Chess
King's Indian 9...a5: A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Blurb, and the Gap Where the Information Should Be
An Achilles Heel Without a Scoreline: The Real Arithmetic Behind India vs Poland in Round 5 of the Chess Olympiad
Thirty Minutes Left, Two Points Up: The Three Moves That Broke What Should Not Have Broken
The Empty File and the Full Ledger: The Chess Record Nobody Kept
A Samarkand Headline, a King's Indian DVD: Auditing a Source Mismatch
A Bayonet Attack Antidote, a Samarkand Headline, and an Old Claim Reckoned in the NNUE Era
A Samarkand Headline, a King's Indian DVD: Auditing a Source MismatchThe headline stops the hand. “Samarkand R7 (open): Uzbekistan continue...
A Bayonet Attack Antidote, a Samarkand Headline, and an Old Claim Reckoned in the NNUE EraThe coffee was going cold in my Saint Petersburg kitchen when I opened the...
The 9...a5 Antidote, the NNUE Shadow, and the Gap in a HeadlineAt half past three in the morning, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, a board sits...
King's Indian 9...a5: A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Blurb, and the Gap Where the Information Should BeLate at night in my Mymensingh room I had the engine open and the back cover ...
Samarkand Round 7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Gap and a Missing Score-SheetThe standings page loaded at six in the morning in Mymensingh, and the first...
An Achilles Heel Without a Scoreline: The Real Arithmetic Behind India vs Poland in Round 5 of the Chess OlympiadAt two in the morning I opened the file. Round 5, India's women, Poland. The...
“The Right King Road”: A Black Counter-Map in the Age of System OpeningsAt club tournaments, the most familiar frustration: after 1.d4 d5, Black brac...
Thirty Minutes Left, Two Points Up: The Three Moves That Broke What Should Not Have BrokenThere were still thirty minutes on the clock. The evaluation showed a lead of...
The Empty File and the Full Ledger: The Chess Record Nobody KeptFour sheets. On the top line, where a headline should sit, the file says: no...
Samarkand in the Title, Scotch in the Body: How a 60-Minute Video Borrows the 2026 World ChampionshipLast night the file I opened carried the headline “Samarkand Round 6 (open):...
A Victory Broken in Three Moves: Nihal, Team Scoring, and an Incomplete RecordThe boy sitting at board three had the win almost within reach. His position...