Chess
The Chess Training Market: The Injury Story Behind a Product Ad
The Bazaar Instead of the Board: How 'Game of the Week #746' Ended Without a Game
Attack on the Cover, Defence Inside: The DVD Selling 9...a5 Against the Bayonet
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Marketing Gap Inside a King's Indian DVD
The Number Nobody Wrote Beside "Perfect": European Club Cup, Stale Scotch Advice, and the Unwritten Economy of Club Chess
ChessThe Knight on the Rim, the Plan Under ScrutinyAfter 1.d4 d5, if White declines 2.c4, Black does not enter the familiar maze...
ChessSavitha Shri’s 5/5: Is India’s Real Strength Its Lower-Board Depth?A score sheet in Samarkand now carries one number brighter than the rest: 5/5...
ChessThe Chess Training Market: The Injury Story Behind a Product AdI stopped at a number while reading the promotional leaflet for ChessBase...
ChessThe Bazaar Instead of the Board: How 'Game of the Week #746' Ended Without a GameEpisode #746 of a long-running weekly chess series arrives with a title that...
ChessConfusion in the Chess Prep Market: Chigorin on the Cover, the Italian Game's 5.e5 InsideThe chess instruction market has produced a striking but confusing product. A...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, a Magazine in the Body: Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Missing Round EightMy work begins with counting. Last week a sports feed handed me a headline:...
ChessEight Points and One Blank Receipt: The 2026 US Women's ChampionshipOn October 23, 2026, in the club venue at Saint Louis, the round-eleven resul...
ChessAttack on the Cover, Defence Inside: The DVD Selling 9...a5 Against the BayonetAcross the top of the cover, in large type: King's Indian Attack at the...
ChessCapablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Marketing Gap Inside a King's Indian DVDAt the end of round two of the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, I wrote one lin...
ChessThe Number Nobody Wrote Beside "Perfect": European Club Cup, Stale Scotch Advice, and the Unwritten Economy of Club ChessHalf past eleven at night, two tabs open on the laptop on a table in Rangpur....
ChessThe 'Perfect' Scores of Novy Bor and SuperChess, and a Stale Scotch Page: The Ledger Nobody Filed at the European Club CupThe headline carried two names — Novy Bor and SuperChess, both supposedly...
ChessThe Elephant Gambit: The Four-Minute Trap That Banks Club Points and the Price Players Pay for ItA hand hovers over a knight while the eyes stay on the clock. Ninth minute of...
ChessThe Cupboard's Echo, the Closed Sicilian g2-g3, and a False HeadlineThe steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. In 2026,...
ChessA Tournament in the Headline, a Course in the Body — Vlastimil Hort 2026 and the Ledger Where Not a Single Move Was Ever Written1. Hook — A Tournament in the Headline, Zero Moves on the Board Last Sunday...
ChessThe Sicilian 'Brilliancy' and the Empty Squares: Who Gets Paid to Explain in the Chess Content MarketIntroduction: What the Headline Has, What the Spreadsheet Doesn't When I read...
ChessVietnam's Group-B Gold and the Body of Eleven Rounds: A 2456 Rating, Three Absent Grandmasters, and an Unverified CalendarVietnam's Group-B Gold and the Body of Eleven Rounds Hook When the final-roun...