Chess
One Headline, Two Games: Samarkand Round 8 and a 60-Minute Scandinavian
The Sword of Damocles: You Don't Buy a Weapon in Sixty Minutes
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: A Ledger Entry for a Metadata Failure
The Sword's Shadow and a 60-Minute Course: Promise, Proof and the Market of the Scandinavian Defense
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and Savings Gone in Three Years: The Fifth-Board Ledger at the Samarkand Olympiad
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: You Don't Buy a Weapon in Sixty MinutesApril 2026. The Premier Division Chess League was running nine rounds across...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: A Ledger Entry for a Metadata FailureHook I opened the file at 1:40 a.m. The headline said: Samarkand, Round 8,...
ChessThe Sword's Shadow and a 60-Minute Course: Promise, Proof and the Market of the Scandinavian DefenseIn September 2026, the FIDE World Cup in Tbilisi was running a 128-player...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 and Savings Gone in Three Years: The Fifth-Board Ledger at the Samarkand OlympiadThe scoreboard outside the Samarkand playing hall on Thursday evening told tw...
ChessA Samarkand Headline Wrapped Around a Scandinavian Course: Auditing a Chess Feed ErrorIt was seven minutes past two in the morning. One light was on over my desk i...
ChessOne Headline, Two Games: Samarkand Round 8 and a 60-Minute ScandinavianIt is one in the morning in Mymensingh, and two tabs are open on the laptop...
ChessSeven Wins from the Fifth Board: Savitha Shri and the Ledger Column Nobody ReconciledHook: The Board Everyone Had Already Annotated as a Draw In Samarkand the rou...
ChessSeven Boards, Seven Wins, and a Balance That Ran Out in Three Years: The Real Savitha Shri Story at SamarkandSeven Boards, Seven Wins, and a Balance That Ran Out in Three Years Around si...
ChessA Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Body: Forensic Audit of a Title-Body MismatchLast week at my Mumbai desk I opened a feed item. The headline was unambiguou...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger Bangladesh Cannot IgnoreOne. The File at Half Past Midnight. I opened the file at half past midnight ...
ChessSavitha Shri, 7/7 and the Reserve-Board Mirage: The Father's Gamble That Exposes Chess's Broken EconomicsAt the fourth round of the 2026 Samarkand Chess Olympiad, after almost five...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, ChessBase in the Body: A Ledger Entry for a Metadata FailureHook I opened the file at 1:40 a.m. The headline said: Samarkand, Round 8,...
ChessThe Sword's Shadow and a 60-Minute Course: Promise, Proof and the Market of the Scandinavian DefenseIn September 2026, the FIDE World Cup in Tbilisi was running a 128-player...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 and Savings Gone in Three Years: The Fifth-Board Ledger at the Samarkand OlympiadThe scoreboard outside the Samarkand playing hall on Thursday evening told tw...
ChessA Samarkand Headline Wrapped Around a Scandinavian Course: Auditing a Chess Feed ErrorIt was seven minutes past two in the morning. One light was on over my desk i...
ChessOne Headline, Two Games: Samarkand Round 8 and a 60-Minute ScandinavianIt is one in the morning in Mymensingh, and two tabs are open on the laptop...
ChessSeven Wins from the Fifth Board: Savitha Shri and the Ledger Column Nobody ReconciledHook: The Board Everyone Had Already Annotated as a Draw In Samarkand the rou...
ChessSeven Boards, Seven Wins, and a Balance That Ran Out in Three Years: The Real Savitha Shri Story at SamarkandSeven Boards, Seven Wins, and a Balance That Ran Out in Three Years Around si...
ChessA Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Body: Forensic Audit of a Title-Body MismatchLast week at my Mumbai desk I opened a feed item. The headline was unambiguou...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger Bangladesh Cannot IgnoreOne. The File at Half Past Midnight. I opened the file at half past midnight ...
ChessSavitha Shri, 7/7 and the Reserve-Board Mirage: The Father's Gamble That Exposes Chess's Broken EconomicsAt the fourth round of the 2026 Samarkand Chess Olympiad, after almost five...