Chess
Samarkand Round Seven: One Headline, Ten Advertisements, and the Boards Nobody Recorded
Samarkand's Eight-Way Knot and 27 Miniatures: Who Pays the Physical Bill for Opening Preparation?
An Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Real Price of Preparation in Chess's Information Market
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw and Lead by a Single Match Point — and the Advertisement Hidden Beneath the Headline
Samarkand Round Seven: One Headline, Ten Advertisements, and the Boards Nobody RecordedA headline. Beneath it, three facts — all three about chess. The headline say...
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw and Lead by a Single Match Point — and the Advertisement Hidden Beneath the HeadlineAt a tea stall in Purana Paltan I opened the phone and the first thing that...
Samarkand's Headline, a DVD's Body: The Chess Story That Forgets Its Own NameSamarkand, round seven. Eleven at night in Saint Petersburg, mist hanging on...
Samarkand Round 7: One Match Point, and an Advertisement Wearing a HeadlineIt was nearly two in the morning in Saint Petersburg. I had opened a page...
The 'Antidote' 9...a5 and the Stale Engine Myth: From a Samarkand Headline to the Bayonet AttackThree in the morning, Mymensingh. Load-shedding outside, a secondhand laptop...
9...a5: The Move That Escapes Memory, but Not the EngineIt was 3:10 a.m. in a Mymensingh bedroom. The fan turned slowly overhead,...
Thirty Minutes in Hand: Nihal's Board, the Trap of Team Scoring, and the Moves Nobody Wrote Down"He had time... he had time!" That is Vidit Gujrathi's voice, live in the...
Samarkand's Eight-Way Knot and 27 Miniatures: Who Pays the Physical Bill for Opening Preparation?Hook: What the Table Shows, What the Body Does Eight players. Four rounds....
30 Minutes, Three Moves, One Board: Where India's Team Crown Loosened at the Chess OlympiadI begin an article with a number, not a verdict. The first figure that landed...
An Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Real Price of Preparation in Chess's Information MarketEight names at the top of the table after four rounds. Not one, not two — eig...
Poland Again Prove to Be the Achilles Heel of India's Women's Team: A Data-Led Analysis of Round 5Hook: There is no body beyond the headline. Only one line arrived: ‘Poland...
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw and Lead by a Single Match Point — and the Advertisement Hidden Beneath the HeadlineAt a tea stall in Purana Paltan I opened the phone and the first thing that...
Samarkand's Headline, a DVD's Body: The Chess Story That Forgets Its Own NameSamarkand, round seven. Eleven at night in Saint Petersburg, mist hanging on...
Samarkand Round 7: One Match Point, and an Advertisement Wearing a HeadlineIt was nearly two in the morning in Saint Petersburg. I had opened a page...
The 'Antidote' 9...a5 and the Stale Engine Myth: From a Samarkand Headline to the Bayonet AttackThree in the morning, Mymensingh. Load-shedding outside, a secondhand laptop...
9...a5: The Move That Escapes Memory, but Not the EngineIt was 3:10 a.m. in a Mymensingh bedroom. The fan turned slowly overhead,...
Thirty Minutes in Hand: Nihal's Board, the Trap of Team Scoring, and the Moves Nobody Wrote Down"He had time... he had time!" That is Vidit Gujrathi's voice, live in the...
Samarkand's Eight-Way Knot and 27 Miniatures: Who Pays the Physical Bill for Opening Preparation?Hook: What the Table Shows, What the Body Does Eight players. Four rounds....
30 Minutes, Three Moves, One Board: Where India's Team Crown Loosened at the Chess OlympiadI begin an article with a number, not a verdict. The first figure that landed...
An Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand and ChessBase Magazine #225: The Real Price of Preparation in Chess's Information MarketEight names at the top of the table after four rounds. Not one, not two — eig...
Poland Again Prove to Be the Achilles Heel of India's Women's Team: A Data-Led Analysis of Round 5Hook: There is no body beyond the headline. Only one line arrived: ‘Poland...