Chess
The Shadow of Move 17: Sindarov Wins in Nakamura's Own Line, and Our Rush to Read Form
Hong Kong Team Rapid's 5-1 Final and Ding Liren's Form: Reading a Headline Contradiction
Nakamura in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: A Seven-Point Audit of Chess Journalism's Trust Deficit
Merijn van Delft: One GM Norm, 520 Weeks of ChessBase, and the Ledger Nobody Keeps
Six Videos, One Quote, and the Ledger Behind the Word 'Undervalued' in Chess
The Anti-Scotch Prescription and Keymer's Name: The Gap Between a Headline and a Board
The Shadow of Move 17: Sindarov Wins in Nakamura's Own Line, and Our Rush to Read FormIn Saint Louis, Javokhir Sindarov's fingers hovered a beat longer over the...
Hussain Besou Among the Bavarian Championship Leaders: Talent Signal or an Incomplete Story?A single word often carries too much weight in chess reporting: prodigy....
Hong Kong Team Rapid's 5-1 Final and Ding Liren's Form: Reading a Headline ContradictionThe final scoreline read 5-1, and the second leg read 5-1 again. At the World...
London, Colle, Torre, Trompowsky: Where Four-System Preparation BreaksTwelve minutes on the clock, eleven moves on the board. On a December night I...
Fujairah to Host WFCC Grand Prix Final: A Headline That Masks a Vacuum of InformationThe city of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates is set to host the Grand Pri...
Nakamura in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: A Seven-Point Audit of Chess Journalism's Trust DeficitI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In 2026, in the BCF...
Merijn van Delft: One GM Norm, 520 Weeks of ChessBase, and the Ledger Nobody KeepsMerijn van Delft is a Dutch International Master who spent many years in...
The Italian Game 5.e5! — An Underdog Weapon or an Unverified Claim?"Greatest Olympiad Underdogs" — the headline says Olympiad, but inside is the...
Six Videos, One Quote, and the Ledger Behind the Word 'Undervalued' in ChessIn September 2026 the FIDE World Cup was running in Tbilisi. A 128-player...
The Anti-Scotch Prescription and Keymer's Name: The Gap Between a Headline and a BoardPenang, 2:15 a.m. A course page surfaced on my phone and the headline was...
Seed 47, Average 2456, Three Empty Chairs: The Ledger Behind Vietnam's “Olympiad Gold”The final round ended with a draw against Kazakhstan, and that was enough for...
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense, an Uncited Game, and the Empty Cell in the DataThirteen points. A course advertisement. Each point short, tidy, clean. Point...
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague Contents Page: A Data Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225Hook Late last Sunday, my ledger's fifth column recorded an anomaly. A chess...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Hanging Sword, a Missing Game Number, and a Sixty-Minute ReceiptLast week I was sitting in my Moscow flat reading a product page for a chess...
Samarkand 2026: Seven Wins from a Reserve Board, and One Family's Balance Sheet“Five or six years, maybe even ten.” That was one father in Chennai estimatin...
A Prague File Under a Samarkand Headline: The Economics of Chess Training and One Metadata FractureA Prague File Under a Samarkand Headline The label on the file said Samarkand...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian BodyA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body Hook: The page where a tournament...
A Samarkand Scoreline, a Scandinavian Sales Page: Auditing a Mismatched SourceLate one August evening I was sitting in my Moscow flat scraping the current...
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Ledger: What the Samarkand Reserve Board Really OpenedSamarkand, hour five. On board four of India's women's team match, a...
Seven From Seven on the Reserve Board: Savitha Shri's Hero Story Is Really a Budget StoryThe team hall in Samarkand was creeping toward the five-hour mark, and two...
The Headline Says Germany-Uzbekistan; the Body Sells the ScandinavianMoscow, a February morning, snow on the window glass, the coffee cold an hour...
Sword of Damocles: A Promise to Learn the Scandinavian in One Hour, and a Body That Sits for Four Hours Fifty-Two MinutesApril 2026. I flew from Boston to Dhaka for the Premier Division Chess League...
Sword of Damocles: The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes, and the Uneven Promises of the Chess MarketThe diagram on my laptop screen was still unfinished in the Purana Paltan hal...
Samarkand Headline, Scandinavian Body: The Chess Ledger That Will Not BalanceIn mid-2026, in the chess hall at Purana Paltan, on the day I filed my first...
A Samarkand Label, Prague Cargo: The Quiet Economy of Chess NewsIn Saint Petersburg the clock is just touching six on a January morning, the...