Chess
Capablanca's Gold, a King's Indian DVD, and the Promise of an Unnamed Author
The Budva Headline, the Elephant Gambit Body: Auditing a Chess Course Page
A Sixty-Minute Gambit, a Two-Line Headline: Where the News Disappeared Inside the Elephant Gambit Advertorial
Bodhana on the Cover, an Elephant on the Board: The Ledger of a 0/13 Ratio
What Is Lost Before the First Move: The Bayonet Attack, 9...a5, and a Headline Out of Samarkand
Seven Openings, Six Videos, One Promise: A Black Repertoire for the London Age
ChessA Century's Youth, a Heartbeat's Reckoning: Paltan's Lesson Before Gukesh-SindarovI once sat in the old Paltan building, staring at a heart-rate monitor—a...
ChessSämisch on the Cover, e3 on the Board: The Ledger Gap in Chess InstructionThe video stopped at move twenty-one, and the pencil mark in the notebook...
ChessPreparing Black Against the London System: A Ledger of Four Weapons and One Promotional GapFirst, a date. February 2026, my desk in Bangalore, opening the file for Game...
ChessFirst Grandmaster, Empty Folder: The 38-Year Gap in Bangladesh's Chess PipelineFirst Grandmaster, Empty Folder: The 38-Year Gap in Bangladesh's Chess Pipeli...
ChessCapablanca's Gold, a King's Indian DVD, and the Promise of an Unnamed AuthorIn August 2026, at the board-one table in Buenos Aires, Capablanca won an...
ChessAgainst the Bayonet: 9...a5, a DVD, and the Market for PreparationTwo in the morning. In a bedroom in Mymensingh, the only light comes from a...
ChessThe Budva Headline, the Elephant Gambit Body: Auditing a Chess Course PageBudva. The European Club Cup. The headline carried both names, plus a verb —...
ChessA Sixty-Minute Gambit, a Two-Line Headline: Where the News Disappeared Inside the Elephant Gambit AdvertorialRecently, at two in the morning at a desk in Dublin, I opened a link. The...
ChessThe Fear Economy: System Openings, Packaged Antidotes, and Chess's Education MarketLate last winter, in my room in Mymensingh, I paused a club game stream at th...
ChessBodhana on the Cover, an Elephant on the Board: The Ledger of a 0/13 RatioThe cover carried a child's name — Bodhana Sivanandan. The body carried a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: A Source Audit of Chess InformationA headline made me open a scoresheet last week. It said that at the Samarkand...
ChessSamarkand Round 7: The Story That Got Buried Behind a Single Match PointHook Start with a ratio, then the story. A headline surfaced: Samarkand, Roun...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Board: How One DVD Covers the Federation's VacuumOn the third floor of the federation hall in Purana Paltan, the steel cupboar...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: One 9...a5 and an Incomplete LedgerLast week a round-report headline landed on my desk, and the text sitting...