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From Dusk till Dawn — ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Physiology of Chess Study
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: A Ledger on Verifying Chess Sources
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: The Ledger the Press Room Never Balanced
Diagnosing 9...a5: The Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' and the Autopsy of a Headline Mismatch
The Five-Grandmaster Ceiling: Bangladesh's Chess Crisis Is Infrastructure, Not TalentMarch 2026. A bedroom in Mymensingh, a secondhand laptop, and the PGN files o...
Heartbreak in Samarkand: India Stops at Silver and Bronze as a Young Star RisesThe final day of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Samarkand ended without a wi...
Sixty Minutes Against the Scotch, Kasparov's 2026, and the Ledger of a Mismatched HeadlineTwo totals sit on the same page, and they do not reconcile. The top line read...
Carlsen's Confession: The Limits of Being Human in the AI Era and Budapest's New ExperimentOn 21 October, in an interview with Spain's AS, Magnus Carlsen said something...
Empty Folder, Full Board: South Asia's Chess Records CrisisI found South Asia's first grandmaster in a folder no one had opened in years...
The Ledger of Zero Data: The Record Bangladesh Chess Never KeptLast week a file landed on my desk: a forty-page analytical report. I opened ...
From Dusk till Dawn — ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Physiology of Chess StudyFrom dusk till dawn. The title belongs to a product, yet as I worked through...
From Dusk till Dawn: ChessBase #225, the Training Market, and the Ledger of Five GrandmastersI opened the downloaded PDF booklet in my Mumbai room, but I counted before I...
Is Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? One Outsider's Claim, 41 Championships, and the Tribune TrapMy ledger has a date written in it — 2026. That year I was digitizing 1,240...
Samarkand's Ledger: India's Depth Won Medals, the Gold Went Out at the Top BoardsI refreshed the final-round scoreboard in Samarkand twice. Eleven rounds of...
Heartbreak in Samarkand: India Stops at Silver and Bronze as a Young Star RisesThe final day of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Samarkand ended without a wi...
Sixty Minutes Against the Scotch, Kasparov's 2026, and the Ledger of a Mismatched HeadlineTwo totals sit on the same page, and they do not reconcile. The top line read...
Carlsen's Confession: The Limits of Being Human in the AI Era and Budapest's New ExperimentOn 21 October, in an interview with Spain's AS, Magnus Carlsen said something...
Empty Folder, Full Board: South Asia's Chess Records CrisisI found South Asia's first grandmaster in a folder no one had opened in years...
The Ledger of Zero Data: The Record Bangladesh Chess Never KeptLast week a file landed on my desk: a forty-page analytical report. I opened ...
From Dusk till Dawn — ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Physiology of Chess StudyFrom dusk till dawn. The title belongs to a product, yet as I worked through...
From Dusk till Dawn: ChessBase #225, the Training Market, and the Ledger of Five GrandmastersI opened the downloaded PDF booklet in my Mumbai room, but I counted before I...
Is Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? One Outsider's Claim, 41 Championships, and the Tribune TrapMy ledger has a date written in it — 2026. That year I was digitizing 1,240...
Samarkand's Ledger: India's Depth Won Medals, the Gold Went Out at the Top BoardsI refreshed the final-round scoreboard in Samarkand twice. Eleven rounds of...