Chess
Lesson #740 and the Empty Steel Cupboard: India's Chess Content Factory and Our Coffee Ring
FIDE in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Full Audit of One Chess Source
54 Moves, 5 Hours, 2.5-1.5: India's Single-Point Ledger in Samarkand
Samarkand Round 9: A 54-Move Resurrection, and India's Gold Debt Rests on One Shoulder
A Headline Without a Board: ChessBase #225, Prague 2026, and the Chain of Verification
Lesson #740 and the Empty Steel Cupboard: India's Chess Content Factory and Our Coffee RingThe steel cupboard in the corner of the Purana Paltan chess hall still stands...
FIDE in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Full Audit of One Chess SourceThe headline asserted that Timur Turlov had been elected President of FIDE....
54 Moves, 5 Hours, 2.5-1.5: India's Single-Point Ledger in SamarkandThe clock in the Samarkand playing hall had gone past five hours. On board on...
Samarkand Round 9: A 54-Move Resurrection, and India's Gold Debt Rests on One ShoulderFor more than five hours D Gukesh sat in a lost position. Then, inside...
A Headline Without a Board: ChessBase #225, Prague 2026, and the Chain of VerificationTwo lines sat side by side on my laptop screen. The top line said that after...
Sword of Damocles: What a One-Hour Scandinavian Defense Course Contains, and What It Does NotHook — Three Queen Moves in Eight The queen moved three times in the first...
The Headline That Was Never a Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Samarkand Shadow, and the Economy of Chess Training MaterialThe Headline That Was Never a Board Last night, on a laptop screen in a...
The Sword of Damocles: You Can Buy the Opening in Sixty Minutes, Never the TempoThirteen bullet points. A sixty-minute video. One presenter. One opening. And...
Seven Wins, Three Years of Savings: Savitha Shri's Scoreboard and the Real Ledger of Chess DevelopmentThe round in Samarkand ran almost five hours, and it produced two results sid...
The Sword of Damocles: What You Actually Buy in a 60-Minute Scandinavian CourseTwo in the morning in a Dublin flat. Dhaka is five hours ahead of me, so it i...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: The Fifth Board, a Family Ledger, and Chess's Quiet EconomicsThe fifth board barely reaches the camera. On Thursday's round my laptop had...
The Headline Said Samarkand, the File Opened on Prague — Metadata Gaps in Chess Information FlowPart 1 — Hook The headline was one line long: Samarkand, women's team event,...
FIDE in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Full Audit of One Chess SourceThe headline asserted that Timur Turlov had been elected President of FIDE....
54 Moves, 5 Hours, 2.5-1.5: India's Single-Point Ledger in SamarkandThe clock in the Samarkand playing hall had gone past five hours. On board on...
Samarkand Round 9: A 54-Move Resurrection, and India's Gold Debt Rests on One ShoulderFor more than five hours D Gukesh sat in a lost position. Then, inside...
A Headline Without a Board: ChessBase #225, Prague 2026, and the Chain of VerificationTwo lines sat side by side on my laptop screen. The top line said that after...
Sword of Damocles: What a One-Hour Scandinavian Defense Course Contains, and What It Does NotHook — Three Queen Moves in Eight The queen moved three times in the first...
The Headline That Was Never a Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Samarkand Shadow, and the Economy of Chess Training MaterialThe Headline That Was Never a Board Last night, on a laptop screen in a...
The Sword of Damocles: You Can Buy the Opening in Sixty Minutes, Never the TempoThirteen bullet points. A sixty-minute video. One presenter. One opening. And...
Seven Wins, Three Years of Savings: Savitha Shri's Scoreboard and the Real Ledger of Chess DevelopmentThe round in Samarkand ran almost five hours, and it produced two results sid...
The Sword of Damocles: What You Actually Buy in a 60-Minute Scandinavian CourseTwo in the morning in a Dublin flat. Dhaka is five hours ahead of me, so it i...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: The Fifth Board, a Family Ledger, and Chess's Quiet EconomicsThe fifth board barely reaches the camera. On Thursday's round my laptop had...
The Headline Said Samarkand, the File Opened on Prague — Metadata Gaps in Chess Information FlowPart 1 — Hook The headline was one line long: Samarkand, women's team event,...