Chess
Not a Bundesliga Dispute, but an Elephant Gambit Advertisement: The Title-Body Disconnect as a Structural Anomaly
Prague's Receipt, Saint Louis's Headline: The Ledger That Does Not Add Up in ChessBase #225
Six Videos, Seven Openings — The Chess-Preparation Market and the Arithmetic of an Empty Board
An Opening Lesson Behind the Olympiad Underdog Mask: The Thirteen Receipt-less Claims of the 5.e5! Gambit
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Identity Confusion Behind a 60-Minute Chess Opening CourseA move made before the game begins can sometimes determine the character of a...
Sixty Minutes, One Missing Colour: An Italian Blade Inside a Chigorin SleeveThe second-floor room above a hardware shop in Khulna held a Saturday rapid....
Five Grandmasters, Thirty-Seven Years, One Empty Corridor: The Arithmetic of Bangladeshi ChessFour squares are live on the board. One king, one rook, and two pawns — one...
Benko in the Title, Fritz in the Body: Auditing an Opening CourseAt 1:47 in the morning I opened the tab with an empty spreadsheet already...
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Ledger of a King's Indian DVDBuenos Aires, 2026. The Olympiad. Cuba's first board was José Raúl Capablanca...
Not a Bundesliga Dispute, but an Elephant Gambit Advertisement: The Title-Body Disconnect as a Structural AnomalyThe article's title mentions 'A dispute in the Bundesliga.' However, the...
So and Liang in the Headline, Six Videos on the Board: A Packaging Fault in Chess and Bangladesh's Empty CupboardOn a February evening in my Khulna flat I opened the laptop by the window. Th...
A Najdorf Update, Not FIDE News: Accounting for a Mislabelled Headline and Its Blind SpotA Signal of Theoretical Instability When I began counting, the gap between...
Prague's Receipt, Saint Louis's Headline: The Ledger That Does Not Add Up in ChessBase #225Open the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 and the first thing you mee...
Six Videos, Seven Openings — The Chess-Preparation Market and the Arithmetic of an Empty BoardSix videos. Seven openings. The gap between those two numbers is the first...
An Opening Lesson Behind the Olympiad Underdog Mask: The Thirteen Receipt-less Claims of the 5.e5! GambitThe headline read "The Greatest Olympiad Underdogs." Two or three paragraphs...
Why Silver Cut Like Gold in Samarkand: India's Olympiad Ledger, Read from a Mymensingh BedroomFrom a Mymensingh bedroom I learned that the stadium is only a screen. Deep a...
Group B Gold, Two GM Norms and a Calendar Gap: Auditing Vietnam's Chess ResultThe result reached my flat in Khulna at 2:11 a.m. on September 18. A...
Samarkand in the Title, 27 Miniatures Inside: An Audit of a File MismatchSamarkand in the Title, 27 Miniatures Inside: An Audit of a File Mismatch Las...
A Samarkand Result in the Headline, a Scandinavian Course in the Body: An Autopsy of a Headline-Body FractureThe headline was a result. The body was an advertisement. “Samarkand Round 8...
Seven from Seven on a Reserve Board: Savitha Shri's Ledger and Her Father's Exhausted FundThat round in Samarkand ran nearly five hours. Two separate stories were...
Sword of Damocles: The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes — Course-Economy Claims vs Board ArithmeticA 13-point promotional blurb landed in my inbox: a 60-minute video course on...
Savitha Shri: A Father's Resigned Job, a 7/7 — and a Scoresheet With No Move NumbersSamarkand, a Thursday. The clock was brushing five hours. On board one of...
Savitha Shri: Seven Wins in Seven, a Three-Year Runway, and the Olympiad's Fifth BoardA father sits in a living room in Chennai, watching a laptop. On the screen i...