Chess
A Win in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: A Source Audit of the NATO Chess Title Item
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Course Sold on Carlsen's Name, and the Game Nobody Cites
Nine Information Points and Not One Move: Auditing the 'Antidote' Being Sold Against the King's Indian Bayonet
European Club Cup: Twenty-Five Teams on 2/2, and a Favourite's Margin of Half a Board Point
A Weapon Sold in the Language of Equality: Packaging 9...a5 as the 'Antidote' in the King's Indian Mar del Plata
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Makes You the Favourite, Not the Winner
European Club Cup: Twenty-Five Teams on 2/2, and a Favourite's Margin of Half a Board PointTwo rounds, 108 teams, and twenty-five of them sitting on 2/2 in the...
A Weapon Sold in the Language of Equality: Packaging 9...a5 as the 'Antidote' in the King's Indian Mar del PlataThe clock in that Kolkata office ran eleven minutes fast. Nobody noticed but...
A Win in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: A Source Audit of the NATO Chess Title ItemThree things make a title a title: a date, a score, and a board. Strip those...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Makes You the Favourite, Not the WinnerBefore the scoreboard, there was a bedsheet and a bad signal. September 2026,...
A Benko Gambit Review and FRITZ 20: One Report, Two ProductsI have an old habit from Kolkata: watch from the tribune first, then go home...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average Rating and the 'Favourite' Illusion — The Real Fight Is on Boards 4 to 6European Club Cup: The 2715 Average Rating and the 'Favourite' Illusion — The...
The Italian Game 5.e5 Branch: Auditing a Club Weapon, and a Title That Doesn't Match Its Own BodyI was standing behind the third table at the fifth round of the Kolkata Open,...
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Course Sold on Carlsen's Name, and the Game Nobody CitesHook At a rating open in Kolkata in November 2026, I hand-timed 214 games. Th...
Nine Information Points and Not One Move: Auditing the 'Antidote' Being Sold Against the King's Indian BayonetNine information points. I counted twice, because the first count did not fee...
Budapest Pilot: Total Chess 'World Championship Tour' and the Unfinished Story of a Unified Rating SystemWhen the clock starts in a Budapest hotel conference hall on November 10, 202...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Prague 2026 Payload, and an Audit of Eleven Data PointsThe headline reads: "European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the favourites."...
A Weapon Sold in the Language of Equality: Packaging 9...a5 as the 'Antidote' in the King's Indian Mar del PlataThe clock in that Kolkata office ran eleven minutes fast. Nobody noticed but...
A Win in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: A Source Audit of the NATO Chess Title ItemThree things make a title a title: a date, a score, and a board. Strip those...
European Club Cup: A 2715 Average Makes You the Favourite, Not the WinnerBefore the scoreboard, there was a bedsheet and a bad signal. September 2026,...
A Benko Gambit Review and FRITZ 20: One Report, Two ProductsI have an old habit from Kolkata: watch from the tribune first, then go home...
European Club Cup: The 2715 Average Rating and the 'Favourite' Illusion — The Real Fight Is on Boards 4 to 6European Club Cup: The 2715 Average Rating and the 'Favourite' Illusion — The...
The Italian Game 5.e5 Branch: Auditing a Club Weapon, and a Title That Doesn't Match Its Own BodyI was standing behind the third table at the fifth round of the Kolkata Open,...
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: A Course Sold on Carlsen's Name, and the Game Nobody CitesHook At a rating open in Kolkata in November 2026, I hand-timed 214 games. Th...
Nine Information Points and Not One Move: Auditing the 'Antidote' Being Sold Against the King's Indian BayonetNine information points. I counted twice, because the first count did not fee...
Budapest Pilot: Total Chess 'World Championship Tour' and the Unfinished Story of a Unified Rating SystemWhen the clock starts in a Budapest hotel conference hall on November 10, 202...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A European Club Cup Headline, a Prague 2026 Payload, and an Audit of Eleven Data PointsThe headline reads: "European Club Cup: Comfortable wins for the favourites."...