Chess
ChessNakamura in the Headline, Software Ad in the Body: The Missing Ledger in Clutch Chess Coverage2026-10-28Two in the morning in Dublin. Fog on the window, seven in the morning on...
ChessWhat Is One Move Worth? Liang-Niemann, ChessBase, and the Market Price of a Result2026-10-11The American Chess Championship's first round ended, and the result...
ChessThe Silent Board and the Loud Mistake: A Tactical Audit of Chess's 'Inexpressiveness' Question2026-10-08Two people sit at a chess table. No emotion on their faces, no movement in...
ChessBlockchain's Chessboard: 5.e5! and the Ledger Crisis of Unverified Analysis2026-10-02Based on my forty-two years of watching matches, the most dangerous underdog ...
Empty Input, Full Template: The Eleven Cells Chess Analysis Never FilledTwo in the morning in Dublin, rain against the window. A document opens on...
Chess Analysis Finds No Verifiable Event, Player or Tournament InformationBefore a chess game can be explained, the names of the players, the time...
The Empty Cells in the Ledger: What Stops Being Counted After Bangladesh's Fifth GrandmasterTwo numbers sit next to each other in a Premier Division Chess League team's...
Dragon Chilling's Double Crown at Hong Kong Team Rapid & Blitz: What Lies Beneath the 5-1 MarginsIn the Hong Kong hall, before the clocks stopped, a number was circulating in...
Hong Kong Team Chess Win Overshadowed by a Bigger Problem: Conflicting Event NarrativesThe most important number in the Hong Kong chess report is not 5-1. It is the...
77 Teams from Five Continents Behind Bars: The Chess History Nobody ArchivedThe steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still creaks open in my imagination. In...
An Empty Stage-1 in Chess Analysis: When the Information Pipeline Dries Up Before the VerdictLast week an analysis request landed on my desk with a single word in the...
Reading Chess From a Blank Ledger: One Word, Five Missing Cells, and the Invisible Crisis in Two NewsroomsThe screen was open in front of me, and on it was a table — the same table I...
Nakamura in the Headline, Software Ad in the Body: The Missing Ledger in Clutch Chess CoverageTwo in the morning in Dublin. Fog on the window, seven in the morning on...
The Bayonet 'Antidote': 9...a5 Has a Sales Pitch, Not a ProofThe cover of a chess instructional disc carries the words 'Buenos Aires 2026'...
Pendik and Monte-Carlo Have the Headline. Nobody Wrote the Result.I read the headline twice last week. The first pass caught on the name of a...
The Ledger Behind ‘Perfect’: Novy Bor, SuperChess and the Forgotten Date in the Scotch FileLast week a reader in Dhaka sent me a link with a single line: ‘Read this.’ T...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan's 2715 Average in Budva, and the Questions Buried Under 108 TeamsWhen I laid the first-round score sheets from Budva side by side, my eye...
Club Chess Still Keeps Its Ledger on Paper in the Blockchain Era: Budva’s 108 Teams, a 2715 Average and 22 Women’s TeamsBUDVA, Montenegro — The first thing visible beside the hall is the pairing...
A Club Cup on the Cover, 27 Miniatures Inside: The Ledger of Issue 225A Club Cup on the Cover, 27 Miniatures Inside: The Ledger of Issue 225 The...
Chess Analysis Finds No Verifiable Event, Player or Tournament InformationBefore a chess game can be explained, the names of the players, the time...
The Empty Cells in the Ledger: What Stops Being Counted After Bangladesh's Fifth GrandmasterTwo numbers sit next to each other in a Premier Division Chess League team's...
Dragon Chilling's Double Crown at Hong Kong Team Rapid & Blitz: What Lies Beneath the 5-1 MarginsIn the Hong Kong hall, before the clocks stopped, a number was circulating in...
Hong Kong Team Chess Win Overshadowed by a Bigger Problem: Conflicting Event NarrativesThe most important number in the Hong Kong chess report is not 5-1. It is the...
77 Teams from Five Continents Behind Bars: The Chess History Nobody ArchivedThe steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still creaks open in my imagination. In...
An Empty Stage-1 in Chess Analysis: When the Information Pipeline Dries Up Before the VerdictLast week an analysis request landed on my desk with a single word in the...
Reading Chess From a Blank Ledger: One Word, Five Missing Cells, and the Invisible Crisis in Two NewsroomsThe screen was open in front of me, and on it was a table — the same table I...
Nakamura in the Headline, Software Ad in the Body: The Missing Ledger in Clutch Chess CoverageTwo in the morning in Dublin. Fog on the window, seven in the morning on...
The Bayonet 'Antidote': 9...a5 Has a Sales Pitch, Not a ProofThe cover of a chess instructional disc carries the words 'Buenos Aires 2026'...
Pendik and Monte-Carlo Have the Headline. Nobody Wrote the Result.I read the headline twice last week. The first pass caught on the name of a...
The Ledger Behind ‘Perfect’: Novy Bor, SuperChess and the Forgotten Date in the Scotch FileLast week a reader in Dhaka sent me a link with a single line: ‘Read this.’ T...
European Club Cup 2026: Bayegan's 2715 Average in Budva, and the Questions Buried Under 108 TeamsWhen I laid the first-round score sheets from Budva side by side, my eye...
Club Chess Still Keeps Its Ledger on Paper in the Blockchain Era: Budva’s 108 Teams, a 2715 Average and 22 Women’s TeamsBUDVA, Montenegro — The first thing visible beside the hall is the pairing...
A Club Cup on the Cover, 27 Miniatures Inside: The Ledger of Issue 225A Club Cup on the Cover, 27 Miniatures Inside: The Ledger of Issue 225 The...