Chess
Seven Wins on a Reserve Board, and a Father's Broken Three-Year Sum
Seven Wins and a Three-Year Savings Account: The Ledger Nobody Read From Samarkand's Reserve Board
A Thirty-Minute Wrong Headline, a Six-Hour Real Load: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Uncounted Fatigue of the Training Industry
Savitha Shri: Seven Wins, a Father's Savings Gone in Three Years, and the Injury the Scoreboard Never Shows
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Contains, and What Our Ledger Does Not
A Thirty-Minute Wrong Headline, a Six-Hour Real Load: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Uncounted Fatigue of the Training IndustryTwo in the morning. I am in a Boston apartment, scanning a wire feed, and a...
Seven Wins on a Reserve Board, and a Father's Broken Three-Year SumThe Thursday round in Samarkand was scheduled for four hours. The hall clock...
Savitha Shri: Seven Wins, a Father's Savings Gone in Three Years, and the Injury the Scoreboard Never ShowsSamarkand, Thursday round. The clock is past four and a half hours and not on...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Contains, and What Our Ledger Does NotIt was nearly two in the morning at my desk in Dublin when I opened a file...
I Opened the File: Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Inside — An Accounting of Chess News in 2026The Tuesday File I opened the file on a Tuesday morning. The headline said:...
The Fifth Board in Samarkand: Seven Wins from Seven Games, and a Family's Three-Year LedgerTwo clocks were writing two different sentences in Samarkand on Thursday. On...
Seven Wins and a Three-Year Savings Account: The Ledger Nobody Read From Samarkand's Reserve BoardHook A Thursday hall in Samarkand. Two clocks, two games, near-identical...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Shadow, and the Ledger of Our Five Grandmasters1. One Move, Lifted From the Hall Last December, at a side table in the leagu...
The Elephant Gambit, a Sixty-Minute Repertoire, and a Name Missing From the PageIt was a quarter to midnight on a Thursday. The table lamp was on in my...
Behind the “Chess Is Something Magic” Headline: A Defensive Repertoire Sold Against Club-Level Structures1.d4 d5. White did not play 2.c4. It was a club-league game in Delhi last...