Chess
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Sample: Auditing the 1.d4 d5 'Right King Road' Course
The Rise of the London System: Black's Preparation in the 'Anti-Theory' Era — A Deep Dive into the ChessBase Series
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Unequal Preparation Ledger for Black
Plus-Two With 30 Minutes Left: How One Board Decided India's Olympiad Match
A Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Body: Telling Signal from Noise in the Chess Theory MarketA chess DVD's sales page carried this headline: “Samarkand Round 7 (Open):...
A Draw in the Headline, an Advertisement in the Body: The Samarkand Round 7 Report Nobody WroteIt was half past eleven at night in my study in Rangpur when I opened the pag...
The Bayonet 'Antidote' 9...a5 and the Samarkand Headline: The Tactics Inside a Data MismatchHook: Two sheets, one gap Two pages sit side by side on my desk. The first...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Sample: Auditing the 1.d4 d5 'Right King Road' CourseHook: Where the Ratio Breaks Six videos. Seven openings. Zero sample games....
The Rise of the London System: Black's Preparation in the 'Anti-Theory' Era — A Deep Dive into the ChessBase SeriesFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, when I first sat down to play online against the...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Unequal Preparation Ledger for BlackMarch 2026. The stadiums were empty, and my board was the only ground still...
An Anti-Scotch Ad, a Phantom in the Headline, and a Spreadsheet That WaitsAn anti-Scotch product page, an unknown debutant in the headline, and a...
An Empty Calendar, Five Names: A Board-Level Analysis of Bangladesh's Grandmaster DroughtAn Empty Calendar, Five Names: A Board-Level Analysis of Bangladesh's...
Plus-Two With 30 Minutes Left: How One Board Decided India's Olympiad MatchThere were still 30 minutes on the clock. On the left of the screen the...