Chess
ChessThe Hour of the Seconds: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and the Ledger of a DVD Market2026-10-19Tuesday, a quarter to nine at night in a club room in Penang. An old DVD lies...
ChessThe Mislabeled File: Najdorf, Daniel King, and the Market of Memory2026-10-05I opened a folder whose label was perfectly clear — “FIDE General Assembly...
ChessThe Arithmetic of 5.e5: A Memory Burden and a Headline Gap2026-09-27At the Olympiad a king went for a walk — and my first instinct on reading tha...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: Scandinavian Defense Marketing and the Gap in the Scoresheet2026-09-26Thirteen sentences. One video course. Sixty minutes. No PGN file, no game...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Page: Two Boards in One File2026-09-25I opened the file for Samarkand. The title said round eight, a women's team...
Five Grandmasters, One Empty Ledger: The Norm Arithmetic Behind Bangladesh's Chess DeclineRain in Dublin at two in the morning has a way of opening old files. Last nig...
Testimony of an Empty Column: The 19-Point ACPL Gap, Batumi's 3 Conversions, and Bangladesh's Chess LedgerLast Saturday night, in my Mumbai flat, I opened my laptop and pulled up a...
The Gap Between Title and Payload: How a Chess Course Promotion Teaches Us Evidence DisciplineWhat I received was no more than six sentences of information. There were no...
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 on the Board: The Gap a Chess DVD Is HidingAt 2:47 in the morning, the laptop screen in a Mymensingh bedroom is the only...
The Hour of the Seconds: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and the Ledger of a DVD MarketTuesday, a quarter to nine at night in a club room in Penang. An old DVD lies...
History Written in Empty Squares: Data, Poverty and the Unfinished Board of Bangladeshi ChessHistory Written in Empty Squares: Data, Poverty and the Unfinished Board of...
One Norm and Five Hundred Wednesdays: The Ledger of Merijn van DelftA Wednesday evening. A clock on the board, a camera in front, and on the othe...
From Dusk till Dawn: The Quiet Economy of Chess Training and the Magazine Behind the ScreenAt three in the morning, an old laptop screen glows in a bedroom in Mymensing...
Awake Till Dawn: ChessBase #225's Training Ledger and Dhaka's Empty SquareA long maneuvering game from the Prague Chess Festival 2026, with the...
A German Chess Magazine in English, Four Hundred Thousand Dollars in St. Louis: Two Receipts and an Incomplete LedgerLast night, opening the brief, the first thing that stopped me was not a...
What Sells Under Bent Larsen's Name, and What Isn't There: A Data Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225Last month, reading the promotional notice for ChessBase Magazine #225 on...
Five Systems in Sixty Minutes, a FIDE Assembly in the Title: The Metadata Injury of a Najdorf Update FileDivide sixty minutes by five and each system gets under twelve. I did that...
The Mislabeled File: Najdorf, Daniel King, and the Market of MemoryI opened a folder whose label was perfectly clear — “FIDE General Assembly...
Six Videos, Zero Games, One Quote: Who Is the Real Product in Chess's "Undervalued" Market?Six videos. One quote. Zero games. Last week, at my desk in Delhi, I was...
The Arithmetic of 5.e5: A Memory Burden and a Headline GapAt the Olympiad a king went for a walk — and my first instinct on reading tha...
Savitha Shri: Seven Wins on the Reserve Board, and a Father's Savings Gone in Three YearsIn a room in Chennai a father is watching a screen, and nine thousand...
The Sword of Damocles, a 60-Minute Promise, and a Chess Ledger That Does Not Add Up1. Whose Head Was the Sword Hanging Over? At a small hall in Rangpur last...
Thirteen Points, One Headline, Twelve Advertisements: The Samarkand R8 Story With a Borrowed BodyOne evening, at 11:40 pm, I was scrolling a feed reader in a Mumbai flat, wit...
Testimony of an Empty Column: The 19-Point ACPL Gap, Batumi's 3 Conversions, and Bangladesh's Chess LedgerLast Saturday night, in my Mumbai flat, I opened my laptop and pulled up a...
The Gap Between Title and Payload: How a Chess Course Promotion Teaches Us Evidence DisciplineWhat I received was no more than six sentences of information. There were no...
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 on the Board: The Gap a Chess DVD Is HidingAt 2:47 in the morning, the laptop screen in a Mymensingh bedroom is the only...
The Hour of the Seconds: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and the Ledger of a DVD MarketTuesday, a quarter to nine at night in a club room in Penang. An old DVD lies...
History Written in Empty Squares: Data, Poverty and the Unfinished Board of Bangladeshi ChessHistory Written in Empty Squares: Data, Poverty and the Unfinished Board of...
One Norm and Five Hundred Wednesdays: The Ledger of Merijn van DelftA Wednesday evening. A clock on the board, a camera in front, and on the othe...
From Dusk till Dawn: The Quiet Economy of Chess Training and the Magazine Behind the ScreenAt three in the morning, an old laptop screen glows in a bedroom in Mymensing...
Awake Till Dawn: ChessBase #225's Training Ledger and Dhaka's Empty SquareA long maneuvering game from the Prague Chess Festival 2026, with the...
A German Chess Magazine in English, Four Hundred Thousand Dollars in St. Louis: Two Receipts and an Incomplete LedgerLast night, opening the brief, the first thing that stopped me was not a...
What Sells Under Bent Larsen's Name, and What Isn't There: A Data Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225Last month, reading the promotional notice for ChessBase Magazine #225 on...
Five Systems in Sixty Minutes, a FIDE Assembly in the Title: The Metadata Injury of a Najdorf Update FileDivide sixty minutes by five and each system gets under twelve. I did that...
The Mislabeled File: Najdorf, Daniel King, and the Market of MemoryI opened a folder whose label was perfectly clear — “FIDE General Assembly...
Six Videos, Zero Games, One Quote: Who Is the Real Product in Chess's "Undervalued" Market?Six videos. One quote. Zero games. Last week, at my desk in Delhi, I was...
The Arithmetic of 5.e5: A Memory Burden and a Headline GapAt the Olympiad a king went for a walk — and my first instinct on reading tha...
Savitha Shri: Seven Wins on the Reserve Board, and a Father's Savings Gone in Three YearsIn a room in Chennai a father is watching a screen, and nine thousand...
The Sword of Damocles, a 60-Minute Promise, and a Chess Ledger That Does Not Add Up1. Whose Head Was the Sword Hanging Over? At a small hall in Rangpur last...
Thirteen Points, One Headline, Twelve Advertisements: The Samarkand R8 Story With a Borrowed BodyOne evening, at 11:40 pm, I was scrolling a feed reader in a Mumbai flat, wit...