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28.5 out of 44 in Samarkand: Where India's Silver Came From, and the Four Games That Fixed a Medal's Colour
A Perfect Score, An Incomplete Report: The Missing Board in Club Cup Coverage and Chess's Real Economy
The Revival of the Scotch Opening: Mikhalchishin's Strategic Lesson
A Fifth Crown in the Headline, a Six-Video Ad in the Body: The Ledger of One Chess Page
Behind Sasikiran’s Bavarian Title: FRITZ 20’s Training-Revolution Claim and the Evidence GapG. N. Gopal Sasikiran won the Bavarian Championship on tiebreaks, according t...
Sindarov's Knight-Bishop Web: Why Nakamura's Own Weapon Turned on Him After Move 17When Javokhir Sindarov sat down with the black pieces at Clutch Chess in Sain...
28.5 out of 44 in Samarkand: Where India's Silver Came From, and the Four Games That Fixed a Medal's ColourI read the final-round pairing sheet from Samarkand three times. India's boar...
A Perfect Score, An Incomplete Report: The Missing Board in Club Cup Coverage and Chess's Real EconomyApril 2026, the second floor of the federation building in Purana Paltan. The...
NATO in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: The Arithmetic Gap in Chess NewsTwo in the morning. Dublin wind against the window glass, Dhaka five hours...
The Board's Ledger and the Money: Why Secrets Cost More in the Age of Superhuman EnginesAn Autumn Night Where No Number Exists The blockchain piece arrived in my han...
The Silent Economy of Chess Knowledge: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Hidden Labour Market Behind Club ChessWhen a chess product page calls out a tournament name in its headline, and th...
The Revival of the Scotch Opening: Mikhalchishin's Strategic LessonThe Scotch Opening had long been considered a harmless and rarely played...
The Revival of the Scotch Opening: From Kasparov to MikhalchishinThe evolution of opening theory in chess history is always a fascinating...
A Fifth Crown in the Headline, a Six-Video Ad in the Body: The Ledger of One Chess PageLast week, late at night, I opened a chess news page because a search result...
A Product in Bent Larsen's Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess ContentIt is nearly three in the morning in my Mymensingh bedroom. The green bar on...
Olympiad's 'King Walk' and 5.e5! — The Evidence Crisis of an Opening ColumnThe headline promised Alexei Sarana's king walk. A grandmaster marching his...