...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes, One Tempo's Debt, and the Weight of Carlsen's NameSeven in the evening, Penang. A small club room, three boards, and at one of...
Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: Carlsen in the Ad, a Blank in the ScoresheetA thirteen-point promotional copy. It landed a few days ago — an advertisemen...