Chess
An Empty File, a Full Record: When Does a Chess Result Actually Become a Result?
European Club Cup: A 'Perfect' Headline, a Scotch Advert, and the Missing Crosstable
Saint Louis in the Headline, the London System in the Body: An Open Lesson in Chess Journalism
The Echo of Victory, the Scrape of a Chair, and Indian Chess's Unfinished Ledger
Eight Openings, Six Videos, Zero Moves: What 'Game of the Week #745' Reveals About Chess's Instruction Economy
An Empty File, a Full Record: When Does a Chess Result Actually Become a Result?An Empty File, a Full Record: When Does a Chess Result Actually Become a...
Saint Louis in the Headline, the London System in the Body: An Open Lesson in Chess JournalismLast week, in a club in Malleshwaram, I looked at the clock and noted the tim...
The Echo of Victory, the Scrape of a Chair, and Indian Chess's Unfinished LedgerDecember 12, 2026. The hall in Sentosa where the fourteenth game of the World...
Eight Openings, Six Videos, Zero Moves: What 'Game of the Week #745' Reveals About Chess's Instruction EconomyAt half past nine on a Tuesday night, the last blitz round at a cafe in...
The Headline Was Clutch Chess, the Page Was a Fritz 20 Ad: When the Door to a Story Becomes a Sales CounterLast week, at my Kolkata desk, I opened a page whose headline read that...
Capablanca's 2026 and 9...a5's 2026: One Headline, Two Different ErasBuenos Aires, 2026. The eighth Chess Olympiad. Cuba's first board, and on it ...
The Headline Says Najdorf, the Body Plays the Elephant Gambit — Auditing a 60-Minute Chess CourseTwo things collided three seconds into the product page. The headline said...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Auditing an Opening Guide Where Carlsen's Name Is Not EvidenceMy spiral notebook has two columns for every event. The left column holds wha...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, but the Coverage Ledger Came Back IncompleteIt was twenty minutes to three in the morning at a chess club off Southern...
The Player Who Explains Himself: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Slow Media Economy of ChessEvery September it happens the same way. The issue opens, and I don't read th...
European Club Cup: A 'Perfect' Headline, a Scotch Advert, and the Missing CrosstableThe headline is clean: Novy Bor and SuperChess remain perfect at the European...
A NATO Headline, a Najdorf Page: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and One MismatchAt eleven on a Thursday night in Chicago I opened a link. The headline was...
A Pawn on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit, a Sixty-Minute Course and a Mislabelled HeadlineA Tuesday blitz night at a club in Andheri. A fourteen-year-old was playing...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and One Empty Field — The YearThe September catalogue arrives and every box looks ticked. Ten opening...
NATO Triumph or Najdorf Update? Auditing a Headline–Body Mismatch in Chess MediaTwo tabs were open on my desk in Chicago on a Tuesday night. The first carrie...