Chess
Samarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Board: The Ledger That Went Missing Between Two Documents
Samarkand R7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead, and the Price of Chess News
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, China Leads by One Match Point — and the Advertisement Sitting Inside That Headline
The Headline Announced a Samarkand Lead. The Body Was Selling a DVD.
Why 9...a5 Is No Longer an Antidote in the Engine Era: The Bayonet Attack, a Samarkand Headline, and the Ledger of a DVD
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Board: The Ledger That Went Missing Between Two DocumentsLast week, at two in the morning in Dublin, I opened my laptop. Dhaka was fiv...
ChessSamarkand R7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead, and the Price of Chess NewsThe number sitting on the scoreboard after Round 7 of the women's team chess...
ChessSamarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, China Leads by One Match Point — and the Advertisement Sitting Inside That HeadlineAt half past three in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom, I open an old lapt...
ChessThe Headline Announced a Samarkand Lead. The Body Was Selling a DVD.Moscow, 1:47 a.m. Cold tea, an open notebook. On screen, a file whose headlin...
ChessWhy 9...a5 Is No Longer an Antidote in the Engine Era: The Bayonet Attack, a Samarkand Headline, and the Ledger of a DVDNo Move Is Written on an Empty Chair It was 2:40 a.m. in Penang when a headli...
ChessThe World Champion on Board Four: India's Depth and What Dhaka's Ledger Never RecordedRead the fourth board on the score sheet and you have to pause. D Gukesh....
ChessWhy Poland Keeps Becoming India Women's Fortress: Round Five, the Fourth Board, and the Weight of One WordOne word in the headline carries almost the entire load: "again." The news...
ChessIndia's Women's Team on Poland's Board: Anatomy of an Achilles TacticPoland proved to be India's Achilles heel again in Round 5 of the Chess...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings: The Anti-System Repertoire and the Real Gap in Bangladeshi Club ChessIt was half past eleven at night. On a secondhand laptop in a bedroom in...
ChessThe Blockchain of Chess: Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand and the Opening Revolution of ChessBase Magazine #225The chessboard behaves like a blockchain: every legal move carries the imprin...
ChessSeven Openings, Six Videos: The Real Ledger of Black's Preparation Against 1.d4Seven openings, six videos. The quotient is 1.17. That is the first arithmeti...
ChessEmpty Boards, Running Clocks: The Round Where No Chess Was Played in SamarkandThree clocks glowed on my laptop screen, and not a single hand moved on the...
ChessThe Scotch Opening, a 2026 Receipt, and the Audit of a Mislabeled PageI open a listing at my Moscow desk. The headline reads: John Donaldson, new...
ChessThe Right King Road: A Plan-Based Black Repertoire Against Opponents Who Avoid 2.c4After 39 years of watching matches — from Dhaka's print-era reporting to...
ChessSamarkand R7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead, and the Price of Chess NewsThe number sitting on the scoreboard after Round 7 of the women's team chess...
ChessSamarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, China Leads by One Match Point — and the Advertisement Sitting Inside That HeadlineAt half past three in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom, I open an old lapt...
ChessThe Headline Announced a Samarkand Lead. The Body Was Selling a DVD.Moscow, 1:47 a.m. Cold tea, an open notebook. On screen, a file whose headlin...
ChessWhy 9...a5 Is No Longer an Antidote in the Engine Era: The Bayonet Attack, a Samarkand Headline, and the Ledger of a DVDNo Move Is Written on an Empty Chair It was 2:40 a.m. in Penang when a headli...
ChessThe World Champion on Board Four: India's Depth and What Dhaka's Ledger Never RecordedRead the fourth board on the score sheet and you have to pause. D Gukesh....
ChessWhy Poland Keeps Becoming India Women's Fortress: Round Five, the Fourth Board, and the Weight of One WordOne word in the headline carries almost the entire load: "again." The news...
ChessIndia's Women's Team on Poland's Board: Anatomy of an Achilles TacticPoland proved to be India's Achilles heel again in Round 5 of the Chess...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings: The Anti-System Repertoire and the Real Gap in Bangladeshi Club ChessIt was half past eleven at night. On a secondhand laptop in a bedroom in...
ChessThe Blockchain of Chess: Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand and the Opening Revolution of ChessBase Magazine #225The chessboard behaves like a blockchain: every legal move carries the imprin...
ChessSeven Openings, Six Videos: The Real Ledger of Black's Preparation Against 1.d4Seven openings, six videos. The quotient is 1.17. That is the first arithmeti...
ChessEmpty Boards, Running Clocks: The Round Where No Chess Was Played in SamarkandThree clocks glowed on my laptop screen, and not a single hand moved on the...
ChessThe Scotch Opening, a 2026 Receipt, and the Audit of a Mislabeled PageI open a listing at my Moscow desk. The headline reads: John Donaldson, new...
ChessThe Right King Road: A Plan-Based Black Repertoire Against Opponents Who Avoid 2.c4After 39 years of watching matches — from Dhaka's print-era reporting to...