Chess
Fifty Years of the Steel Cupboard: From Niaz's Norm Sheet to Bodhana's Hidden Endgame
9...a5: The Calculated Antidote to the Bayonet Attack in the King's Indian Defense
9...a5 in the NNUE Era: Auditing a 'Human-Friendly' Antidote to the Bayonet
Not the Gambit but the Funnel: The Chess Advertising Economy Hidden Inside a Headline
Stage Two of Chess Analysis: Professional Assessment Confronts an Absence of EvidenceA significant and uncomfortable truth has emerged in professional chess news...
Title Races Tighten After Six Rounds at the World Amateur Chess ChampionshipsAfter six rounds of the FIDE World Amateur Chess Championships 2026, the titl...
Missing Evidence in Chess Analysis: The Original Source Is Needed Before ReportingA chess report requires verifiable evidence. The supplied analytical document...
Sasikiran Wins Bavarian Championship on Tiebreaks as FRITZ 20 Brings a New Training Debate to ChessSasikiran's Bavarian Championship Victory and the New Debate Around FRITZ 20...
One Line From Shenzhen, and a Scoresheet That Stays BlankTwo things are always open on my desk — a notebook and a scoresheet. This...
The Steel Cupboard, the Coffee Ring, and a Silent Generation: An Audit of Bangladesh's Unfinished Chess DreamAs I opened the steel cupboard door, the first thing my eyes caught was the...
15-Year-Old Hussain Besou Among the Leaders in the Bavarian Championship: Promise, Context and the Risk of Prodigy HypeA headline about a 15-year-old chess player sharing the lead in a championshi...
From Paltan Heartbeats to Hong Kong: Reading Bangladesh's Chess-Body Scars Through Ding Liren's OscillationOn 5 July 2026, Ziaur Rahman sat at a table in Purana Paltan, and his heart...
Hussain Besou Joins the Bavarian Championship Leaders, but the Evidence Stops ThereHussain Besou being 15 years old and joining the leaders at the Bavarian...
Samarkand's Eight-Way Tie and a Magazine's 27 Miniatures: The Ledger That Doesn't Balance on PaperAfter Round 4 in Samarkand, eight players stand on the same score. The news...
Fifty Years of the Steel Cupboard: From Niaz's Norm Sheet to Bodhana's Hidden EndgameThe steel cupboard still stands in the corner of the hall at Purana Paltan. O...
The Current Map of World Chess: Championships, Technology and the Rise of South AsiaChess is a strategic game played on a 64-square board between two opponents,...
Bodhana in the Bundesliga: A New Face, an Old Rules WarBodhana Sivanandan is a new name in the chess world. At a very young age, she...
Heartbeats in Paltan: The Injury Chess Never Files a Report On(English article below)
Pragg, Gukesh, Nihal power India to 3.5-0.5 sweep over Uzbek 2 to stay in gold huntRound 10 in Samarkand ended with a scoreline that flatters: 3.5–0.5 against...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Under a Borrowed Name: The Headline-Body Gap in Chess InstructionSixty minutes. Eight information points. One name. The name is Arturs Neiksan...