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ChessBase Magazine #225: Samarkand on the Label, Prague on the Page — A New Ledger for the Chess-Content Market
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess Training
The Move List Nobody Could Find: An Olympiad King Walk, Sveshnikov's Line, and a Weapon Sold to Club Players
5.e5!: The Club Board's Cheapest Weapon, and Its Most Expensive Gap
The Move List Nobody Could Find: An Olympiad King Walk, Sveshnikov's Line, and a Weapon Sold to Club PlayersChennai, August 2026. Two in the morning in the press centre of the 44th Ches...
5.e5!: The Club Board's Cheapest Weapon, and Its Most Expensive GapTwo twenty-five in the morning. In a bedroom in Mymensingh, a decade-old lapt...
The Weight of Move Five: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap, the Club Weapon of the Modern Italian, and a Certificate of SilenceThe fifth move arrives almost silently. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4...
Samarkand, Round 9: Gukesh's Five Hours, and the Single Leg India's Gold Run Stands OnHook The clock in the Samarkand playing hall had stopped half an hour earlier...
27 Miniatures in Tablet Light: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Chess's Unwritten Physical LedgerLate at night I sat down with the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225. T...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Wrong Headline: The Body-Physiology of ChessBase Magazine #22527 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Wrong Headline: The Body-Physiolog...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Samarkand on the Label, Prague on the Page — A New Ledger for the Chess-Content MarketPenang, one in the morning. Rain outside on the balcony, blue laptop light...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess TrainingA Headline From Samarkand, a Body From Prague The headline spoke of round...
Samarkand on the Label, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of the Chess Training MarketLate last week I was building a tag sheet for round eight of the Samarkand...