Chess
Not a Fifth Title but a Six-Video Course: Inside the Headline-Body Fracture of Chess Media
Caruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body: Auditing an Unverified Claim
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A DVD Claim on the Mar del Plata King's Indian, and a Headline Gap
The 5.e5 Ledger: A Club Player's 'Perfect' Weapon, or an Unproven Promise?
ChessThe Bayonet Antidote 9...a5 and the Old Wound of Anti-Engine MarketingA chess DVD blurb makes a small claim: "computers often do not know how to...
ChessNot a Fifth Title but a Six-Video Course: Inside the Headline-Body Fracture of Chess MediaI opened the page for Caruana. The headline was blunt—Fabiano Caruana, on the...
ChessCaruana in the Headline, a Course in the Body: Auditing an Unverified ClaimLate one afternoon last month, at my desk in Dublin, I opened a chess news...
Chess9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A DVD Claim on the Mar del Plata King's Indian, and a Headline GapI sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue. In...
ChessKing's Indian, Mar del Plata: Black's 9...a5 Against the 9.b4 Bayonet — a DVD Proposal, Engine Silence, and a Headline Still Awaiting Verification"I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting." Sitting down with a...
ChessChess Is Not Inexpressive, It Is Invisible: The Eval Bar and the Missing Audience2026, Dhaka Premier Division Chess League. The game has reached move 37; both...
ChessThe 5.e5 Ledger: A Club Player's 'Perfect' Weapon, or an Unproven Promise?It is half past eight on a Saturday night. In a club hall on the second floor...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings, One Wrong Headline: Inside Chess's Course EconomyLast month I opened a page whose headline carried a tournament's name —...
Chess5.e5 and the Receipt Nobody Kept: Auditing an Italian-Scotch Hybrid Line for Club PlayersLast week I opened the script of an online chess-instructional video at my de...
ChessBent Larsen's Name, ChessBase 225, and Bangladesh's Empty BoardThe headline says Bent Larsen. Inside, there is no Larsen — not a single clau...
ChessA FIDE Assembly on the Masthead, a Najdorf Download on the Page: Sixty Minutes and the Paper Trail of a MislabelIn the chess federation hall at Purana Paltan, a coffee ring on the second...
ChessA '2026 FIDE Ratings' Headline on a Scotch Defence Pitch: When the Headline and the Tape DisagreeLast week, at my Bangalore desk, I opened a listing. The headline was blunt —...
ChessChessMom Returns: Supporting Mothers On and Off the Board – But Who Is This DVD Really For?ChessMom Returns: The Revenge of 9...a5, or Just Another Marketing Label? Hoo...
ChessTwo Wins in Ten Rounds: India's Silver in Samarkand and Bangladesh's Empty BoardTwo wins in ten rounds. The number looked like a typo at first. Put 2/10 besi...
ChessThe Ledger of Zero Moves: A Sicilian Brilliancy, 27 Miniatures, and ChessBase Magazine #225Late last week, at half past eleven at night, a headline surfaced on my...