Chess
Behind Sasikiran’s Tiebreak Win, the Reality of FRITZ 20’s Training ClaimsA chessboard remains still on the screen. Several pieces are placed in a way...
Historic success from Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş: The gap between data and expectationWhen the second-round board-one games concluded in the morning, the Turkish...
Testimony of the Empty Squares: Where Chess Memory Goes SilentA file landed on my desk on Monday morning. No title. No source. No date. Nin...
Course Promoted Under the Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026 Name Focuses on Black’s Sideline PreparationA promotional chess text carries the headline ‘Vlastimil Hort Tournament 2026...
Closed Queenside, Open Kingside: Wei Yi's Counter-Attack Model and the Lesson for BangladeshFrom a second-hand laptop in a Mymensingh bedroom, the first thing that strik...
Wei Yi in the Keymer System Web: How a 'Model Game' Became the Coaching Market's TextbookEighth round of the Olympiad. Midway through a team event, fatigue beginning ...
A New Era in Chess: Gukesh's Rise and the Old QuestionsSingapore's Marina Bay Sands convention centre, the evening of 12 December...
The Result Is Filed, the Record Is Not: Bangladesh Chess and the Square Nobody Fills InLast February, Purana Paltan. I walked into the second-floor office of the...
Fujairah to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final, With a Magazine Promotion Behind the HeadlineThe World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) Grand Prix Final is set to ...
The Empty List, the Full Board: One Extraction Failure and the Quiet Ledger of Bangladeshi ChessAt 2:04 a.m. in a Dublin flat I opened a draft file that sat at the far end o...
Elephant Gambit as a 'Secret Weapon' — But the Headline Itself MisleadsA video-course listing in the ChessBase-style catalogue has introduced Andrew...
Thirty Minutes in Hand, Victory Within Reach — Then Three MovesVidit Gujrathi's voice cracked in the commentary box. He was not playing. He...
45.Rd1: One Move, Three Tables — India's Silver Arithmetic and the Price of Savitha's Gamble in SamarkandAt 1:43 in the morning, the DGT board in Samarkand filled a laptop screen in...
Two Club Names, Thirteen Information Points, and a Missing ScoreboardWhat the page shows first is not a result. It is a headline: Bayegan Pendik a...
2715 vs 2600: The Paper Favourite and the Board-Level Gap at the European Club Cup in BudvaThe first thing I noticed when I opened the file dated October 19, 2026, had...
What the 'perfect start' headline leaves out: the European Club Cup, the Scotch, and an old advertisementTuesday morning in Bangalore. The tea on the desk has gone cold and the wire...
At Budva, a 108-Team Field and Exactly One Average Above 2715After two rounds in Budva, twenty-five teams sit on 2/2. In a 108-team Swiss...
