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The King Walks, the Scorebook Stays Empty: Sarana's Olympiad Line and the Club Player's Real Bargain
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Training Package, Premium Annotation, and a Metadata Gap
The Samarkand Ledger: Five Hours of Patience, and India's Gold Resting on One Pair of Shoulders
A Headline Bolted Onto a Product Page: The Evidence Void in Chess Reporting and the Annual Repair of a Najdorf File
5 e5!: The Olympiad's Hidden Line, an Empty Move List, and the Arithmetic of the Club Board
A Headline Bolted Onto a Product Page: The Evidence Void in Chess Reporting and the Annual Repair of a Najdorf FileI opened the file at two in the morning. At the top, a headline claiming a...
5 e5!: The Olympiad's Hidden Line, an Empty Move List, and the Arithmetic of the Club BoardChennai, July 2026. The 44th Chess Olympiad at Mahabalipuram. I picked one...
The King Walks, the Scorebook Stays Empty: Sarana's Olympiad Line and the Club Player's Real BargainIt was nearly two in the morning in Dhaka. The ninth night of fourteen in...
A FIDE Election in the Headline, a Najdorf File in the Body: A Data AuditLast week a file landed on my desk. The headline read: 'Timur Turlov elected...
Game #740: The 5.e5 Trap, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Proof Nobody Ran Through an EngineOn my desk in Khulna the printed pages have been stacking up — week after wee...
Chess's New Weapon: How Effective Is Erigaisi's 5.e5! Attack for Club Players?Chess's New Weapon: How Effective Is Erigaisi's 5.e5! Attack for Club Players...
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Clock, India's Fracture, and the Board That Stayed Frozen in Purana PaltanTwo-ten in the morning in Penang. A plastic chair on the balcony, a laptop...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Training Package, Premium Annotation, and a Metadata GapHook When I opened the file on my desk, I was looking for one number: 15/16....
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Comeback Kept India Alive, but the Ledger Recorded a Single-Point DependencyFive hours and more. On board four in Samarkand, D Gukesh's position was...
The Samarkand Ledger: Five Hours of Patience, and India's Gold Resting on One Pair of ShouldersThe clock on Board 4 in Samarkand had already passed the five-hour mark when ...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: Reading a Mismatch in Chess's Information EconomyOn the balcony table in Khulna, a screenshot still sits on a 2026 laptop. At...
Sword of Damocles: The Sixty-Minute Promise and the Real Price of the Scandinavian DefenseNine-thirty in the evening, a third-floor flat in Khulna. Under the table lam...
Seven from Seven: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board in Samarkand, and a Father's Three-Year SavingsHook: The Clock on Board Five The clock in the Samarkand tournament hall has...
The Missing 15/16 and the Found 27: A Ledger Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225Two sheets of paper are sitting side by side on my Mumbai desk. The first...
5 e5!: The Olympiad's Hidden Line, an Empty Move List, and the Arithmetic of the Club BoardChennai, July 2026. The 44th Chess Olympiad at Mahabalipuram. I picked one...
The King Walks, the Scorebook Stays Empty: Sarana's Olympiad Line and the Club Player's Real BargainIt was nearly two in the morning in Dhaka. The ninth night of fourteen in...
A FIDE Election in the Headline, a Najdorf File in the Body: A Data AuditLast week a file landed on my desk. The headline read: 'Timur Turlov elected...
Game #740: The 5.e5 Trap, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Proof Nobody Ran Through an EngineOn my desk in Khulna the printed pages have been stacking up — week after wee...
Chess's New Weapon: How Effective Is Erigaisi's 5.e5! Attack for Club Players?Chess's New Weapon: How Effective Is Erigaisi's 5.e5! Attack for Club Players...
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Clock, India's Fracture, and the Board That Stayed Frozen in Purana PaltanTwo-ten in the morning in Penang. A plastic chair on the balcony, a laptop...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Training Package, Premium Annotation, and a Metadata GapHook When I opened the file on my desk, I was looking for one number: 15/16....
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Comeback Kept India Alive, but the Ledger Recorded a Single-Point DependencyFive hours and more. On board four in Samarkand, D Gukesh's position was...
The Samarkand Ledger: Five Hours of Patience, and India's Gold Resting on One Pair of ShouldersThe clock on Board 4 in Samarkand had already passed the five-hour mark when ...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: Reading a Mismatch in Chess's Information EconomyOn the balcony table in Khulna, a screenshot still sits on a 2026 laptop. At...
Sword of Damocles: The Sixty-Minute Promise and the Real Price of the Scandinavian DefenseNine-thirty in the evening, a third-floor flat in Khulna. Under the table lam...
Seven from Seven: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board in Samarkand, and a Father's Three-Year SavingsHook: The Clock on Board Five The clock in the Samarkand tournament hall has...
The Missing 15/16 and the Found 27: A Ledger Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225Two sheets of paper are sitting side by side on my Mumbai desk. The first...