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Samarkand Round 7: China-Kazakhstan Draw, and What the One-Match-Point Margin Actually Reveals2026-11-05When I look at the Round 7 result from Samarkand, I first stop at a number....
Is Poland Really the Indian Women's Team's 'Achilles Heel'? The Round 5 Result Is a Cautionary Tale2026-11-04In Round 5 of the Chess Olympiad, the Indian women's team lost to Poland—the...
What an Antidote Costs: Capablanca's 2026 Gold, a King's Indian DVD, and the Unwritten Ledger of Chess Preparation2026-10-26An open laptop beside a cup of tea in a Purana Paltan tea stall. December 202...
Champions in the Headline, Advertisement in the Body: Where the European Club Cup Story Went Missing2026-10-25Last week I scrolled the ChessBase feed three times over one headline. Bayega...
Eleven Teams Level, the Headline Says Three: Reading the Gap Inside the European Club Cup Table2026-10-24A bedroom in Mymensingh, ten past two in the morning. On the laptop screen, t...
One Rating, Three Clocks: The Sum That Is Missing From the Total Chess Announcement in Budapest2026-10-20I read the 29 August 2026 announcement three times. On the first pass the...
A Headline About Timur Turlov and a Najdorf File: One Title, Two Different GamesThe headline stopped me. "Timur Turlov elected President of FIDE." Directly...
The Blank File, the Stopped Heart: Nobody Keeps the Injury Ledger in Bangladeshi ChessThe Blank File, the Stopped Heart: Nobody Keeps the Injury Ledger in...
Samarkand Round 7: China-Kazakhstan Draw, and What the One-Match-Point Margin Actually RevealsWhen I look at the Round 7 result from Samarkand, I first stop at a number....
Is Poland Really the Indian Women's Team's 'Achilles Heel'? The Round 5 Result Is a Cautionary TaleIn Round 5 of the Chess Olympiad, the Indian women's team lost to Poland—the...
The Five-GM Ceiling: Bangladesh Chess Has a System Failure, Not a Talent ShortageMarch 2026. In a bedroom in Mymensingh, I was opening PGN files of the Nation...
Wei Yi's Counterattack Against the Keymer System: The Olympiad 'Model Game' and the Claims That Cannot Be VerifiedThe game being marketed under Wei Yi's name as a 'masterpiece' and an 'ideal...
The Ledger of Episode #746: Xiong and Liang on the Label, an Advertisement InsideI opened the file by its episode number. The series is called “Game of the...
Liang Beat Niemann, and the US Championship Round 1 Is Being Used as a HookLiang Beat Niemann: What We Know About the Round 1 Result, and What We Do Not...
A Brilliancy in the Headline, Not a Move in the Text: Auditing the ChessBase Magazine #225 PromotionI read the promotional piece for ChessBase Magazine #225 three times. Once fo...
Board Four to the Tiebreak: India's Silver and Bronze Ledger in SamarkandThe pairing sheet was sitting on the press desk. My eye went first to board...
What an Antidote Costs: Capablanca's 2026 Gold, a King's Indian DVD, and the Unwritten Ledger of Chess PreparationAn open laptop beside a cup of tea in a Purana Paltan tea stall. December 202...
Champions in the Headline, Advertisement in the Body: Where the European Club Cup Story Went MissingLast week I scrolled the ChessBase feed three times over one headline. Bayega...
Eleven Teams Level, the Headline Says Three: Reading the Gap Inside the European Club Cup TableA bedroom in Mymensingh, ten past two in the morning. On the laptop screen, t...
Heartbeats in Paltan: Vahap Sanal, Türkiye's NATO Title, and the Empty Chair Nobody CountsI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the tackl...
One Rating, Three Clocks: The Sum That Is Missing From the Total Chess Announcement in BudapestI read the 29 August 2026 announcement three times. On the first pass the...