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A Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Advertisement: The WFCC Grand Prix Final Story That Carries No News
The Headline Announces a FIDE Decision; the Body Sells a 60-Minute Opening Video — A Media Ledger
DVD, Database and the Bayonet: Auditing the 9...a5 'Antidote' Marketing
Sword of Damocles: A One-Hour Scandinavian Course and Bangladesh's Lost Tempo
Petroff in 60 Minutes or Scandinavian? The Hole in a Chess Course's AdvertisingThe title says: "The Petroff Defence – Fight for More Than Equality by GM...
The Bigger Warning Behind Chess News: Information Gaps and the Crisis of VerificationThe Analysis Stopped Before the First Move: A Warning About Missing Chess...
A Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Advertisement: The WFCC Grand Prix Final Story That Carries No NewsHow the headline was built The headline that circulated recently in chess new...
WFCC Grand Prix Final in Fujairah: An Announcement Without Names, a Sports Report Wrapped in PromotionFujairah, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, is set to ho...
The Headline Announces a FIDE Decision; the Body Sells a 60-Minute Opening Video — A Media LedgerAround eleven at night last Wednesday, in my Mumbai flat, I clicked a headlin...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Postal Key: The Product Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225Before the September issue opens, a piece of paper arrives. ChessBase Magazin...
Eleven Days, Seventy-Seven Teams, Zero Games: What the Prison Chess Report Left UnwrittenEleven days, from 13 to 23 May 2026. Seventy-seven teams across five continen...
A Fourth Crown in the Tiebreak, and the Board That Never Made the HeadlineIn May 2026 I sat in a university residence hall watching an online rapid...
No Ledger Behind the ‘Perfect’ Score, and the Scotch’s Dates Do Not Add UpA report on the European Club Cup landed on my desk. The headline says Novy B...
Carlsen Has Changed His Preparation Model; the Chess World Is Still Reading the HeadlineOn the twenty-first of October, in Madrid, Magnus Carlsen told Spain's AS...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, a Mislabelled Interview, and the Ledger Nobody ReconciledThe headline arrived in a single line: “From quitting chess to becoming a...
Empty Board, Full Attention: The Analysis With No MovesThe file reached my desk in the evening, exactly when I open the notebook....
The Question Mark After 3.Bc4: An Eleven-Year-Old on Board One and the Arithmetic of Producing Prodigies"Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 — seriously?" I read the headline expecting ...
Main Decisions of the FIDE General Assembly 2026: Commercial Confusion in Chess ContentI was sitting in the Paltan press club, leafing through old BCF documents, wh...
DVD, Database and the Bayonet: Auditing the 9...a5 'Antidote' MarketingTwo in the morning. A club player's laptop in Dhaka sits open on a database,...
Sword of Damocles: A One-Hour Scandinavian Course and Bangladesh's Lost TempoAt half past midnight a colleague from the coaching staff sent a link. Thirte...
Savitha Shri's 7/7, Her Father's 3 Years: The Ledger Nobody Is Balancing on the Samarkand BoardIn the same five-hour round in Samarkand on Thursday, two boards told two...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Course Body: Anatomising a Chess Content MismatchAround one in the morning last week I was scrolling a chess news feed. Sit at...
The Bigger Warning Behind Chess News: Information Gaps and the Crisis of VerificationThe Analysis Stopped Before the First Move: A Warning About Missing Chess...
A Fujairah Headline, a ChessBase Advertisement: The WFCC Grand Prix Final Story That Carries No NewsHow the headline was built The headline that circulated recently in chess new...
WFCC Grand Prix Final in Fujairah: An Announcement Without Names, a Sports Report Wrapped in PromotionFujairah, one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, is set to ho...
The Headline Announces a FIDE Decision; the Body Sells a 60-Minute Opening Video — A Media LedgerAround eleven at night last Wednesday, in my Mumbai flat, I clicked a headlin...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Postal Key: The Product Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225Before the September issue opens, a piece of paper arrives. ChessBase Magazin...
Eleven Days, Seventy-Seven Teams, Zero Games: What the Prison Chess Report Left UnwrittenEleven days, from 13 to 23 May 2026. Seventy-seven teams across five continen...
A Fourth Crown in the Tiebreak, and the Board That Never Made the HeadlineIn May 2026 I sat in a university residence hall watching an online rapid...
No Ledger Behind the ‘Perfect’ Score, and the Scotch’s Dates Do Not Add UpA report on the European Club Cup landed on my desk. The headline says Novy B...
Carlsen Has Changed His Preparation Model; the Chess World Is Still Reading the HeadlineOn the twenty-first of October, in Madrid, Magnus Carlsen told Spain's AS...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, a Mislabelled Interview, and the Ledger Nobody ReconciledThe headline arrived in a single line: “From quitting chess to becoming a...
Empty Board, Full Attention: The Analysis With No MovesThe file reached my desk in the evening, exactly when I open the notebook....
The Question Mark After 3.Bc4: An Eleven-Year-Old on Board One and the Arithmetic of Producing Prodigies"Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 — seriously?" I read the headline expecting ...
Main Decisions of the FIDE General Assembly 2026: Commercial Confusion in Chess ContentI was sitting in the Paltan press club, leafing through old BCF documents, wh...
DVD, Database and the Bayonet: Auditing the 9...a5 'Antidote' MarketingTwo in the morning. A club player's laptop in Dhaka sits open on a database,...
Sword of Damocles: A One-Hour Scandinavian Course and Bangladesh's Lost TempoAt half past midnight a colleague from the coaching staff sent a link. Thirte...
Savitha Shri's 7/7, Her Father's 3 Years: The Ledger Nobody Is Balancing on the Samarkand BoardIn the same five-hour round in Samarkand on Thursday, two boards told two...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Course Body: Anatomising a Chess Content MismatchAround one in the morning last week I was scrolling a chess news feed. Sit at...