Chess
Superstition in the Headline, a Pawn Push on the Board — Auditing the Italian Game's 5.e5 Line
Is Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? 44 Games, 13 Winning Positions, and the Quiet Ledger of the Eval Bar
The Silence of 27 Miniatures: Where Samarkand's Board Vanishes in ChessBase Magazine #225
ChessBase Magazine #225 and Bangladesh's Chess Ledger: The Arithmetic Behind One Wrong Headline
Sasikiran Wins Bavarian Championship on Tiebreak as FRITZ 20 Sparks Debate Over the Future of Chess TrainingIndian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran won the 29th Open International Bavaria...
Eight Names, One Score, and Twenty-Seven Miniatures: How a Samarkand Round-Four Table Became a Product ListingEight names. One score. When the standings appeared after Round Four in...
Pendik and Monte-Carlo's Crown, and the Uncounted Board-Hours of Club ChessTwo club names in a headline, no scorecard. Bayegan Pendik and Monte-Carlo —...
The 115 Points of Budva: Bayegan's All-Star Squad and the Arithmetic of Six Boards11:40 pm, Mumbai. The live board for Budva is open on my laptop. Conditions l...
Sixty Minutes of the Elephant Gambit: News in the Headline, Advertising in the BodyI read the headline twice. Woodward has taken down Caruana. Lee is widening h...
The Scotch's Return: From Kasparov's 2026 Board to a 60-Minute LessonLast week a headline landed on my desk: "Young British Prodigies." News about...
Superstition in the Headline, a Pawn Push on the Board — Auditing the Italian Game's 5.e5 LineThe file reached my desk carrying a headline — the strange comforts of...
Beating the Sicilian with 3.Bc4 — Seriously? An 11-Year-Old on Board One, and a Missing MiddleThe score sheet carried two numbers: 6/7, and a performance rating of 2504....
Is Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? 44 Games, 13 Winning Positions, and the Quiet Ledger of the Eval BarIs Chess Really 'Inexpressive'? 44 Games, 13 Winning Positions, and the Quiet...
From SCHACH to CHESS INSIGHT: A New English Birth for Chess Media Geography, and the Four-Hundred-Thousand-Dollar Board in Saint LouisA worn issue of the German chess magazine SCHACH lies on my desk in Khulna —...
The Scotch Ledger and Keymer's Name: A Content-Attribution InvestigationThe headline promised Vincent Keymer. Relaxed, light-hearted, funny. I opened...
The File That Had No Samarkand: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of a ClaimTen minutes past two in the morning in a Bangalore flat. I open a file that h...
Samarkand R8: Germany's Shock, Uzbekistan's Fall — and the Scandinavian Defense's 60 MinutesThis article analyzes the Samarkand Round 8 chess result where Germany stunne...
The Headline Buys One Thing, the Body Sells Another: A Data Audit of Samarkand Round 8Samarkand's eighth round fits into a single line: Germany beat Uzbekistan and...
A Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Course's Body: Auditing a Chess Feed ErrorLate in August a line entered my ledger — Samarkand, round eight, Germany bea...
The Silence of 27 Miniatures: Where Samarkand's Board Vanishes in ChessBase Magazine #225Twenty-seven. The room is small, but cold. When I open the ChessBase Magazine...
Savitha Shri: The 7/7 Is Real, but the Ledger Records a Three-Year Savings Runway and a Reserve BoardSamarkand, Thursday, the fifth hour of the round. Three scoreboards were open...
ChessBase Magazine #225 and Bangladesh's Chess Ledger: The Arithmetic Behind One Wrong HeadlineA Wrong Headline, An Honest Ledger The headline said Samarkand, round eight,...
Samarkand's Headline and the Scandinavian DVD: Where Chess's Information Seam Has FrayedLast night in Delhi I stayed up late. That is the transfer-window habit — sle...
The Drawn Board: Savitha Shri's 7/7, a Father's Career Gamble, and the Ledger Line Nobody ReadsFive Hours in the Hall The chess clock in the Samarkand tournament hall never...
Savitha Shri: A Reserve Board's 7/7, a Five-Hour Clock, and a Father's Exhausted SavingsThe clock beside the board was closing on five hours, and the scoresheet said...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: The Accounting Behind the Hero Story at Samarkand's Reserve BoardTitle: Savitha Shri's 7/7 — The Accounting Behind the Hero Story at Samarkand...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Training Economy Beneath a Mislabeled HeadlineThe headline was about Samarkand. Round eight, a women's team event, China...
Seven From Seven, and a Budget That Lasted Under Three Years: Reading Savitha Shri's Samarkand FileThe clock in the Samarkand hall had just crossed five hours. On board five of...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Advertising Claims and the Missing Receipts of the Scandinavian DefenseSixty minutes. That is the entire lifespan of an instructional video. The sal...