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The FIDE Presidency Claim and the Najdorf Update: Two Different Stories Inside One Article
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh Climbs Out of a Lost Position, and Where India's Gold Race Actually Cracks
A Samarkand Headline and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Page That Wore a News Masthead
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian: The Price of a Tempo and the Weight of a Promise
The Ledger of 5.e5: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap, the Modern Italian, and the Unequal Budget of Preparation
The Ledger of 5.e5: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap, the Modern Italian, and the Unequal Budget of PreparationThe Ledger of 5.e5: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap, the Modern Italian, and the...
The FIDE Presidency Claim and the Najdorf Update: Two Different Stories Inside One ArticleThe article examines a single chess news item that contains two contradictory...
Behind a Najdorf Update, a Headline: The FIDE Claim, the Evidence Gap and Five Moves in Sixty MinutesThe file opened on a headline, and the headline landed like a cold hand on th...
Auditing 5.e5: The Sharp Italian Branch and the Evidence GapHook A page from a notebook dated 2026 still comes back to me. In a six-hour...
A World Champion on Board Four: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape in Samarkand and the Ledger of India's Single-Point DependenceA world champion sat at the fourth board in the Samarkand hall. That was the...
5.e5!: The Sharp Italian Branch and the Question of an Accounting Built on One GameOn a 64-square board, what is the price of one move? 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh Climbs Out of a Lost Position, and Where India's Gold Race Actually CracksFive hours. A lost position on the board. Then, fifty-four moves later, the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and an Empty BoardSeven-ten in the morning. Rain on the balcony in Mumbai, the coffee going col...
An Envelope, a Key, and an Open Ledger: From Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures to Dhaka's Unopened FolderJuly, 2026. An envelope arrived at the house in Chittaranjan Park, Delhi — a...
A Samarkand Headline and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Page That Wore a News MastheadA Samarkand Headline and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Page That Wore a Ne...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian: The Price of a Tempo and the Weight of a PromiseSixty minutes. That is the entire runtime of a training video, and inside it ...
The FIDE Presidency Claim and the Najdorf Update: Two Different Stories Inside One ArticleThe article examines a single chess news item that contains two contradictory...
Behind a Najdorf Update, a Headline: The FIDE Claim, the Evidence Gap and Five Moves in Sixty MinutesThe file opened on a headline, and the headline landed like a cold hand on th...
Auditing 5.e5: The Sharp Italian Branch and the Evidence GapHook A page from a notebook dated 2026 still comes back to me. In a six-hour...
A World Champion on Board Four: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape in Samarkand and the Ledger of India's Single-Point DependenceA world champion sat at the fourth board in the Samarkand hall. That was the...
5.e5!: The Sharp Italian Branch and the Question of an Accounting Built on One GameOn a 64-square board, what is the price of one move? 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh Climbs Out of a Lost Position, and Where India's Gold Race Actually CracksFive hours. A lost position on the board. Then, fifty-four moves later, the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and an Empty BoardSeven-ten in the morning. Rain on the balcony in Mumbai, the coffee going col...
An Envelope, a Key, and an Open Ledger: From Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures to Dhaka's Unopened FolderJuly, 2026. An envelope arrived at the house in Chittaranjan Park, Delhi — a...
A Samarkand Headline and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Page That Wore a News MastheadA Samarkand Headline and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Page That Wore a Ne...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian: The Price of a Tempo and the Weight of a PromiseSixty minutes. That is the entire runtime of a training video, and inside it ...