Chess
Dragon Chilling Wins Twice in Hong Kong Team Rapid, but Ding Liren Story Remains Contradictory
44 Games, 13 Winning Positions, 3 Conversions: Where Bangladesh's Chess Lost the Plot in the Batumi Olympiad Score-Sheet
Giri–Abdusattorov in the Headline, Six Videos in the Body
From Capablanca 2026 to 9...a5: An Anonymous DVD's Claims and the Chess Ledger
The Selangor Grid: What the 6/6 Does Not ShowI was standing in the back row of the hall in Selangor with a folded copy of...
Petroff or Scandinavian: The Identity Problem at the Center of a Chess VideoA chess instructional video is described with two different openings, two...
Before Calling 15-Year-Old Besou a 'Prodigy': What a Mid-Event Lead at the Bavarian Championship Says—and Doesn't SayLast week, while scanning the mid-event standings of the Bavarian Championshi...
Dragon Chilling Wins Twice in Hong Kong Team Rapid, but Ding Liren Story Remains ContradictoryThe most important fact in the published report about the World Team Rapid an...
The Coaching Content Market Before the Chess World Cup: A Veteran Reporter's NotebookLast week at the Bangladesh Chess Federation premises, I watched a young play...
A Checklist, Not a Pitch: The Four 1.d4 Sidelines and the Story of an Unfinished PromiseThe steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still holds a coffee ring—dried, round,...
Echoes of a Steel Cupboard: Why Bangladesh Chess Still Waits for a Sixth GrandmasterThe steel cupboard in the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana Paltan...
Wei Yi with Black at the Olympiad's Eighth Round: Breaking the Keymer System and the Classic Counterattacking TemplateThe eighth round of the Chess Olympiad. In the middle of a long, exhausting...
44 Games, 13 Winning Positions, 3 Conversions: Where Bangladesh's Chess Lost the Plot in the Batumi Olympiad Score-SheetIn September 2026 I sat at a Mumbai desk during the 43rd Chess Olympiad in...
Giri–Abdusattorov in the Headline, Six Videos in the BodyGame of the Week #745: Anish Giri vs Nodirbek Abdusattorov. The headline made...