Chess
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, Two Points Ahead: How Three Moves Broke India's Title Defence
Savitha's 5/5 Is Real, but India's Olympiad Maths Is Being Solved at Board Four
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Headline With Not a Single Player Named
A Samarkand R7 Headline, a King's Indian Bayonet File: A Source-Integrity Autopsy
A Samarkand Headline, a Back-Cover Board: The Information Gap in the Chess Theory Market
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Headline With Not a Single Player NamedA headline has circulated out of Samarkand after Round 7 of the women's team...
A Samarkand R7 Headline, a King's Indian Bayonet File: A Source-Integrity AutopsyI opened a news digest last week and did what no ordinary sports reader would...
A Samarkand Headline, a Back-Cover Board: The Information Gap in the Chess Theory MarketThe headline says it — Samarkand, Round 7 (Open): Uzbekistan continue...
A Samarkand Headline and a King's Indian Box: Noise, Signal and One Quiet Claim in the Chess Preparation MarketOn a cold February evening in my Delhi flat I opened a headline. It said...
Samarkand R7: Chess in the Headline, Advertising in the Body — Auditing an Information FailureI opened a page looking for board results from Round 7. A pen in hand, an ope...
Three Moves, Thirty Minutes, One Olympiad Match: The Ledger of Nihal's CollapseThirty minutes. Board three. Roughly +2 on the board. The clock still showed...
The Scotch's Monument and the Advertisement Gap: Mikhalchishin's Video, Kasparov's 2026, and the Ledger of Verification1. The Opening Scene: A Report With No Moves in It At a quarter to three in t...
Two Clocks, One Empty Board: What Samarkand Never Played, and How Chess Kept the LedgerIn Samarkand's sixth round, two boards were set up. Israel against the...
Samarkand's Eight-Way Tie and 27 Miniatures: Two Halves of One SentenceSamarkand's Eight-Way Tie and 27 Miniatures: Two Halves of One Sentence After...
A Samarkand Label, a Scotch Video: What One Mislabelled Piece Reveals About Defensive PreparationI opened the file in a Mymensingh bedroom, in the thin light of a winter...
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, Two Points Ahead: How Three Moves Broke India's Title DefenceThirty Minutes on the Clock, and a Hand That Hesitated On the live commentary...
Marketing the Scotch: In Search of a Phantom Named Egon MattaaqWhen a headline and a body stop recognizing each other, a reporter's first jo...
The Scotch Was Never Afraid: A Sales Page, a Phantom Name, and the Price of Chess KnowledgeOn my desk in Khulna there is an A4 printout still held down with a pin, a...
Savitha's 5/5 Is Real, but India's Olympiad Maths Is Being Solved at Board FourHook — An Untidy Scoresheet Round six still does not stack up cleanly for me....
An Empty Column Testifies: 41 National Championships, the 19-Point ACPL Gap and Bangladesh Chess's Incomplete LedgerThe last week of November 2026. A second-hand scanner on my desk in Mumbai, a...
Chess Olympiad: India's Spine Now Sits at Boards Four and Five, and the Number My Ledger Still Cannot WriteHook: The Scoresheet That Held Me for Three Minutes On a Sunday night in Mumb...