Chess
When a Headline and Its Body Belong to Two Worlds: The Najdorf Update, the FIDE Claim, and a Forged Block
The Annual Dust on a Najdorf File, an Unverifiable Headline, and Chess's Unfinished Ledger
The Report That Forgot Its Own Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Real Ledger of Training
The 5 e5 Ledger: Sarana's King Walked, But the Move List Never Arrived
5.e5!: The Blade, the Halo, and the Engine's Silence
ChessThe 5 e5 Ledger: Sarana's King Walked, But the Move List Never ArrivedI laid the board out first, then read the headline again. Alexei Sarana, it...
ChessWhen a Headline and Its Body Belong to Two Worlds: The Najdorf Update, the FIDE Claim, and a Forged BlockA chess file arrived with a headline: “Timur Turlov Elected President of FIDE...
Chess5.e5!: The Blade, the Halo, and the Engine's SilenceI filed my first match report from the BCF hall at Purana Paltan in early 202...
ChessThe Annual Dust on a Najdorf File, an Unverifiable Headline, and Chess's Unfinished LedgerI opened the file on a secondhand laptop in my Mymensingh bedroom at three in...
ChessThe Report That Forgot Its Own Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Real Ledger of TrainingThe headline arrived about Samarkand. Round eight of a women's team event,...
ChessFive Hours in Samarkand: Gukesh's Houdini, India's Fragile Gold Chase, and the Ledger Behind the BoardThe tea had gone cold on my Khulna balcony an hour earlier. On the laptop...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Folder: The Broken Address of Chess NewsHalf past eight in the evening, a laptop on a Delhi balcony. Four words climb...
ChessSword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and a Market That Sells ConfidenceSixty minutes. The promotional page said it plainly: a one-hour video on the...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Shadow, and Our Empty RoomsA winter dawn. The room at Purana Paltan still smells the same — old paper, a...
ChessThe Headline Says Samarkand, the Body Says ScandinavianIt was half past eleven in Dublin. Dhaka was five hours ahead, so the sports...
ChessSavitha Shri: Seven From Seven in Samarkand, and a Ten-Year Plan That Ran Out in ThreeBy the time Thursday's round ended in Samarkand, four to five hours had gone....
ChessWhen a Headline and Its Body Belong to Two Worlds: The Najdorf Update, the FIDE Claim, and a Forged BlockA chess file arrived with a headline: “Timur Turlov Elected President of FIDE...
Chess5.e5!: The Blade, the Halo, and the Engine's SilenceI filed my first match report from the BCF hall at Purana Paltan in early 202...
ChessThe Annual Dust on a Najdorf File, an Unverifiable Headline, and Chess's Unfinished LedgerI opened the file on a secondhand laptop in my Mymensingh bedroom at three in...
ChessThe Report That Forgot Its Own Name: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Real Ledger of TrainingThe headline arrived about Samarkand. Round eight of a women's team event,...
ChessFive Hours in Samarkand: Gukesh's Houdini, India's Fragile Gold Chase, and the Ledger Behind the BoardThe tea had gone cold on my Khulna balcony an hour earlier. On the laptop...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Folder: The Broken Address of Chess NewsHalf past eight in the evening, a laptop on a Delhi balcony. Four words climb...
ChessSword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, and a Market That Sells ConfidenceSixty minutes. The promotional page said it plainly: a one-hour video on the...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Shadow, and Our Empty RoomsA winter dawn. The room at Purana Paltan still smells the same — old paper, a...
ChessThe Headline Says Samarkand, the Body Says ScandinavianIt was half past eleven in Dublin. Dhaka was five hours ahead, so the sports...
ChessSavitha Shri: Seven From Seven in Samarkand, and a Ten-Year Plan That Ran Out in ThreeBy the time Thursday's round ended in Samarkand, four to five hours had gone....