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No Checks, No Cash, Still the Scent of Four Feet: How Bangladesh Lost Its Grandmasters
Dortmund Trophy 2027 in the Headline, a 60-Minute Scandinavian Video Inside: A Ledger Audit
A FIDE Assembly in the Headline, a 60-Minute Najdorf Download in the Body
Samarkand on the cover, Prague in the file: ChessBase Magazine 225 and a beat keeper's ledger of the training market
Why 15-Year-Old Besou Leads the Bavarian Championship—Is This Really Proof of Talent, or Just a One-Day Snapshot of a Regional Table?When I first saw the headline about the Bavarian Championship, the spreadshee...
The Steel Cupboard, the King's Indian Empty Room: The Last Game of a DVD ReviewThe steel cupboard door opens and the coffee ring on the black king's square...
No Checks, No Cash, Still the Scent of Four Feet: How Bangladesh Lost Its GrandmastersIn the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana Paltan there is a steel...
A Champion's Headline, a Video's Body: The Question Nobody Asked in the Rachel Li StoryHook A headline has been circulating on chess feeds for several days: Rachel ...
9...a5: A Sideline Against the Bayonet, and the Unwritten Ledger of Chess InstructionPenang, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. Rain outside, three boards and one ticking clock...
Dortmund Trophy 2027 in the Headline, a 60-Minute Scandinavian Video Inside: A Ledger AuditI opened the file expecting the crosstable of the 2027 Dortmund Sparkassen...
Two Top Seeds Fell at Atyrau Masters, but the Names Are Missing: The Ledger Behind ChessBase Magazine #225The headline stops you: “Atyrau Masters: Top two seeds defeated in opening...
FIDE in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: Two Faces of One PageLast Thursday, at half past eleven at night, I opened a link. The headline...
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense Room Where Carlsen's Shadow Meets a Coffee RingOn that wooden table in Purana Paltan, the coffee ring is still there. It dri...
One Headline, Another Body: Six Lilov Videos Behind the US Championship NewsI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. In October last year,...
From Dusk till Dawn: The Body of a Download, the Emptiness of PaltanBefore I opened the download page for ChessBase Magazine #225, I was looking ...
A FIDE Assembly in the Headline, a 60-Minute Najdorf Download in the BodyAt twenty-seven past two in the morning, I opened my laptop in a Mumbai flat...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A DVD, an Old Sideline, and the Shrinking Time of the Club PlayerTwo in the morning. In the corner of a club hall in Dhaka a single desk lamp ...
Samarkand's Silver Lining: The Inner Reckoning of India's Silver and BronzeSamarkand's results sheet has 'Silver' written next to India's name — not in...
21/22: Budapest's Double Gold, and the Question Nobody Asked in the Press RoomIn the small press booth beside the Budapest arena, on the night of 22...
The 5.e5! Ledger: The Modern Italian Line, Sveshnikov's Testimony, and the Empty Squares of Game of the Week #740Where the Arithmetic Stops on the Board Four moves in. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc...
5.e5! — One Illustrative Game, One Club Weapon, and the Number Nobody GaveI opened the file expecting a game. What came out was a lesson with a game...
Five Lines, Sixty Minutes, and a Headline With No PaperworkFive Lines, Sixty Minutes, and a Headline With No Paperwork Two things landed...
5.e5! in the Modern Italian: A Big Name, a Sveshnikov Seal, and the Data Nobody CheckedHook: One Move, One Empty Space In 2026, while working as an assistant coach ...
The King Walks, the Pawn Is Given, Three Questions Remain: The Italian Line Hidden Behind the OlympiadChennai, 2026. In the press room of the 44th Chess Olympiad I was reconciling...
5.e5 in the Olympiad's Shadow: The Move That Hands Club Players an Asymmetric BargainThe chalk mark of the pawn had not yet cooled. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 —...