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Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: Auditing One Chess Story2026-09-26At 2:07 a.m. a wire headline surfaced on my laptop in Mumbai: “Samarkand, Rou...
The Fifth Name: A 7/7 That Rose From the Last Line of the Team Sheet2026-09-26On the Samarkand team sheet there are five names. The first four generate the...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a Mismatch2026-09-26The clock on my desk in Dublin read 2:11 a.m. I was scrolling the online ches...
A Samarkand Round-8 Headline With a 60-Minute Opening Course in the Body2026-09-26Last Wednesday morning a line surfaced in my feed. The headline read:...
A Samarkand Round-8 Headline With a 60-Minute Opening Course in the BodyLast Wednesday morning a line surfaced in my feed. The headline read:...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Halo, and the Arithmetic of Board LoadThe timer on the screen stopped at 59 minutes and 48 seconds. One opening...
The ‘Sword of Damocles’ of the Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course, a Magnus Carlsen Name, and the Nuances Left Out of the Ledger“I began tagging goals, and the goals began to sort themselves.” Tagging all...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: Auditing One Chess StoryAt 2:07 a.m. a wire headline surfaced on my laptop in Mumbai: “Samarkand, Rou...
The Fifth Name: A 7/7 That Rose From the Last Line of the Team SheetOn the Samarkand team sheet there are five names. The first four generate the...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Package: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Ledger of ChessPenang, half past eleven at night. The balcony smelled of coming rain, and th...
Seven Out of Seven: Savitha Shri's Board, and a Ten-Year Budget That Ran Out in ThreeThe scoreboard says seven. Seven games were played — a hundred percent. A...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a MismatchThe clock on my desk in Dublin read 2:11 a.m. I was scrolling the online ches...
A Sixty-Minute Defense: Carlsen's Name on the Cover, and the Gap in the LedgerSixty minutes. One video, one opening, and one sentence — "Magnus Carlsen has...
Seven Openings, Six Videos: The Anti-Queen's Gambit Economy at Club Level and the Hidden Trap in Defensive RepertoiresIn my Mymensingh bedroom, tagging games from the 2026 National Championship,...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Halo, and the Arithmetic of Board LoadThe timer on the screen stopped at 59 minutes and 48 seconds. One opening...
The ‘Sword of Damocles’ of the Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course, a Magnus Carlsen Name, and the Nuances Left Out of the Ledger“I began tagging goals, and the goals began to sort themselves.” Tagging all...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: Auditing One Chess StoryAt 2:07 a.m. a wire headline surfaced on my laptop in Mumbai: “Samarkand, Rou...
The Fifth Name: A 7/7 That Rose From the Last Line of the Team SheetOn the Samarkand team sheet there are five names. The first four generate the...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Package: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Ledger of ChessPenang, half past eleven at night. The balcony smelled of coming rain, and th...
Seven Out of Seven: Savitha Shri's Board, and a Ten-Year Budget That Ran Out in ThreeThe scoreboard says seven. Seven games were played — a hundred percent. A...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a MismatchThe clock on my desk in Dublin read 2:11 a.m. I was scrolling the online ches...
A Sixty-Minute Defense: Carlsen's Name on the Cover, and the Gap in the LedgerSixty minutes. One video, one opening, and one sentence — "Magnus Carlsen has...
Seven Openings, Six Videos: The Anti-Queen's Gambit Economy at Club Level and the Hidden Trap in Defensive RepertoiresIn my Mymensingh bedroom, tagging games from the 2026 National Championship,...