Chess
Carlsen's Weapon in 60 Minutes: The Scandinavian Defense's Promotional Claims and My Ledger
Anti-Meran in the Headline, Closed Sicilian on the Board: The Miniature That Wrote Two Entries in My Ledger
Thirty Minutes in Hand, Three Moves to Spare: How Nihal's Blunder Entered India's Scoresheet
Is Chess Inexpressive, or Have We Failed to Watch It?
ChessEmpty Cells, Empty Ledgers: The Evidence Gap in Chess Analysis and Bangladesh's Missing YearsA file landed on my desk last week. A complete technical assessment of a ches...
ChessCarlsen's Weapon in 60 Minutes: The Scandinavian Defense's Promotional Claims and My LedgerI switched off my second-hand scanner and set it on the desk. During the elev...
ChessThe Scotch Defense in a Steel Cupboard: Where Kasparov's 2026 and Mikhalchishin's 2026 Rot TogetherThe steel cupboard opened and the coffee ring was the first thing I saw. That...
ChessThe Battle Beyond the Chessboard: Why Bangladesh Has Not Produced a New Grandmaster for Over a DecadeLast December, when I sat at the final table of the National Chess...
ChessChigorin Defence or Italian Game? Confusion Surrounds a Commercial Chess RepertoireA commercial chess opening repertoire package has run into a serious internal...
ChessAnti-Meran in the Headline, Closed Sicilian on the Board: The Miniature That Wrote Two Entries in My LedgerJune 25, 2026. A monsoon evening in Mumbai, a stack of printouts beside the...
ChessThirty Minutes in Hand, Three Moves to Spare: How Nihal's Blunder Entered India's ScoresheetThirty Minutes in Hand, Three Moves to Spare: How Nihal's Blunder Entered...
Chess9...a5: Accounting for a Club-Level Antidote to the Bayonet AttackOn move nine, White pushed the b-pawn to b4. At the next table a coach tapped...
ChessA Saint Louis Headline on a London System Advertisement: The Arithmetic of a Mismatched Chess Content Market1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5. The Trompowsky. Those three moves still pull up a specific ro...
ChessThe Sixth Grandmaster's Ledger: The Sum Bangladesh's Chess Never BalancedOn the board the move was 23...Nd7 — ordinary, harmless, almost silent. At th...
ChessThe Empty Dataset: How Bangladesh Chess Lost Its Own ArchiveFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. Last night...