Chess
Fujairah headline, ChessBase promotion: the information gap in the WFCC Final story
The 5.e5 Trap: One Erigaisi Game, Sveshnikov's Imprimatur, and an Untested Promise for Club Players
Six Videos, Twelve Openings, Zero Moves: Auditing the Preparation Product Beneath a Giri–Abdusattorov Headline
Seventeen Years of Silence: The Steel Cupboard, the Coffee Ring, and the Board That Remembers What the Terraces Forgot
Chess Is Massively Undervalued: A Quote, Six Videos and the Title-Body Mismatch
The World Champion on Board Four: India's Samarkand Gold Chase Now Rests on One Shoulder
A Country of Five Grandmasters: Bangladesh's Thirty-Eight Year Flat Line on the ChessboardThe noise in a chess hall changes in the last five minutes on the clock....
A Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Advertisement: The Final That Names No SolverThe headline on the ChessBase page runs one line: Fujairah will host the WFCC...
Fujairah headline, ChessBase promotion: the information gap in the WFCC Final storyA report that opens with the announcement that Fujairah will host the WFCC...
Chigorin in the Title, Italian in the Body: The Contradiction Exposed Around Libiszewski's Chess Repertoire ProductChigorin in the Title, Italian in the Body: The Contradiction Inside...
The 5.e5 Trap: One Erigaisi Game, Sveshnikov's Imprimatur, and an Untested Promise for Club PlayersHalf past eleven at night. On a laptop screen in a Delhi flat, a club-level...
Six Videos, Twelve Openings, Zero Moves: Auditing the Preparation Product Beneath a Giri–Abdusattorov HeadlineHook The link arrived around eleven at night. Two names in the headline — Ani...
The Headline Sells a Game, the Body Sells a Course: Six Videos and Zero Moves in the Giri–Abdusattorov FileI opened the file at seven in the evening. The headline read: Giri vs...
There Is No Game in 'Game of the Week #745': Six Videos, One Headline, and the Quiet Ledger of the Chess Coaching MarketBefore opening the page I was almost certain what I would find. The headline...
2715 in Budva: An Average Built by Budget, Not TalentAt a quarter to three last Sunday I was scrolling the open-section entry list...
The New Market for the Benko Gambit: In the Ledger of Chess Software Sales, Who Writes the Press Release and Who Writes the ReviewOne afternoon in May, at my desk in Moscow, I opened a product page. The titl...
The Growing Impact of Blockchain Technology: New Horizons in the Sports IndustryBlockchain technology has initiated a new revolution in the sports industry....
Seventeen Years of Silence: The Steel Cupboard, the Coffee Ring, and the Board That Remembers What the Terraces ForgotIn the west corner of the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana Paltan...
9...a5 and a President's Photo: Two Truths in One HeadlineOn an August evening I was scrolling a feed at my kitchen table in Saint...
Nepo in the Headline, 1.d4 d5 on the Board: A Ledger of One Dragon in the Chess-Preparation MarketLast week a newsletter arrived in my inbox. It is called “The Monthly Dragon”...