Chess
From Prague 2026 to a Bedroom Screen: The Chess Training Market, a Cover, and One Wrong Headline
The Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Tissue's Last Testimony
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Lesson of a Metadata Error
A Reserve Board's 7/7 — and Savings Gone in Three Years: Where India's Real Samarkand Story Sits
The 5.e5 Strike: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap, a Club Weapon, and the Empty Cupboard of Purana Paltan
An Annual Update to the Najdorf File, and the Silent Defect in a Headline
ChessThe 5.e5 Strike: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap, a Club Weapon, and the Empty Cupboard of Purana PaltanHook: A Coffee Ring and a Move at 2:40 a.m. The federation hall in Purana...
ChessAn Annual Update to the Najdorf File, and the Silent Defect in a HeadlineAn Annual Update to the Najdorf File, and the Silent Defect in a Headline One...
ChessBoard Four in Samarkand: Gukesh's 54 Moves and the Fragile Arithmetic of India's GoldThe world champion was sitting at board four. Beside him sat three young...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Verifiable Moves: ChessBase #225 and Samarkand's Invisible ScoreboardTwo numbers sat side by side in my ledger that week. One was twenty-seven, th...
ChessFrom Prague 2026 to a Bedroom Screen: The Chess Training Market, a Cover, and One Wrong HeadlineIt was ten past three in the morning. The second-hand laptop in my Mymensingh...
ChessSixty Minutes of Defence: The Scandinavian Defence Advertised, and Its Real Price at the Tea TableHook — A Rain-Soaked Evening, Two Tables, and One Buzzing Phone Weld Quay,...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Tissue's Last TestimonyA sealed page from my notebook, April 2026. In the chess hall at Paltan I had...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Lesson of a Metadata ErrorI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The file that reached...
ChessSeven Wins from Seven, and a Savings Account That Ran Out in Three Years: Savitha Shri's Samarkand LedgerSeven games. Seven wins. Zero draws. At the Samarkand Olympiad, a Thursday...
ChessSavitha Shri: What Emerges When You Weigh the 7/7 Hero Story on a LedgerBoard set: five hours, one draw, and a broken budget A living room in Chennai...
ChessA Reserve Board's 7/7 — and Savings Gone in Three Years: Where India's Real Samarkand Story SitsSamarkand, Thursday. The round ran almost five hours. On India's reserve boar...
ChessOne in Thirteen: The Samarkand Result, Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian, and a Missing SourceLast week a headline landed in my feed: "Samarkand R8 (open): Germany stun...
ChessThe Reserve Board and the Exhausted Savings: The Reckoning India Cannot Balance at SamarkandSamarkand, the hall. Eleven in the morning, a cold cup of tea, someone openin...
ChessAn Annual Update to the Najdorf File, and the Silent Defect in a HeadlineAn Annual Update to the Najdorf File, and the Silent Defect in a Headline One...
ChessBoard Four in Samarkand: Gukesh's 54 Moves and the Fragile Arithmetic of India's GoldThe world champion was sitting at board four. Beside him sat three young...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures, Zero Verifiable Moves: ChessBase #225 and Samarkand's Invisible ScoreboardTwo numbers sat side by side in my ledger that week. One was twenty-seven, th...
ChessFrom Prague 2026 to a Bedroom Screen: The Chess Training Market, a Cover, and One Wrong HeadlineIt was ten past three in the morning. The second-hand laptop in my Mymensingh...
ChessSixty Minutes of Defence: The Scandinavian Defence Advertised, and Its Real Price at the Tea TableHook — A Rain-Soaked Evening, Two Tables, and One Buzzing Phone Weld Quay,...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Tissue's Last TestimonyA sealed page from my notebook, April 2026. In the chess hall at Paltan I had...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Lesson of a Metadata ErrorI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The file that reached...
ChessSeven Wins from Seven, and a Savings Account That Ran Out in Three Years: Savitha Shri's Samarkand LedgerSeven games. Seven wins. Zero draws. At the Samarkand Olympiad, a Thursday...
ChessSavitha Shri: What Emerges When You Weigh the 7/7 Hero Story on a LedgerBoard set: five hours, one draw, and a broken budget A living room in Chennai...
ChessA Reserve Board's 7/7 — and Savings Gone in Three Years: Where India's Real Samarkand Story SitsSamarkand, Thursday. The round ran almost five hours. On India's reserve boar...
ChessOne in Thirteen: The Samarkand Result, Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian, and a Missing SourceLast week a headline landed in my feed: "Samarkand R8 (open): Germany stun...
ChessThe Reserve Board and the Exhausted Savings: The Reckoning India Cannot Balance at SamarkandSamarkand, the hall. Eleven in the morning, a cold cup of tea, someone openin...