Chess
5.e5: The Advert for a Club Weapon and the Shadow of a Showcase Game
ChessBase Magazine #225: Mapping Chess's Paid Training Market, and a Title-Content Gap
5.e5!: Sveshnikov's Weapon, the Club Player's Gamble — and Sarana's Unfinished Story
A King Walk With No Ledger: Sarana's Olympiad, Sveshnikov's 5.e5, and the Three Doors Open to a Club Player
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Training-Content Market, Recycled Opening Theory and a Metadata Mismatch
5.e5: The Advert for a Club Weapon and the Shadow of a Showcase GameHook The move is number five. 5.e5. Black's knight was standing on f6; now it...
5.e5!: Sveshnikov's Weapon, the Club Player's Gamble — and Sarana's Unfinished StoryLast month I got stuck on a single sentence of an opening column. The headlin...
A King Walk With No Ledger: Sarana's Olympiad, Sveshnikov's 5.e5, and the Three Doors Open to a Club PlayerA Headline, A Missing Move I open the column. The headline says Alexei Sarana...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Training-Content Market, Recycled Opening Theory and a Metadata MismatchOpen the contents list of ChessBase Magazine #225 and the first thing that...
The Headline Says Samarkand, the File Says Prague 2026: Chess Training's Market and Bangladesh's Missing MiddleThe file opened at seven in the evening, in the same Mymensingh room where I...
Not Samarkand, But ChessBase Magazine #225 — A Metadata Audit LedgerI opened the file expecting exactly one thing: round eight of the women's tea...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Mapping Chess's Paid Training Market, and a Title-Content GapThe file was labelled Samarkand — Round 8, women's section, China 15/16. The...
Samarkand's Headline, the Scandinavian's Body: A Chess File That Sells Two Different ThingsLate on a Monday night in my room in Mymensingh I was sorting a batch of file...
Samarkand's Headline, the Scandinavian's BodySeven in the morning, Saint Petersburg. Fog is settling on the Neva, and my...
The Price of Board Five: Savitha Shri's 7/7, a Father's Savings, and the Real Bill of Indian ChessSamarkand, 2026. The clock on the table has crossed five hours. In front of a...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes, Five Grandmasters, and the Queen on a5In December 2026, between rounds at the Purana Paltan hall during a Biman–Nav...
5.e5!: Sveshnikov's Weapon, the Club Player's Gamble — and Sarana's Unfinished StoryLast month I got stuck on a single sentence of an opening column. The headlin...
A King Walk With No Ledger: Sarana's Olympiad, Sveshnikov's 5.e5, and the Three Doors Open to a Club PlayerA Headline, A Missing Move I open the column. The headline says Alexei Sarana...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Training-Content Market, Recycled Opening Theory and a Metadata MismatchOpen the contents list of ChessBase Magazine #225 and the first thing that...
The Headline Says Samarkand, the File Says Prague 2026: Chess Training's Market and Bangladesh's Missing MiddleThe file opened at seven in the evening, in the same Mymensingh room where I...
Not Samarkand, But ChessBase Magazine #225 — A Metadata Audit LedgerI opened the file expecting exactly one thing: round eight of the women's tea...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Mapping Chess's Paid Training Market, and a Title-Content GapThe file was labelled Samarkand — Round 8, women's section, China 15/16. The...
Samarkand's Headline, the Scandinavian's Body: A Chess File That Sells Two Different ThingsLate on a Monday night in my room in Mymensingh I was sorting a batch of file...
Samarkand's Headline, the Scandinavian's BodySeven in the morning, Saint Petersburg. Fog is settling on the Neva, and my...
The Price of Board Five: Savitha Shri's 7/7, a Father's Savings, and the Real Bill of Indian ChessSamarkand, 2026. The clock on the table has crossed five hours. In front of a...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes, Five Grandmasters, and the Queen on a5In December 2026, between rounds at the Purana Paltan hall during a Biman–Nav...