Chess
Sixty Minutes, Seven Claims, Zero Moves: The Scandinavian Defense Poster With the Wrong Name on It1:40 in the morning. The rain had stopped over Kolkata and I was on a product...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye's NATO Chess Championship Win: The Real Board Behind an Incomplete StoryOne morning, as I sat at my desk in Hyderabad, a headline appeared before me:...
A Unified Rating in the Headline, Four Players and Eleven Days in the BodyThe press note released on 29 August 2026 carried six facts and one photo...
The NATO Chess Headline and the Najdorf Video: How a Publishing Error Turned Türkiye's Win Into a Brand More Than a StoryLast week, scrolling through chess news over my morning coffee in Hyderabad, ...
A Nicosia Meeting, an Unsourced FIDE Presidency Claim, and the X-Ray of an Empty News ItemI scrolled back up twice while reading the item out of Nicosia. The headline...
NATO Chess Title and a Najdorf Video: Two Separate Stories Behind One HeadlineOn Monday morning I opened the headline — "Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye trium...
The Invisible Clock of Mar del Plata: The Silence of 9...a5 and Black's Gamble Against the White BayonetIn recent months I have replayed those King's Indian Defense games where Whit...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Cover's Promise, the Pages' Silence — and Chess's Annotation EconomyThe cover of ChessBase Magazine #225 makes a clean promise: "European Club Cu...
The Loneliness of 2715: Europe's Club Cup Favourite Holds a Half-Board-Point LeadMonday, 19 October 2026, and a single paragraph arrives in my inbox. 108 team...
A European Club Cup Headline With No Boards Behind It: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225ChessBase Magazine #225's product page carries a headline: “European Club Cup...
A European Club Cup headline over a Prague catalogue: auditing ChessBase Magazine #225In June 2026 I logged all sixty-four World Cup matches from a rented room in...
The Cover Says Club Cup, the Pages Say Prague: The Real Score of Chess's Content Economy“European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the favourites.” That sentence is th...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: Three Formats, Four Players, and a Rating Claim the Body Text Never MakesThe press note that went out on 29 August 2026 carried a headline about a...
Total Chess Unified Rating System: The Full Story from Budapest Pilot to 2027 Multi-City TourIn the cold November air of a Budapest tournament hall, when I first heard th...
The Elephant Gambit: Technical Post-Mortem of a Promotional Page, from Budva Headlines to the 3.exd5 GapThe headline announcing the European Club Cup kicking off in Budva and the...
Not a Chess Book, but the Smell of the Room: A Report on the 9...a5 Move in the Mar del PlataIn a Chennai tournament hall, between the hum of the fans and the smell of we...
A Budva Club Cup Headline Above a Selling Elephant Gambit: Two Different Stories on One PageBudva appears exactly once on this page — in the headline. Beneath it sit...
Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye's NATO Chess Championship Win: The Real Board Behind an Incomplete StoryOne morning, as I sat at my desk in Hyderabad, a headline appeared before me:...
A Unified Rating in the Headline, Four Players and Eleven Days in the BodyThe press note released on 29 August 2026 carried six facts and one photo...
The NATO Chess Headline and the Najdorf Video: How a Publishing Error Turned Türkiye's Win Into a Brand More Than a StoryLast week, scrolling through chess news over my morning coffee in Hyderabad, ...
A Nicosia Meeting, an Unsourced FIDE Presidency Claim, and the X-Ray of an Empty News ItemI scrolled back up twice while reading the item out of Nicosia. The headline...
NATO Chess Title and a Najdorf Video: Two Separate Stories Behind One HeadlineOn Monday morning I opened the headline — "Vahap Sanal and Team Türkiye trium...
The Invisible Clock of Mar del Plata: The Silence of 9...a5 and Black's Gamble Against the White BayonetIn recent months I have replayed those King's Indian Defense games where Whit...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Cover's Promise, the Pages' Silence — and Chess's Annotation EconomyThe cover of ChessBase Magazine #225 makes a clean promise: "European Club Cu...
The Loneliness of 2715: Europe's Club Cup Favourite Holds a Half-Board-Point LeadMonday, 19 October 2026, and a single paragraph arrives in my inbox. 108 team...
A European Club Cup Headline With No Boards Behind It: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225ChessBase Magazine #225's product page carries a headline: “European Club Cup...
A European Club Cup headline over a Prague catalogue: auditing ChessBase Magazine #225In June 2026 I logged all sixty-four World Cup matches from a rented room in...
The Cover Says Club Cup, the Pages Say Prague: The Real Score of Chess's Content Economy“European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the favourites.” That sentence is th...
Total Chess's Budapest Pilot: Three Formats, Four Players, and a Rating Claim the Body Text Never MakesThe press note that went out on 29 August 2026 carried a headline about a...
Total Chess Unified Rating System: The Full Story from Budapest Pilot to 2027 Multi-City TourIn the cold November air of a Budapest tournament hall, when I first heard th...
The Elephant Gambit: Technical Post-Mortem of a Promotional Page, from Budva Headlines to the 3.exd5 GapThe headline announcing the European Club Cup kicking off in Budva and the...
Not a Chess Book, but the Smell of the Room: A Report on the 9...a5 Move in the Mar del PlataIn a Chennai tournament hall, between the hum of the fans and the smell of we...
A Budva Club Cup Headline Above a Selling Elephant Gambit: Two Different Stories on One PageBudva appears exactly once on this page — in the headline. Beneath it sit...
