Chess
The Price of 9...a5: A King's Indian DVD, an Outdated Engine Claim, and the Budget of PreparationIn 2026, inside the BCF hall at Purana Paltan, I drew 23 diagrams from a sing...
5.e5: A Storm on Club Boards, and a Headline That Doesn't Add UpLast week I opened the file and had to stop at the very first line. The...
A Result Without Moves, a Victory Without a LedgerI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The headline was cold...
Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4? An 11-Year-Old's 2504 at Samarkand — What the Scoresheet Says and What It Doesn'tHook: One Number, One Question Mark The air in the Samarkand tournament hall ...
The Empty Block: When Silence in Stage-2 Analysis Becomes the DatasetThis article analyzes the empty Stage-2 chess analysis report, where every...
2731 and a Chosen Threshold: Auditing Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş's Olympiad RecordThe loudest sentence in the Turkish Chess Federation's release is a scoreline...
The 2,730 Threshold: The Record FIDE Never Filed, the Federation DidThere is one line on the scoreboard. Ten matches, eight points, no defeats. T...
Savitha Shri: A Ledger of Seven Wins and a Father's Runway That Ran Out in Three YearsSavitha Shri was not at the board on the ninth round in Samarkand. India lost...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Ten Opening Articles, Twenty-Seven Miniatures — and Bangladesh's Empty ColumnHook: The page where Samarkand was not I opened the file looking for Samarkan...
Samarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: How a Feed Error Leaked the Architecture of the Chess MarketHook It is half past three in the morning in Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop ...
The Sword of Damocles Hangs Over the Buyer: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and Bangladesh's Club RealityIn 2026 I was tagging 640 league games in a Mymensingh bedroom — Premier...

