Chess
The Report With Zero Information Points: Where Chess Analysis Stops for Verification
The Lesson of the Empty Board: Five Bangladeshi Grandmasters and a Blank Ledger
Not a Bundesliga Dispute but an Elephant Gambit Ad: How a Title-Body Mismatch Breaks Editorial Trust
FIDE General Assembly 2026 in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A 60-Minute Data Gap
Eight Sections, Eight 'Cannot Assess': The Empty Chess File That Demands an AuditLast week a file landed on my desk. Eight analytical sections—game and...
Hong Kong Team Rapid: A 5-1 Final, the Tiebreak Thorn, and Ding Liren's Unresolved FormTwo numbers sat on the scoreboard across both legs: 5-1, 5-1. At the World Te...
Hong Kong Team Rapid & Blitz: The 5-1 Score and the Two Headlines That Describe Two Different BodiesHong Kong's final scoreboard read 5-1 across both legs, then 5-1 again....
Samarkand's Silver and Bronze: The 19-Point Gap Hidden Behind the MedalsThe moment still burns in my ledger isn't a rating graph—it's Chennai to...
The Title Gap: A Sämisch Claim, a Nimzo Reality, and the Ledger of a Slow-Build SystemLate last year, after an eighth-round team match at the Olympiad, I did a sma...
Why Bangladesh Chess Still Waits for a Sixth Grandmaster: A Structural LedgerI tagged 640 games before I understood the bedroom. In 2026, while working as...
The World Champion on the Last Board and the Gap Inside India's 5/5A draw offer arrived in an equal position. Anish Giri had the black pieces,...
The Samarkand Result and the Scandinavian Course: An Audit of Two Stories in One HeadlineIt was 2:40 a.m. in Mumbai when the feed item arrived. The headline read:...
The Report With Zero Information Points: Where Chess Analysis Stops for VerificationAt 11:40 pm a file landed on the desk. Eight chapters, each with a neatly bui...
A Result With No Score: The European Club Cup, the Scotch, and an AdvertisementDecember 2026, a tea stall in Purana Paltan. A club secretary scrolled his...
Carlsen and the Five-Hour Game: One Confession, Three Languages, and Chess's Invisible LedgerAt two in the morning, an old classical game was running on the laptop screen...
European Club Cup 2026: The 2715 Average, the 115-Point Gap, and the 22-versus-108 ArithmeticBudva, Montenegro. 19 October 2026. The European Club Cup open section carrie...
Ten Weeks Before Budapest: What the Total Chess 'Unified Rating' Announcement Did Not SayIn April 2026 I strapped heart-rate monitors to six players at the Purana...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: The Price of an Old Promise in the Engine EraIt was half past nine at the league hall in Purana Paltan. The clock sat...
The Lesson of the Empty Board: Five Bangladeshi Grandmasters and a Blank LedgerIt was three in the morning. In a rented flat in Mumbai, under the cold light...
Not a Bundesliga Dispute but an Elephant Gambit Ad: How a Title-Body Mismatch Breaks Editorial TrustAn article carried the headline “A dispute in the Bundesliga.” On first read ...
The Grammar of the Endgame: What Karsten Müller Proves About Engine Truth and Human ExplanationHook Page 147 of my Batumi notebook is still folded at the corner. September...
The Endgame Auditor: Karsten Müller's Archive and Bangladesh's Empty LedgerA single name has sat in the same column of Hamburger Schachklub's team match...
Caruana in the Headline, Lilov's Course in the Body: A Ledger of Chess Media's Manufactured NewsHalf past eleven last Tuesday night. I was sitting in my Bangalore flat,...
Prague's Analysis, Paltan's Heartbeat: The Invisible Injuries of the Chess IndustryFrom a small apartment in Boston, downloading a rook-endgame annotation from...
FIDE General Assembly 2026 in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A 60-Minute Data GapI was scanning a feed with my notebook open and my pen ready. The headline re...
Five Against Eighty: Budapest's Gold and the Purana Paltan LedgerBudapest, 22 September 2026, evening. The final-round results were appearing ...
Hong Kong Team Rapid: A 5-1 Final, the Tiebreak Thorn, and Ding Liren's Unresolved FormTwo numbers sat on the scoreboard across both legs: 5-1, 5-1. At the World Te...
Hong Kong Team Rapid & Blitz: The 5-1 Score and the Two Headlines That Describe Two Different BodiesHong Kong's final scoreboard read 5-1 across both legs, then 5-1 again....
Samarkand's Silver and Bronze: The 19-Point Gap Hidden Behind the MedalsThe moment still burns in my ledger isn't a rating graph—it's Chennai to...
The Title Gap: A Sämisch Claim, a Nimzo Reality, and the Ledger of a Slow-Build SystemLate last year, after an eighth-round team match at the Olympiad, I did a sma...
Why Bangladesh Chess Still Waits for a Sixth Grandmaster: A Structural LedgerI tagged 640 games before I understood the bedroom. In 2026, while working as...
The World Champion on the Last Board and the Gap Inside India's 5/5A draw offer arrived in an equal position. Anish Giri had the black pieces,...
The Samarkand Result and the Scandinavian Course: An Audit of Two Stories in One HeadlineIt was 2:40 a.m. in Mumbai when the feed item arrived. The headline read:...
The Report With Zero Information Points: Where Chess Analysis Stops for VerificationAt 11:40 pm a file landed on the desk. Eight chapters, each with a neatly bui...
A Result With No Score: The European Club Cup, the Scotch, and an AdvertisementDecember 2026, a tea stall in Purana Paltan. A club secretary scrolled his...
Carlsen and the Five-Hour Game: One Confession, Three Languages, and Chess's Invisible LedgerAt two in the morning, an old classical game was running on the laptop screen...
European Club Cup 2026: The 2715 Average, the 115-Point Gap, and the 22-versus-108 ArithmeticBudva, Montenegro. 19 October 2026. The European Club Cup open section carrie...
Ten Weeks Before Budapest: What the Total Chess 'Unified Rating' Announcement Did Not SayIn April 2026 I strapped heart-rate monitors to six players at the Purana...
9...a5 Against the Bayonet Attack: The Price of an Old Promise in the Engine EraIt was half past nine at the league hall in Purana Paltan. The clock sat...
The Lesson of the Empty Board: Five Bangladeshi Grandmasters and a Blank LedgerIt was three in the morning. In a rented flat in Mumbai, under the cold light...
Not a Bundesliga Dispute but an Elephant Gambit Ad: How a Title-Body Mismatch Breaks Editorial TrustAn article carried the headline “A dispute in the Bundesliga.” On first read ...
The Grammar of the Endgame: What Karsten Müller Proves About Engine Truth and Human ExplanationHook Page 147 of my Batumi notebook is still folded at the corner. September...
The Endgame Auditor: Karsten Müller's Archive and Bangladesh's Empty LedgerA single name has sat in the same column of Hamburger Schachklub's team match...
Caruana in the Headline, Lilov's Course in the Body: A Ledger of Chess Media's Manufactured NewsHalf past eleven last Tuesday night. I was sitting in my Bangalore flat,...
Prague's Analysis, Paltan's Heartbeat: The Invisible Injuries of the Chess IndustryFrom a small apartment in Boston, downloading a rook-endgame annotation from...
FIDE General Assembly 2026 in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A 60-Minute Data GapI was scanning a feed with my notebook open and my pen ready. The headline re...
Five Against Eighty: Budapest's Gold and the Purana Paltan LedgerBudapest, 22 September 2026, evening. The final-round results were appearing ...