Chess
Sivanandan in the Headline, the Italian Game in the Body: A Data Audit of 5.e5
ChessBase Magazine #225: An ECCC Headline, Prague 2026 Content, and the Economy of Chess's Middle Class
Total Chess 'Unified Rating System': From the Budapest Pilot to the 2027 Multi-City Tour, What the Paperwork Says and What It Omits
Four Players and an Unfinished Table: Three Empty Rows Inside the Total Chess Tour Pilot
The Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes of Video and the Calendar Nobody Checked
The Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes of Video and the Calendar Nobody CheckedBased on years of tracking Najdorf preparation from broadcast desks, one thin...
King's Indian Mar del Plata: The Three Missing Numbers Behind 9...a5 as an 'Antidote'Last week I opened a chess opening product's promotional text and pressed...
A Budva Headline, an Elephant Gambit Advertisement: What the Thirteen-Point Ledger ConfessesLast week I opened a page. The headline said the European Club Cup had begun ...
NATO Chess Championship: The Truth Behind Vahap Sanal's Win and the Overlooked World of the NajdorfThere is a strange paradox in the world of chess. When a player wins a big...
Total Chess Budapest Pilot: A Rating-System Claim, Six Facts and One Empty ColumnOn the afternoon of August 29, 2026, in my flat in Kolkata, I read the press...
Sivanandan in the Headline, the Italian Game in the Body: A Data Audit of 5.e5The title says “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls with Bodhana...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: An Opening Product Sells 'Strategy' With Not a Single Game on the ReceiptA Saturday rapid evening at a club in south Kolkata, twelve boards, and on...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Does Not Win Titles — Boards 4 to 6 DoThe round-three pairings came up on the screen and there was no drama in them...
A Benko Gambit Review With Fritz 20 Bullet Points: Inside a Chess Product Review's Identity ConflictA review package landed in front of me this week. The title at the top read:...
The 'Antidote' of 9...a5: Where the Engine Doesn't Know — or Where the Blurb Outran the EngineLast week I was reading a product blurb for an opening DVD. The claim was...
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating' Claim: The Hidden Agenda Between the Budapest Pilot and the 2027 TourBudapest, November 10, 2026. Ten weeks before the pilot event of the Total...
ChessBase Magazine #225: An ECCC Headline, Prague 2026 Content, and the Economy of Chess's Middle ClassThe headline said European Club Cup. The body did not contain a single board....
When a Win Becomes 'Comfortable': The Arithmetic of the European Club Cup and Chess's Professional Middle ClassThe product page for ChessBase Magazine issue 225 carries a large, unambiguou...
Total Chess 'Unified Rating System': From the Budapest Pilot to the 2027 Multi-City Tour, What the Paperwork Says and What It OmitsBetween 10 and 21 November 2026, Budapest will host a tournament the organise...
A Budva Headline, a Nineteenth-Century Gamble, and Sixty Minutes of Video: A Report from the Corner of the Board the Cameras Never ReachHook Two worlds sat on the same web page. At the top, a ticker sliding past:...
Four Players and an Unfinished Table: Three Empty Rows Inside the Total Chess Tour PilotThe press release of 29 August 2026 contained seven information points. Six...
9...a5 Against the King's Indian Bayonet: An 'Antidote' Claim, and the Empty Space Where the Evidence Should BeIn the sixth round of a club tournament in Singapore that evening, the player...