Chess
Savitha Shri's 7/7: One Reserve Board, One Exhausted Savings Account, and the Real Ledger of India's Chess Pipeline
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger Audit of a Metadata Mismatch
Samarkand R8: Headline Says Germany Stun Uzbekistan, Body Sells a Scandinavian Defense Course — the Chess 'News' That Is Actually an Ad
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Selling the Scandinavian Defense, and the Ledger We Keep
The Report That Never Reached Its Own Headline: Samarkand, China's 15/16, and the Reading Economy of ChessBase Magazine #225
The Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Name, and Bangladesh's Empty Board
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger Audit of a Metadata MismatchI keep two ledgers on my desk. One records headlines. The other records proof...
Samarkand R8: Headline Says Germany Stun Uzbekistan, Body Sells a Scandinavian Defense Course — the Chess 'News' That Is Actually an AdOn Monday night I was looking for the Round 8 results from Samarkand. A...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Selling the Scandinavian Defense, and the Ledger We KeepSitting in a hotel room in Bangalore last month, I was reading the blurb for ...
The Report That Never Reached Its Own Headline: Samarkand, China's 15/16, and the Reading Economy of ChessBase Magazine #225From a bedroom in Mymensingh, I opened a file that had two lives. At the top...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Name, and Bangladesh's Empty BoardSixty minutes. In September 2026, at the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi,...
The Queen on a5 and the Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and One Unverified Reference1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 — and the queen stopped on a5. Last Tuesday, 2:40...
Seven Wins and a Three-Year Runway: The Story Behind the Fifth Chair at SamarkandIn Samarkand the fifth chair spends most of the tournament folded against the...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: One Reserve Board, One Exhausted Savings Account, and the Real Ledger of India's Chess PipelineThe clock in the Samarkand hall has passed the fifth hour. The air is still;...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Receipt: The Ledger of Chess News in 27 MiniaturesI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. Early this month,...