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ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and Bangladesh's Absence
The Move No One Saw: Wei Yi, the Keymer System, and the Quiet Revolution
The Null Signal: Why Verified Data Beats Speculation in Chess Analysis
Sixty Minutes in the Shadow of the Najdorf: Daniel King, the Repertoire Economy, and a Title That Promised Something Else
A Tsaghkadzor Headline, a King's Indian Advertisement: The Wrong Page in the Chess File
The Mask of FIDE Ratings: October 2026 Headline, Scotch Defense Ad, and Bangladesh Chess Ledger
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and Bangladesh's AbsenceIn the first week of September I opened a product page looking for a...
Two Moves, Two Headlines: The US Championship Upset and Sixty Minutes of the Elephant GambitIt was two in the morning in Dublin. Dhaka sat five hours ahead, seven a.m.,...
15-Year-Old Hussain Besou Joins the Bavarian Championship Leaders, but Bigger Claims Need More DataFifteen-year-old Hussain Besou has joined the leaders at the Bavarian...
Bodhana Sivanandan: How an 11-Year-Old Broke a 38-Year-Old Record to Become History's Youngest Female IMWhen the clock on the board reached move 32 in the final round of the Europea...
The Move No One Saw: Wei Yi, the Keymer System, and the Quiet RevolutionIt was the eighth round of the Olympiad. A team event, board after board, a...
The Changing Map of Chess: From an Eighteen-Year-Old Gukesh to a New World OrderThere are few moments in the long history of chess when a single match has...
A Generational Shift in Chess: India's Rise in the Post-Carlsen EraIn December 2026, in Singapore, an 18-year-old named D Gukesh completed the...
The Final Move of the Heart on the ChessboardJune 22, 2026. The air in the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana Palt...
Controversy Over New ChessBase Opening Course: Chigorin in the Title, Italian Game InsideA newly released video course in the commercial chess training market has...
A Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Sales Page: The Final That Cannot Name a Single CompetitorI started counting the moment I finished the headline. Fujairah will host the...
A President Without a Vote, a Najdorf Without a Repertoire: One Broken Dossier and Bangladesh's Arithmetic of AbsenceYou have to stop at the sixth move. 6.h3. In the Najdorf branch of the Sicili...
The Budva Headline, the Elephant Gambit's Body: An Autopsy of Product CopyIn my Khulna flat, on the screen of a 2026 laptop, a headline surfaces: "The...
Giri–Abdusattorov's Name, Six Videos, and the Board That Never OpenedSeven-thirty in the evening at a tea stall in Purana Paltan. The August heat...
The Null Signal: Why Verified Data Beats Speculation in Chess AnalysisIntroduction: There Is a Message Inside the Void A quiet crisis runs through...
A Survival Course Against 1.d4 Sidelines: Analyzing Lilov's Six-Video RepertoireIn recent years, alongside the spread of online chess and faster time control...
Capablanca in the Headline, King's Indian in the Body: Auditing an Opening DVDI read the headline twice. I read the body once. The two readings did not...
The 'Antidote' Claim of 9...a5: A King's Indian Ledger and a DVD's Empty BoardHook Last week an opening DVD advertisement landed on my desk. The headline...
The Headline Ran Ahead, the File Fell Behind: Vahap Sanal, the NATO Chess Championship and the Najdorf Update“6.h3.” White's sixth move in the main-line Sicilian Najdorf makes you pause,...
Empty Block, Empty Board: The Analysis That Had No MovesAt half past seven in the morning I opened the laptop. The file was there,...
The Scotch Revival: From Kasparov's 2026 to Mikhalchishin's '60 Minutes' — A Data AuditHook: A Headline That Disagrees With Its Own Body I opened the page and read...
The Course That Sells Under Caruana's Headline: Chess Media's Clickbait EconomyI clicked a headline this morning about Fabiano Caruana chasing a fifth...
Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4? Eleven Years, Seven Games, and a Ledger Nobody Is BalancingI stopped at the headline. 3.Bc4 — a bishop to c4 on move three. The question...
Samarkand in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: Auditing Women's Chess NewsI opened a page about Round 7 of the women's team chess in Samarkand expectin...
Sixty Minutes in the Shadow of the Najdorf: Daniel King, the Repertoire Economy, and a Title That Promised Something ElseLast month a link landed in my inbox. The headline said, "Main decisions of t...