Chess
Samarkand Round 7: A Match in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body
The Listing That Forgot Its Own Name: The Scotch, Kasparov 2026, and Mikhalchishin’s Antidote
The Mislabelled File: The Scotch Game's Revival and the Market for Chess Knowledge
A Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Cover: The Tournament Report That Never Was
A Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Cover: The Tournament Report That Never WasWhile opening the courier packet I was looking for the smell of steel and fou...
The Danger of 'Anti-AI' Claims in Chess Blockchain Education Market: From Samarkand to King's Indian DefenseThe steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. In 2026, ...
Samarkand Women's Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead and a Board Buried in AdvertisingTwo facts surfaced after Round 7 at Samarkand and they fit a headline...
Samarkand Round 7: A Match in the Headline, an Advertisement in the BodyAt two in the morning in a Saint Petersburg kitchen, laptop open, I was...
The Listing That Forgot Its Own Name: The Scotch, Kasparov 2026, and Mikhalchishin’s AntidoteThe listing carries one name on the label — “John Donaldson: New insights int...
A Winner Declared on a Losing Night: Nihal Sarin, India’s Player of the Day, and the Ledger We Never OpenedHook: Thirty Minutes and Three Moves There were thirty minutes left on the...
The Mislabelled File: The Scotch Game's Revival and the Market for Chess Knowledge1) Ninth night of Leonine Chess Club's online blitz league out of Dhaka,...
The Eight-Way Table in Samarkand: What the Board Remembered and the Camera MissedEight names sit side by side on the scoreboard in the Samarkand hall after fo...
A Phantom Name, the Scotch Revival, and the Empty Record of a Small Market: An Autopsy of the Chess Instruction IndustryAbove a ChessBase-style product page sits a headline about a young player's...
A World Champion on Board Four: The Real Arithmetic Behind India's Five Out of FiveGiri offered the draw. The position was equal, he had the black pieces, and a...
41 National Championships, a 19-Point Gap: Auditing Bangladesh's Chess LedgerI was fifty-two. After twenty-six years building xG and PPDA models on footba...
Chess Olympiad: Nihal Blunders from a Winning Position, Takes India Down with HimSamarkand's steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. T...
The Danger of 'Anti-AI' Claims in Chess Blockchain Education Market: From Samarkand to King's Indian DefenseThe steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. In 2026, ...
Samarkand Women's Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead and a Board Buried in AdvertisingTwo facts surfaced after Round 7 at Samarkand and they fit a headline...
Samarkand Round 7: A Match in the Headline, an Advertisement in the BodyAt two in the morning in a Saint Petersburg kitchen, laptop open, I was...
The Listing That Forgot Its Own Name: The Scotch, Kasparov 2026, and Mikhalchishin’s AntidoteThe listing carries one name on the label — “John Donaldson: New insights int...
A Winner Declared on a Losing Night: Nihal Sarin, India’s Player of the Day, and the Ledger We Never OpenedHook: Thirty Minutes and Three Moves There were thirty minutes left on the...
The Mislabelled File: The Scotch Game's Revival and the Market for Chess Knowledge1) Ninth night of Leonine Chess Club's online blitz league out of Dhaka,...
The Eight-Way Table in Samarkand: What the Board Remembered and the Camera MissedEight names sit side by side on the scoreboard in the Samarkand hall after fo...
A Phantom Name, the Scotch Revival, and the Empty Record of a Small Market: An Autopsy of the Chess Instruction IndustryAbove a ChessBase-style product page sits a headline about a young player's...
A World Champion on Board Four: The Real Arithmetic Behind India's Five Out of FiveGiri offered the draw. The position was equal, he had the black pieces, and a...
41 National Championships, a 19-Point Gap: Auditing Bangladesh's Chess LedgerI was fifty-two. After twenty-six years building xG and PPDA models on footba...
Chess Olympiad: Nihal Blunders from a Winning Position, Takes India Down with HimSamarkand's steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. T...