Chess
The Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes: Petroff or Scandinavian, and the Questions Behind the Marketing
Chess Beyond the Board: Rankings, Formats and a New Global Balance
Four Stars in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: A Ledger Gap in Chess Media
The 2715 Trap: In Budva, the Number That Makes Favourites Does Not Make Champions
The Sixty-Minute Gambit, Two Headlines, and the Quiet Arithmetic of the Course Economy
The Empty File Is Itself a Result: Auditing a Chess Data Pipeline
ChessThe Knight on the Rim and the Preparation Gap: Black’s Plans Against Seven Offbeat OpeningsHook One of chess’s best-known warnings says that a knight on the rim is dim....
ChessThe Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes: Petroff or Scandinavian, and the Questions Behind the MarketingA single inaccurate move can undo hours of preparation in chess. With opening...
ChessElephant Gambit: Surprise Weapon or Overstated Commercial Promise?A chess opening can reveal its entire character on the second move. After 1.e...
ChessThree Times Gaprindashvili Cup: India's Depth Wins, But the Ledger of Crownless TitlesTake the team score sheet from Samarkand. In the Open section, India and...
ChessChess Beyond the Board: Rankings, Formats and a New Global BalanceInternational chess has reached a stage where results matter no less than...
ChessChess in the Engine Era: The New Equation of CompetitionChess is no longer merely a pastime. Over the past two decades it has...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense: Promotion, Chess Substance and Market Analysis of a Training VideoIn the growing market for chess opening instruction, promotional videos often...
ChessCapablanca in the Title, 9...a5 in the Body: Auditing a Chess Opening Product's ClaimsOne a.m. in Penang, the laptop's glow on a cold cup of tea. On screen sits th...
ChessFour Stars in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: A Ledger Gap in Chess MediaLast week I opened a link. The headline was unambiguous: Clutch Chess: Caruan...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Result and the Gaps in the LedgerWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in a tiebreak. Beside that single sentence the...
ChessThe Headline That Replaced FIDE's President: Turlov, Cyprus and the Arithmetic of a Broken PageI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The page that reached...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Budget, Board Order, and the Arithmetic of a 2715 AverageIn the hotel lobby in Budva, the chess clocks are not ticking in unison. Each...
ChessThe 2715 Trap: In Budva, the Number That Makes Favourites Does Not Make ChampionsOn the tournament hall wall in Budva, the pairing board goes up at nine in th...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Gambit, Two Headlines, and the Quiet Arithmetic of the Course EconomyOn a September evening in Saint Petersburg, I was scrolling when a headline...
ChessThe Empty File Is Itself a Result: Auditing a Chess Data PipelineOn a September morning at my Moscow desk I opened a file that was supposed to...
ChessThe Incomplete Row of Shenzhen: Ding Liren, ChessBase #225, and a Result Nobody Wrote DownThere is a blank cell sitting on page 12 of my notebook. On the left I have...
ChessKarsten Müller, Architect of the Endgame: Chess's Fatigue-Body and the Economics of InstructionI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the tackl...
ChessLiang–Niemann, One Result and Twenty-Seven Miniatures: How ChessBase #225 Turned an Ad into NewsLast October, when the Round 1 results of the US Championship scrolled across...
Chess3.Bc4 Against the Sicilian: An Eleven-Year-Old's Reckoning in Samarkand"Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 — seriously?" You have to stop at that...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf, an Empty Page for FIDE: The Headline That LiedLast week a feed item landed on my desk. The headline was enormous: "Main...
ChessCarlsen's Name, a Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense Course and the Silent Economy of Chess EducationThe Scandinavian Defense will make your life easy — that exact sentence sat i...
ChessGreatest Olympiad Underdogs - The Blockchain Underdog: Birth of an Unknown Protocol and Theoretical AnalysisGreatest Olympiad Underdogs - The Blockchain Underdog: Birth of an Unknown...
ChessThe Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes: Petroff or Scandinavian, and the Questions Behind the MarketingA single inaccurate move can undo hours of preparation in chess. With opening...
ChessElephant Gambit: Surprise Weapon or Overstated Commercial Promise?A chess opening can reveal its entire character on the second move. After 1.e...
ChessThree Times Gaprindashvili Cup: India's Depth Wins, But the Ledger of Crownless TitlesTake the team score sheet from Samarkand. In the Open section, India and...
ChessChess Beyond the Board: Rankings, Formats and a New Global BalanceInternational chess has reached a stage where results matter no less than...
ChessChess in the Engine Era: The New Equation of CompetitionChess is no longer merely a pastime. Over the past two decades it has...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense: Promotion, Chess Substance and Market Analysis of a Training VideoIn the growing market for chess opening instruction, promotional videos often...
ChessCapablanca in the Title, 9...a5 in the Body: Auditing a Chess Opening Product's ClaimsOne a.m. in Penang, the laptop's glow on a cold cup of tea. On screen sits th...
ChessFour Stars in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body: A Ledger Gap in Chess MediaLast week I opened a link. The headline was unambiguous: Clutch Chess: Caruan...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Result and the Gaps in the LedgerWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in a tiebreak. Beside that single sentence the...
ChessThe Headline That Replaced FIDE's President: Turlov, Cyprus and the Arithmetic of a Broken PageI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The page that reached...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Budget, Board Order, and the Arithmetic of a 2715 AverageIn the hotel lobby in Budva, the chess clocks are not ticking in unison. Each...
ChessThe 2715 Trap: In Budva, the Number That Makes Favourites Does Not Make ChampionsOn the tournament hall wall in Budva, the pairing board goes up at nine in th...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Gambit, Two Headlines, and the Quiet Arithmetic of the Course EconomyOn a September evening in Saint Petersburg, I was scrolling when a headline...
ChessThe Empty File Is Itself a Result: Auditing a Chess Data PipelineOn a September morning at my Moscow desk I opened a file that was supposed to...
ChessThe Incomplete Row of Shenzhen: Ding Liren, ChessBase #225, and a Result Nobody Wrote DownThere is a blank cell sitting on page 12 of my notebook. On the left I have...
ChessKarsten Müller, Architect of the Endgame: Chess's Fatigue-Body and the Economics of InstructionI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the tackl...
ChessLiang–Niemann, One Result and Twenty-Seven Miniatures: How ChessBase #225 Turned an Ad into NewsLast October, when the Round 1 results of the US Championship scrolled across...
Chess3.Bc4 Against the Sicilian: An Eleven-Year-Old's Reckoning in Samarkand"Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 — seriously?" You have to stop at that...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf, an Empty Page for FIDE: The Headline That LiedLast week a feed item landed on my desk. The headline was enormous: "Main...
ChessCarlsen's Name, a Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense Course and the Silent Economy of Chess EducationThe Scandinavian Defense will make your life easy — that exact sentence sat i...
ChessGreatest Olympiad Underdogs - The Blockchain Underdog: Birth of an Unknown Protocol and Theoretical AnalysisGreatest Olympiad Underdogs - The Blockchain Underdog: Birth of an Unknown...