Chess
The Weight of the e5 Pawn: The Game Missing From the Olympiad's 'King Walk'
Samarkand's 54 Moves and the Single-Point Dependence of a Gold Defence
ChessBase #225 and the Empty Samarkand Headline: The File Where a Tournament Slid Inside a Product
The File Where Samarkand Wasn't: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026, and the Economics of a Wrong Header
The Scoreline With No Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026 and a Metadata Accident
Chess Olympiad Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape, While India's Gold Dream Rests on One Pair of Shoulders
Chess Olympiad Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape, While India's Gold Dream Rests on One Pair of ShouldersIn the fifth hour of Round 9 in Samarkand, my notebook held two separate trut...
The Weight of the e5 Pawn: The Game Missing From the Olympiad's 'King Walk'The rain on the club shutters in Penang sounds like a chair dragged across we...
5.e5!: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Uneven Promise of Club Chess5.e5!: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Uneven Promise of Club Chess In a club...
Samarkand's 54 Moves and the Single-Point Dependence of a Gold DefenceHook: The Clock, the Board, and a Position Already Lost The clock in the...
ChessBase #225 and the Empty Samarkand Headline: The File Where a Tournament Slid Inside a ProductThe file opened at 12:40 a.m. The label carried four words — Samarkand, Round...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Rescue and India's Glass GoldThe evaluation bar on my screen had almost gone flat. For more than five hour...
Title Swap: Samarkand's 15/16 vs ChessBase Magazine #225The scoreline 15/16 hints at China's dominance in the women's team event at...
The File Where Samarkand Wasn't: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026, and the Economics of a Wrong HeaderA paper booklet, and with it a download key. On the distribution list of...
The Scoreline With No Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026 and a Metadata AccidentI had read the headline before I opened the file: Samarkand, round eight,...
One Board in the Title, Another in the Text: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Training Market, and a Missing LedgerAt 2:12 a.m. on a Dublin desk, the draft file opened with a headline:...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: The Round-8 File That Does Not MatchI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. It was midnight in...