Chess
Samarkand's 15/16, Prague's 27 Miniatures — And the Empty Square in Between
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: The Ledger of One Source Audit
The Ledger Missing Beside Seven Wins: Samarkand's Reserve Board and a Family's Three-Year Receipt
The File That Never Said Samarkand: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Price of Chess Explanation
The Headline That Counted No Votes: FIDE, the Najdorf, and a Ledger Missing Its Date
The Headline That Counted No Votes: FIDE, the Najdorf, and a Ledger Missing Its DateHook In a Bangalore flat at 2:47 a.m., two sentences lit up on the phone scre...
Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap: The Market Price of 5.e5! and the Empty Engine ColumnI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. Installment number 74...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, 3 Videos and One Wrong Headline: The Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225Empty stadiums taught me which noises were ever real. In August 2026, watchin...
The Folder Said Samarkand, Inside Was PragueHook It had not rained in Delhi that evening, yet the ceiling fan's shadow...
Samarkand's 15/16, Prague's 27 Miniatures — And the Empty Square in BetweenHook: Three in the Contents, Zero in the Title Three numbers sit like stone i...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and the Ledger Behind a Wrong HeadlineA September evening in Saint Petersburg. Rain against the window, a keyboard...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: The Ledger of One Source AuditThe first thing I did when the file opened was simple: split it into two...
The Headline Says Samarkand, the File Says Prague: Chess's Training Market and Dhaka's Empty HallThe file was named "Samarkand, Round 8, Women's Team, China 15/16." I opened ...
Samarkand on the label, Prague inside — who writes chess's memory?A file landed on my desk last week. The label read: “Samarkand, Round 8...
The Ledger Missing Beside Seven Wins: Samarkand's Reserve Board and a Family's Three-Year ReceiptSeven games. Seven wins. Zero draws. The scorecard of nineteen-year-old Savit...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Analysis, Training as Product, and the Unpaid Bill on Our Own BoardThe title promised Samarkand, round eight, the women's event, China leading...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and One Wrong Headline: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Says and What It Doesn'tThe headline made me put the cup down. It announced the eighth round in...
Samarkand Round 8: Germany's Upset, Uzbekistan's Pipeline, and Bangladesh's LedgerThe Round 8 result sheet from Samarkand reached my desk at eight in the...
The File That Never Said Samarkand: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Price of Chess ExplanationOn my desk that morning, two files lay side by side. One was headed Samarkand...
One Headline, Another Body: Samarkand Round 8 and the Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian DefenseAt 1:45 in the morning I was scrolling a feed, the tea in the cup already col...
Savitha Shri's Seven Wins and the Ledger That Ran Out in Three YearsWhen India swept both golds at the Budapest Olympiad in 2026, I was covering...