Chess
The Evidence Gap in Chess Analysis: Why Competitive and Institutional Conclusions Require Original Reporting2026-11-09The most important part of a chess report is not always a dramatic match or a...
A Fifteen-Year-Old's Bavarian Lead and a Sales Pitch: The Packaging Error in Chess News2026-11-05The table after the fifth round of the Bavarian Championship shows a name:...
Attack in the Title, Defence in the Body: One Opening DVD, Eleven Information Points, and a Ledger of Claims2026-10-28I keep a spreadsheet. I call it 'the market's claims'. Every month two or thr...
9...a5: The Old Trick of Selling an 'Antidote' Without Evidence2026-10-26Two subjects sit side by side in the same piece with no bridge between them....
ChessThe Evidence Gap in Chess Analysis: Why Competitive and Institutional Conclusions Require Original ReportingThe most important part of a chess report is not always a dramatic match or a...
ChessA Fifteen-Year-Old's Bavarian Lead and a Sales Pitch: The Packaging Error in Chess NewsThe table after the fifth round of the Bavarian Championship shows a name:...
ChessFujairah to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final: A Small News Peg Behind a Big Headline, With a ChessBase Magazine Pitch in FrontA report carried on ChessBase's website announces, in its headline, that...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Load That Does Not Shrink, Only RelocatesLast month at club night I heard a sentence that is still stuck in my noteboo...
ChessAttack in the Title, Defence in the Body: One Opening DVD, Eleven Information Points, and a Ledger of ClaimsI keep a spreadsheet. I call it 'the market's claims'. Every month two or thr...
Chess9...a5: The Old Trick of Selling an 'Antidote' Without EvidenceTwo subjects sit side by side in the same piece with no bridge between them....
ChessTotal Chess’s ‘Unified Rating’: What Twelve Days in Budapest Have Not AnnouncedThe announcement is dated 29 August 2026. The photo credit says only ‘FIDE’....
ChessA Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 Headline, a 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Video InsideStart with the number. The headline carries "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027"...
ChessNot a Bundesliga Dispute: Analyzing Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Video Repertoire and the Misleading TitleThe title screams 'A dispute in the Bundesliga,' yet every paragraph of this...
ChessHeartbeats Beyond Paltan: Merijn van Delft, a GM Norm, and the Body of a Wednesday BroadcastA clock rings every Wednesday evening. Long years spent in Hamburg, then...
ChessAn Eleven-Year-Old on Board One, a 2504 Performance and 3.Bc4: A Receipt, Not a ProphecyThe line on the Samarkand scoreboard looks harmless: seven rounds, six points...
Chess9...a5 and the Missing Sixth Grandmaster: Mar del Plata's Antidote and Bangladesh's Budget CeilingWhite's 9.b4. The Bayonet Attack. White pushes his queenside pawns, gives up...
ChessNo Source, No Date, One Opinion — Is Chess Really the “Least Expressive” Sport?No source. No date. Twelve data points, one opinion. “I have watched a lot of...
ChessWhere Bent Larsen Is Not: Issue #225 and the Silent Ledger of the Chess-Content EconomyLate one night last month, in my Saint Petersburg flat, I opened a product pa...
ChessA 60-Minute Najdorf Update, a Mislabelled FIDE General Assembly Headline, and the Theory Arms Race: An Information LedgerAt 1:47 a.m. on a Monday, in a Mumbai flat, I opened a chess aggregator feed....
ChessA Fifteen-Year-Old's Bavarian Lead and a Sales Pitch: The Packaging Error in Chess NewsThe table after the fifth round of the Bavarian Championship shows a name:...
ChessFujairah to Host the WFCC Grand Prix Final: A Small News Peg Behind a Big Headline, With a ChessBase Magazine Pitch in FrontA report carried on ChessBase's website announces, in its headline, that...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Load That Does Not Shrink, Only RelocatesLast month at club night I heard a sentence that is still stuck in my noteboo...
ChessAttack in the Title, Defence in the Body: One Opening DVD, Eleven Information Points, and a Ledger of ClaimsI keep a spreadsheet. I call it 'the market's claims'. Every month two or thr...
Chess9...a5: The Old Trick of Selling an 'Antidote' Without EvidenceTwo subjects sit side by side in the same piece with no bridge between them....
ChessTotal Chess’s ‘Unified Rating’: What Twelve Days in Budapest Have Not AnnouncedThe announcement is dated 29 August 2026. The photo credit says only ‘FIDE’....
ChessA Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027 Headline, a 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense Video InsideStart with the number. The headline carries "Dortmund Sparkassen Trophy 2027"...
ChessNot a Bundesliga Dispute: Analyzing Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Video Repertoire and the Misleading TitleThe title screams 'A dispute in the Bundesliga,' yet every paragraph of this...
ChessHeartbeats Beyond Paltan: Merijn van Delft, a GM Norm, and the Body of a Wednesday BroadcastA clock rings every Wednesday evening. Long years spent in Hamburg, then...
ChessAn Eleven-Year-Old on Board One, a 2504 Performance and 3.Bc4: A Receipt, Not a ProphecyThe line on the Samarkand scoreboard looks harmless: seven rounds, six points...
Chess9...a5 and the Missing Sixth Grandmaster: Mar del Plata's Antidote and Bangladesh's Budget CeilingWhite's 9.b4. The Bayonet Attack. White pushes his queenside pawns, gives up...
ChessNo Source, No Date, One Opinion — Is Chess Really the “Least Expressive” Sport?No source. No date. Twelve data points, one opinion. “I have watched a lot of...
ChessWhere Bent Larsen Is Not: Issue #225 and the Silent Ledger of the Chess-Content EconomyLate one night last month, in my Saint Petersburg flat, I opened a product pa...
ChessA 60-Minute Najdorf Update, a Mislabelled FIDE General Assembly Headline, and the Theory Arms Race: An Information LedgerAt 1:47 a.m. on a Monday, in a Mumbai flat, I opened a chess aggregator feed....