Chess
The Nicosia Meeting, the Unverified FIDE Presidency Claim, and the Software Sold Beneath the News
Benko on the Cover, Fritz in the Bullets: The Trust Question Inside Chess Review Journalism
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating System' Claim and the Budapest Pilot: The Numbers Missing From the Announcement
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? A Review With a Split Identity
A Photograph from Nicosia, a Half-Filled Scoresheet: The FIDE Presidency Claim That Needs Verifying
The Nicosia Meeting, the Unverified FIDE Presidency Claim, and the Software Sold Beneath the NewsIn Nicosia, a photograph and a headline became the news: FIDE President Timur...
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? A Review With a Split IdentityI opened the archive expecting 1,180 games and found one season. I wrote that...
A Photograph from Nicosia, a Half-Filled Scoresheet: The FIDE Presidency Claim That Needs VerifyingA photograph arrived from Nicosia. Two men, a handshake, two flags behind the...
A NATO chess headline, a Najdorf video body: the empty space between two documentsThe headline said one thing. The body said another. I sat with both. Monday...
The 5.e5 Sideline in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon, and a Headline Selling Something ElseIn a club off Matunga, the board was on move fifteen and the clock had three...
Carlsen's AI Headline Is Noise; the Real Story Is His 'Win Faster' StrategyOn 21 October 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS published a long interview with...
Scandinavian Defense: Learn It in 60 Minutes, But Is It Really Carlsen-Approved?IM Andrew Martin's 60-minute video course on the Scandinavian Defense (1.e4 d...
Italian 5.e5: Bodhana Sivanandan in the Title, a Club-Level Repertoire in the BodyAt 1:40 a.m. I published 'India are champions'. At 2:15 a.m. FIDE's statement...
A Benko Gambit Label, Fritz 20 Contents: The Structural Flaw in Chess Product ReviewsIn the Kallang studio that night, the lower-third carried the wrong name. The...
Benko on the Cover, Fritz in the Bullets: The Trust Question Inside Chess Review JournalismThe last week of November, 28 November 2026, eleven-forty at night. Two lamps...
In the Shadow of Mar del Plata: The 'Antidote' 9...a5 and the Reality of Closed PositionsA Wednesday afternoon in a small studio in Ahmedabad, I reopened a blitz game...
The Ledger Behind 'Comfortable Wins': CBM #225, Prague 2026 and Chess's Annotator Economy1:40 a.m. in Hyderabad. A laptop screen holds the product page for ChessBase...
European Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, But the Real Question Is — Comfortable for Whom?The European Club Cup immediately conjures images of big boards, 2700+ rated...
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating System' Claim and the Budapest Pilot: The Numbers Missing From the AnnouncementThe first thing that jars in the Total Chess announcement is not a move or a...
Benko Gambit or Fritz 20? A Review With a Split IdentityI opened the archive expecting 1,180 games and found one season. I wrote that...
A Photograph from Nicosia, a Half-Filled Scoresheet: The FIDE Presidency Claim That Needs VerifyingA photograph arrived from Nicosia. Two men, a handshake, two flags behind the...
A NATO chess headline, a Najdorf video body: the empty space between two documentsThe headline said one thing. The body said another. I sat with both. Monday...
The 5.e5 Sideline in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon, and a Headline Selling Something ElseIn a club off Matunga, the board was on move fifteen and the clock had three...
Carlsen's AI Headline Is Noise; the Real Story Is His 'Win Faster' StrategyOn 21 October 2026, the Spanish newspaper AS published a long interview with...
Scandinavian Defense: Learn It in 60 Minutes, But Is It Really Carlsen-Approved?IM Andrew Martin's 60-minute video course on the Scandinavian Defense (1.e4 d...
Italian 5.e5: Bodhana Sivanandan in the Title, a Club-Level Repertoire in the BodyAt 1:40 a.m. I published 'India are champions'. At 2:15 a.m. FIDE's statement...
A Benko Gambit Label, Fritz 20 Contents: The Structural Flaw in Chess Product ReviewsIn the Kallang studio that night, the lower-third carried the wrong name. The...
Benko on the Cover, Fritz in the Bullets: The Trust Question Inside Chess Review JournalismThe last week of November, 28 November 2026, eleven-forty at night. Two lamps...
In the Shadow of Mar del Plata: The 'Antidote' 9...a5 and the Reality of Closed PositionsA Wednesday afternoon in a small studio in Ahmedabad, I reopened a blitz game...
The Ledger Behind 'Comfortable Wins': CBM #225, Prague 2026 and Chess's Annotator Economy1:40 a.m. in Hyderabad. A laptop screen holds the product page for ChessBase...
European Club Cup: Comfortable Wins for the Favourites, But the Real Question Is — Comfortable for Whom?The European Club Cup immediately conjures images of big boards, 2700+ rated...
Total Chess's 'Unified Rating System' Claim and the Budapest Pilot: The Numbers Missing From the AnnouncementThe first thing that jars in the Total Chess announcement is not a move or a...