Chess
From SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT, and $400,000 in St. Louis: A Ledger Standing on One Institution
2026 in the Title, 2026 in the Body: When a Scotch-Defense Ad File Dressed Up as FIDE Ratings
21/22 and Tk 11 Lakh: Budapest's Gold and Dhaka's Ledger
A Samarkand Headline, a Mar del Plata Body: The Bayonet Attack ‘Antidote’ and the Ledger of an Empty Board
Chess Without Evidence: What an Empty Analysis Reveals About Sports JournalismChess Without Evidence: The Limits of Analysis When the Facts Are Missing A...
Two Headlines, One Player: Hong Kong's Team Crown and Ding Liren's Unfinished LedgerAt two in the morning in Dublin, with three boards still open on my screen, t...
Timur Turlov Is Not the FIDE President: One Wrong Headline, One Advertisement, and Bangladesh's Empty BoardThe headline read: "FIDE President Timur Turlov meets Cyprus President Nikos...
Learning from Kasparov's 2026 Match: The Revival of the Scotch Opening and Counter-StrategiesThe Scotch Opening holds a unique place in chess history. The move sequence...
A Headline That Promises News, a Body That Sells a Course: The US Championships and Black's Anti-1.d4 PlanTwo in the morning in a Delhi flat, the ceiling fan turning, and the US...
Eleven on Board One: Samarkand’s 2504 and the Empty Cupboard at Purana PaltanA scoresheet carried out of the tournament hall in Samarkand had one figure...
From SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT, and $400,000 in St. Louis: A Ledger Standing on One InstitutionThe oldest chess magazine in the German language, SCHACH, will launch its fir...
2026 in the Title, 2026 in the Body: When a Scotch-Defense Ad File Dressed Up as FIDE RatingsI opened a file in my Boston apartment last night. The name read: "FIDE Ratin...
Budapest 2026: India's First Chess Olympiad Gold Is a Pipeline Ledger, Not a Talent MiracleWhen India's gold was sealed at the SYMA Sports Arena in Budapest on a late...
21/22 and Tk 11 Lakh: Budapest's Gold and Dhaka's LedgerSection 1: Budapest, 2 a.m., sixteen zones The paper board in my room in...
A Samarkand Headline, a Mar del Plata Body: The Bayonet Attack ‘Antidote’ and the Ledger of an Empty BoardTwo files sat side by side on my desk last Sunday night. One was a headline,...
A Samarkand Headline and 9...a5: Where Chess Sells Textbooks but Cannot Hire CoachesLast night, at my kitchen table in Saint Petersburg, I opened a piece of...
Samarkand Round 7: One Result in the Headline, Ten Ads in the BodySamarkand Round 7: One Result in the Headline, Ten Ads in the Body Last week ...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Bayonet Attack in the Body: The Price of Chess Without EvidenceThe rain that arrives in Delhi at the end of summer stops traffic; it does no...
A Samarkand Headline, a King's Indian Body: The 9...a5 'Antidote' and a Broken LedgerOne morning last week a headline landed on my desk. Round seven at Samarkand,...
Samarkand Women's Chess, One Match Point and an Advertising Shell: Who Is Actually Writing This Page?There is a page in my notebook titled "Things the Scoreboard Cannot See." It...