Chess
A Tiebreak Crown, Six Videos, and a Missing Crosstable
That Wednesday Room: Merijn van Delft and the Quiet Profession of Chess Media
Where Bent Larsen Isn't: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess-Content Economy
FIDE in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Broken Label in Chess's Information Chain
The Games Arrive After the Numbers: Reading Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Olympiad Report Card
ChessThe 'Antidote' to 9...a5 and Capablanca's 2026: The DVD With an Empty Engine ColumnI opened the file for one reason and finished it for another. The cover...
ChessA Tiebreak Crown, Six Videos, and a Missing CrosstableThe first sentence of the headline reports that Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruan...
ChessThat Wednesday Room: Merijn van Delft and the Quiet Profession of Chess MediaAt eight o'clock on a Wednesday evening, in a small study in Amsterdam, the...
ChessWhere Bent Larsen Isn't: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chess-Content EconomyThe download alert arrived in my Khulna flat at 7:40 in the evening. The file...
ChessFIDE in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Broken Label in Chess's Information ChainLast week my feed pushed an item at me titled “Main Decisions of the FIDE...
ChessThe Games Arrive After the Numbers: Reading Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Olympiad Report CardThe Turkish Chess Federation's statement arrived with the numbers first and t...
Chess9...a5 and the Missing Receipt: A King's Indian Repertoire DVD, the Language of Marketing, and the Hole Where Data Should BeThe title was soft, caring, almost familial: ChessMom returns: Supporting...
ChessItalian Game in the Olympiad's Shadow: The 5 e5 Line, Sarana's King Walk, and an Unfinished Headline1. Hook — The Moves Nobody Wrote Down A king walked. That is what the headlin...
ChessA Samarkand Label on a King's Indian Bottle: Testing the 9...a5 'Antidote'The file I opened at my Bangalore desk on a Tuesday morning had two pages...
ChessSarana's King Walk and the 5.e5 Ledger: A Line Sold Without a ScoresheetThe page in my ledger is still blank. At the top I have written: "60 Minutes...
ChessGame of the Week #740: Erigaisi’s Name, the Gamble of e5, and the Data Nobody ShowedThe fifth move was the story, not the seventeenth. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf...
ChessA King's Walk, an Empty Folder, and the Market Price of 5.e5Last Thursday, three in the morning, a scanned page from an old magazine...
ChessWhere the Board Wasn't: ChessBase Magazine #225, a Samarkand Headline, and the Ledger of TrainingThe headline carried a board: Samarkand, round eight, women's section, China...
ChessFrom Samarkand to Prague: How a Filename Turned Into a Receipt for a Training ProductThe file was named Samarkand. Inside, it was Prague. On a Moscow desk, my hab...
ChessSword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Real Bill on the BoardMy old notebook is titled “Things the Scoreboard Cannot See.” Last Thursday, ...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Prague File: Where the Label and the Record DisagreeThe first line of the file was Samarkand. Round eight, women's section, China...