Chess
The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Repertoire, and Bodhana's Name Sitting in the Headline
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, the Tempo Debt, and the Arithmetic of an Incomplete Repertoire
Seven Wins from a Reserve Board — and a Family's Nearly Spent Savings
The Headline That Stayed a Headline: Samarkand Round 8, a Scandinavian Course, and the Broken Ledger of Chess Information
Seven Wins at the Reserve Board, Three Years of a Father's Savings: How to Read the Samarkand 2026 Score-Sheet
Samarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: Auditing a Metadata Shortfall
Seven Wins from a Reserve Board — and a Family's Nearly Spent SavingsSamarkand, that Thursday round ran nearly five hours. At one table the bigges...
The Headline That Stayed a Headline: Samarkand Round 8, a Scandinavian Course, and the Broken Ledger of Chess InformationTwo in the morning. Rain on the window in Penang. A chess news feed open on t...
Seven Wins at the Reserve Board, Three Years of a Father's Savings: How to Read the Samarkand 2026 Score-SheetOn Thursday the clock had gone past five hours, and across two screens I was...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: Auditing a Metadata ShortfallThe first thing I logged after opening the file was not a number but an...
Sixty Minutes of Sword: The Scandinavian Defense Course, the Carlsen Halo, and the Real Arithmetic of Bangladesh's Club Player1. Hook It is 11:40 at night in Mymensingh. On the laptop screen a promo clip...
Samarkand Round 8 Versus a Sixty-Minute Video: The File Whose Headline and Body Were Not Playing the Same GameFiles arrive on my desk two ways. Some nobody wants — club score sheets,...
Samarkand's Empty Board, Prague's Twenty-Seven Miniatures: The Chess Story the Headline Promised But Never DeliveredTwo in the morning. The rain in Penang had stopped ten minutes earlier, but t...
Samarkand Headline, Scandinavian Advertisement: How a Broken Feed Turns Chess News Into ProductA printout is pinned to the wall above my desk in Khulna. The headline runs o...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Postal Booklets, Download Keys, and the Ledger of Bangladesh's PipelineA postal booklet with a download key inside. There is no cleaner snapshot of...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and an Open Ledger of PromisesThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian and an Open Ledger of...
The Elephant Gambit, a 60-Minute Repertoire, and Bodhana's Name Sitting in the HeadlineAt 1:40 in the morning in a Mumbai flat, I had fourteen browser tabs open. On...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, the Tempo Debt, and the Arithmetic of an Incomplete RepertoireThree moves. 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 — the black queen lands on a5, White's...