Chess
Elephant Gambit: How Strong Is Andrew Martin’s Aggressive Chess Strategy Behind Its Surprise Value?An unfamiliar move in the opening can create one of the most uncomfortable...
Elephant Gambit: Surprise Weapon or an Unproven Theoretical Defence?The Elephant Gambit begins with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!? and immediately challenges...
India's Gold Hopes Rest on Lower Boards, Not the Top: A Chess AnalysisInside the chess hall in Samarkand, the clock hands froze at the exact moment...
A Chess Lesson Disguised as an Ad: What Game of the Week #746 Actually TeachesThe title said 'Game of the Week #746: Xiong vs Liang.' I opened the file and...
Perhaps Chess Will Never Be Golden Again in This Land: An Empty Data Set that Revealed Bangladesh Chess's Full PictureLast week the output of an analytical pipeline landed in my hands. The title...
Heartbeats in Paltan: Bangladesh's Medically Unprotected Chess Crisis5 July 2026, a league match in Dhaka. The clock had passed six hours, and...
Modern Chess: Technology, Speed and the New Era of CompetitionChess is a game whose core rules have remained almost unchanged for centuries...
Chigorin on the Cover, Italian Inside: Report on an Information Crisis in a Chess Opening ProductIntroduction: A Report With No Game Inside In the international chess...
Fujairah's Name, Prague's Story: The Announcement That Names No SolverIt is two in the morning in Mymensingh. A table lamp, a laptop, a cup of tea...
2715 Among 108 Teams in Budva: The Arithmetic of Favouritism and the Data That Is Still Missing at the European Club CupThree numbers come up on the hall board first. 108. Then 22. Then 2715. At th...
Not a Talent Drought, a Patron DroughtJuly 2026. Forty-two degrees in Delhi, and every screen in my hostel was...
A Turkish 'Victory' in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: A Data Fault in Chess JournalismMy notebook has a rule: draw the position first, then write the sentence. Las...
Game of the Week #745: Two Grandmasters in the Title, Six Training Videos InsideI keep a spreadsheet. I call it the annotation ledger. I started it in Decemb...
Carlsen's 'Humans Aren't That Good at Chess': What Two Translation Hops EraseTwo in the morning in Rangpur, laptop open. A Vietnamese sports page carries...
Budva 2026: Behind the 2715 Average Sits a Budget — and the Silence of 22 TeamsOn the corridor noticeboard at Budva, two sheets go up at nine in the morning...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Under a Neiksans Headline: The Receipt That Never Listed the ClaimLast week a headline arrived in my feed: “From quitting chess to becoming a...
