Chess
Five Grandmasters, One Notebook, and Tk 11 LakhThe clock on the last board at the Purana Paltan hall was close to midnight...
Chess Has a Subject, but No Evidence: Analysis Stalls After a Complete Information FailureA chessboard sometimes tells its most important story through the move that w...
The Ledger of 40 Moves: Is Sindarov's Spectacular Win Over Nakamura a True Signal Before Gukesh, or Just a Rapid-Play Trap?That moment still glows on my desk. The victory Javokhir Sindarov secured wit...
Four Stars in Saint Louis and a Course: The Opaque Reality of Chess MediaThe steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still holds Niaz Murshed's 2026 norm shee...
The Moves Nobody Counts: Wei Yi's Eighth Round, the Keymer System and the Verification Gap in Chess CoachingThree moves and a closed door 1.Nf3 d5 2.e3. Three moves. No sacrifice, no...
From Eight Points to Eight and a Half: Rachael Li's Title and the Cold Arithmetic of an IM NormEleven rounds. Eight points from ten. In the last round, Anna Zatonskih sat...
CBM #225: You Can Buy the Training, You Cannot Buy the PipelineLast night in my Boston flat I found myself counting a table of contents. The...
I Counted Heartbeats in Paltan, and the Numbers Confessed More Than the TacklesReading that Carlsen interview felt like walking back into the Paltan...
A Wrong Title, An Advertising Body: How Chess Journalism's Credibility Square Went EmptyThe window was shut in a Mymensingh bedroom, a secondhand laptop sat on the...
Total Chess's Unified Rating: The Ten-Week Arithmetic That Will Not Balance Before BudapestTen weeks. That is exactly how much runway remains before the first board is...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: What a One-Hour Repertoire Actually Buys, and Where It BreaksIn April 2026 I strapped heart-rate monitors to six players at the Premier...
Chess Course Title Mismatch, Data Fragility, and the Limits of Blockchain ProofA 60-minute chess course is titled “Endgame Magic #340: Three recent pearls...