Chess
Besou, 15, Co-Leads Bavarian Championship: Regional Result or Premature Prodigy Narrative?
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and One Wrong Headline — Who Is Actually Buying This Board?
The Elephant Gambit Market: A Small Course's Big Lesson in the Chess Coaching Economy
The Olympiad Underdog: The Blockchain of 5.e5!, a Line That Belonged to No Country
The Evidence Gap in Chess Analysis: Why Competitive and Tactical Conclusions Require Original Source MaterialThe supplied Stage-2 analysis does not identify a chess player, tournament,...
Petroff or Scandinavian? Contradictions and Marketing Claims Surround a 60-Minute Chess Opening CourseA chess player considering an opening course needs one basic assurance: the...
The Elephant Gambit: An Opening With a Brochure but No ReceiptA Grandmaster in the Headline, a Sales Pitch in the Body The headline carried...
Besou, 15, Co-Leads Bavarian Championship: Regional Result or Premature Prodigy Narrative?I was staring at the score-sheets piling up from Munich this week when it...
Fifteen-Year-Old Besou Leads Bavarian Championship — But Don't Fall for the Prodigy FrameConsider a name — Hussain Besou, fifteen years old. Midway through the Bavari...
The Promotional Myth of the Scandinavian Defense: Is a 'World-Class Weapon' in 60 Minutes Really Possible?Last week, while browsing online chess course platforms, I stopped at an...
Chigorin in the Title, Italian in the Index: Auditing an Opening ProductAt eleven at night in a Moscow flat I opened the product page. The headline...
The Chess File the Machine Read and Returned EmptyThe classification worked. The label was accurate: chess. The field right aft...
A World Champion on Board Four: The Real Ledger Behind India's 3.5–0.5 SweepThe first thing I checked in Samarkand was not the scoreline. It was the boar...
So and Liang in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: The Report With an Empty BoardI opened the feed and the first line read: “US Championships: So and Liang...
One Result, One Magazine, and Chess's Annotation EconomyThe Round 1 result first surfaced in a place where there were no moves. There...
So's Fourth US Title Came in Tiebreaks — and Moved His Classical Rating by ZeroThe word that stopped my pen as the result went into the notebook was...
A Fourth Crown Settled in Tiebreaks, and the Empty Squares of the CrosstableThe headline runs to twenty-two words. I counted, because that is the habit....
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level, and a Board-One Battle That May Never HappenIn December 2026, at a tea stall in Purana Paltan, a club secretary slid a...
Carlsen's Admission: Why Chess at 35 Is No Longer What It WasOn a Wednesday evening in a Budapest hotel lobby, the first thing I noticed w...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and One Wrong Headline — Who Is Actually Buying This Board?Twelve minutes past one in the morning. On a balcony table in Penang the wate...
The Elephant Gambit Market: A Small Course's Big Lesson in the Chess Coaching EconomyA headline announced that the European Club Cup was beginning in Budva. Not o...
The Sixty-Minute Elephant Gambit: A Wrong Headline and an Incomplete Receipte4 e5 2. Nf3 d5!? — the black pawn lands on d5 on move two. Last month I open...
Caruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body: The Sales Pitch Behind the US ChampionshipChennai, 2026. I was with the Bangladesh team, and I missed a registration...
Bundesliga in the Title, Elephant Gambit on the Board: A Forensic Reading of Mismatched MetadataLate last week, at three in the morning, I opened an article on a secondhand...
A Decade of Wednesday Evenings: Merijn van Delft and the Infrastructure of Chess MemoryEvery Wednesday evening, in a quiet room in Amsterdam, a laptop opens. On the...