Chess
2715 in Budva: Club Chess Is Now Played on a Budget Board
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Course That Borrows Carlsen's Name, and the Country Still Waiting on Its First Grandmaster's Legacy
9...a5 and the Injury of Preparation: Why 'Engine Blindness' Sells in the King's Indian Mar del Plata
ChessMom Returns: Supporting Mothers On and Off the Board
A Typo, 27 Miniatures and One 'Brilliancy': Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 as a Map of Bangladesh's Chess Economy
Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes: Petroff or Scandinavian, the Real Question Is Course CredibilitySixty Minutes, but Which Opening? The first reply to 1.e4 often reveals how...
Petroff or Scandinavian: A Major Factual Inconsistency in a 60-Minute Chess Course PromotionA 60-minute chess video promises an attractive proposition: learn a reliable...
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Bigger Questions Behind the Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes1. The Hook: A Contradiction Appears Before the First Move In chess opening...
The Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon or a Hole in the House?The board position is still alive in my memory. Thirty years ago, sitting at ...
The London System Trap: The Real Lesson Hidden in a Chess Training Video's Promotional StructureA Saturday night chess session. I was sitting in on a Bangla-language online...
The Five-Grandmaster Ceiling: How Bangladesh Chess Is Losing Moves on a Board of NostalgiaMarch 2026. A secondhand laptop in a Mymensingh bedroom, a PGN file open. The...
The Scotch Revival: Kasparov 2026, Mikhalchishin's 60 Minutes, and a Headline That Belongs ElsewhereOn board three of the league hall in Purana Paltan, White pushed 3.d4. The...
Bundesliga in the Headline, a 60-Minute Advertisement in the Body: The Article That Lost on Its Own BoardEleven at night, George Town. A board is set in an old club room, the clock...
Clock Stopped at Move 32: Bodhana Sivanandan Completes All Three IM Norms at ElevenHook Budva, Montenegro. October 23, 2026, the final round of the women's...
2715 in Budva: Club Chess Is Now Played on a Budget BoardA sheet of paper was taped to the wall of a second-floor corridor in Budva....
Club Chess on the Budva Board: The Physical and Institutional Arithmetic Nobody Writes Behind a 2715 AverageI have counted heartbeats in the Paltan hall, and the numbers confessed more...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Course That Borrows Carlsen's Name, and the Country Still Waiting on Its First Grandmaster's LegacyLate last week, past eleven at night, I opened a link. The headline was...
A Tour With No Door: Total Chess in Budapest and the Hollow Promise of a Unified RatingI opened the announcement on 29 August and did not look for a rating first. I...
9...a5 and the Injury of Preparation: Why 'Engine Blindness' Sells in the King's Indian Mar del PlataOne number from April 2026 is still written in red ink in my board-physiology...
A Budva Headline, an Elephant Gambit Body: The Arithmetic of Thirteen Information PointsThe page carried a headline about the European Club Cup beginning in Budva. I...
The Header Says Dortmund 2027, the Moves Are Scandinavian: A Gap Between Label and Content in the Chess Instruction MarketThe top of the document says “Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027.” Inside the...
The Market Behind the Board: The Elephant Gambit and Chess's Information EconomyLast month, in a rented club room in Saint Petersburg, a blitz evening was...
Petroff or Scandinavian: A Major Factual Inconsistency in a 60-Minute Chess Course PromotionA 60-minute chess video promises an attractive proposition: learn a reliable...
Petroff or Scandinavian? The Bigger Questions Behind the Promise of Learning a Chess Opening in 60 Minutes1. The Hook: A Contradiction Appears Before the First Move In chess opening...
The Elephant Gambit: A Surprise Weapon or a Hole in the House?The board position is still alive in my memory. Thirty years ago, sitting at ...
The London System Trap: The Real Lesson Hidden in a Chess Training Video's Promotional StructureA Saturday night chess session. I was sitting in on a Bangla-language online...
The Five-Grandmaster Ceiling: How Bangladesh Chess Is Losing Moves on a Board of NostalgiaMarch 2026. A secondhand laptop in a Mymensingh bedroom, a PGN file open. The...
The Scotch Revival: Kasparov 2026, Mikhalchishin's 60 Minutes, and a Headline That Belongs ElsewhereOn board three of the league hall in Purana Paltan, White pushed 3.d4. The...
Bundesliga in the Headline, a 60-Minute Advertisement in the Body: The Article That Lost on Its Own BoardEleven at night, George Town. A board is set in an old club room, the clock...
Clock Stopped at Move 32: Bodhana Sivanandan Completes All Three IM Norms at ElevenHook Budva, Montenegro. October 23, 2026, the final round of the women's...
2715 in Budva: Club Chess Is Now Played on a Budget BoardA sheet of paper was taped to the wall of a second-floor corridor in Budva....
Club Chess on the Budva Board: The Physical and Institutional Arithmetic Nobody Writes Behind a 2715 AverageI have counted heartbeats in the Paltan hall, and the numbers confessed more...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Course That Borrows Carlsen's Name, and the Country Still Waiting on Its First Grandmaster's LegacyLate last week, past eleven at night, I opened a link. The headline was...
A Tour With No Door: Total Chess in Budapest and the Hollow Promise of a Unified RatingI opened the announcement on 29 August and did not look for a rating first. I...
9...a5 and the Injury of Preparation: Why 'Engine Blindness' Sells in the King's Indian Mar del PlataOne number from April 2026 is still written in red ink in my board-physiology...
A Budva Headline, an Elephant Gambit Body: The Arithmetic of Thirteen Information PointsThe page carried a headline about the European Club Cup beginning in Budva. I...
The Header Says Dortmund 2027, the Moves Are Scandinavian: A Gap Between Label and Content in the Chess Instruction MarketThe top of the document says “Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027.” Inside the...
The Market Behind the Board: The Elephant Gambit and Chess's Information EconomyLast month, in a rented club room in Saint Petersburg, a blitz evening was...