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Wesley So's Fourth US Title and the Empty Room in Chess Course Marketing
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and an Invisible Ledger
The Power of Initiative in Chess: A One-Hour Lesson in the Scandinavian Defense
Chess Training's Market Is Expanding, Not Its Pipeline
3.Bc4 vs the Sicilian — Seriously? Bodhana Sivanandan's Seven-Round Ledger
The 2730 Trap: A Teenager, a Press Release, and the Record Nobody Verified
Wesley So's Fourth US Title and the Empty Room in Chess Course MarketingWhen Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in the rapid tiebreak board to win his...
Six Videos, One Title: The Game That Was Never Written Under Giri and Abdusattorov's NamesThe old fan in the Khulna club room turns and moves no air. Last Tuesday...
A Crown With No Scoreline: Who Paid for Europe's Club Chess?The headline runs one line. “Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo are 2026 European...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and an Invisible LedgerEvery September a new ChessBase issue reaches the market, and my first job is...
Confusion in the Name of Chess Governance: A Report That Misattributes the FIDE PresidencyWhen a printed headline spreads faster than the truth, even a game like chess...
The Power of Initiative in Chess: A One-Hour Lesson in the Scandinavian DefenseThere was a strange silence that day. In a small club room in Penang, where I...
The Trap of Preparation: The Italian Game's 5.e5 and the Economics of Club-Level MovesHook Last winter I sat watching a game at a club tournament in Delhi. White...
Chess Training's Market Is Expanding, Not Its PipelineTwo courses, one name, one comparison. ChessBase's FritzTrainer line has adde...
When the Headline and the Board Walk Different Paths: Caruana's 'Fifth Consecutive' Claim, Lilov's Six Videos, and the Crack in the Coaching Market1:47 a.m. I closed the engine's bar chart on the laptop in my Mymensingh room...
3.Bc4 vs the Sicilian — Seriously? Bodhana Sivanandan's Seven-Round LedgerSeptember 24, 2026. The report is tied to the Samarkand Olympiad — the source...
Rented Analysis: 27 Miniatures, Four Grandmasters, and Bangladesh's Missing Sixth Name"White's 23...Nd7" — that was how I used to open a match report, never with t...
The 2730 Trap: A Teenager, a Press Release, and the Record Nobody VerifiedIt is almost two in the morning in Saint Petersburg. Cold air drifts in from...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Mismatched Title: Auditing the Black-Side Defence MarketThe page opens in under a minute. Across the top, in large type: ‘Chess is...
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD's Body: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and an Engine-Era MythAt three in the morning in my Mymensingh bedroom I opened a secondhand laptop...
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Verification Crisis in the Chess Theory MarketWhat the Headline Didn't Deliver The headline was clean: “Samarkand R7 (open)...
Samarkand R7: One Match Point, Zero Moves, and the Architecture of an AdvertisementHook The page in front of me carried four things in its headline. Samarkand,...
Open Ledger, Closed Door: What Actually Changes If an Eleven-Lakh Board Goes On-ChainThe door of the hall in Purana Paltan is made of tin, and it makes a sound wh...
In the Scotch File, a Name That Doesn't ExistLate last Sunday, at half past eleven, I opened a page at my Bangalore desk...
Thirty Minutes in Hand, Three Moves Lost: Nihal, Team Scoring and the Samarkand LedgerI picked up my phone at half past eleven at night in a rented flat in Mumbai....