Chess
A Najdorf Update, a Headline Gap, and the Sixty-Minute Promise2026-09-27Hook: the night the document and the claim slept side by side On my laptop, t...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Confidence and the Debt of a Tempo2026-09-26In the winter of 2026 I found Niaz Murshed's 2026 norm sheet inside the steel...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase #225 and a Scoreline Nobody Can Find2026-09-26Samarkand, round eight, women's section, China leading with 15/16. Eight word...
A Samarkand R8 Headline on a 60-Minute Course Body: Autopsy of a Feed Error2026-09-26You stop on a headline while scrolling a feed. It reads: Samarkand Open, Roun...
A Najdorf Update, a Headline Gap, and the Sixty-Minute PromiseHook: the night the document and the claim slept side by side On my laptop, t...
The King Walk Nobody Saw: An Olympiad Headline, an Old Line, and a Club Player's Pocket WeaponThree thirty-two in the morning in Mymensingh, and the only light in the room...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Arithmetic of India's Single-Point DependenceFor more than five hours D Gukesh sat inside a position any engine would mark...
5.e5! — One Move, Four Missing Numbers, and an Incomplete LedgerThe picture is simple. Black's pawn on e5 is gone — it came down to d4 long...
The Packaging Is the Product: ChessBase Magazine #225, a Mislabelled Headline, and the Real Ledger of the Training MarketThe headline was short, numeric, assertive — "Samarkand R8 (women): China lea...
Samarkand Round 9: The Board-Four 'Houdini' and India's Single-Point DependenceThe clock at Samarkand crossed the five-hour mark in Round 9. On board four s...
Samarkand Round 9: Behind Gukesh's Houdini Escape Sits India's Single-Point DependenceFive hours have gone past at board four in the Samarkand playing hall. D Guke...
The Box Labeled Samarkand, the Contents From Prague: Chess's Training Market and Our Seventeen Years Under the Wrong HeadingThe steel cupboard in the Purana Paltan federation hall gave up its dust in...
Sword of Damocles in Sixty Minutes: The Scandinavian Defense Advert and the Arithmetic of the BoardIt is half past eleven at night in a bedroom in Mymensingh. On a secondhand...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Confidence and the Debt of a TempoIn the winter of 2026 I found Niaz Murshed's 2026 norm sheet inside the steel...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase #225 and a Scoreline Nobody Can FindSamarkand, round eight, women's section, China leading with 15/16. Eight word...
ChessBase Magazine Promo Behind a Samarkand Headline? Lessons from a Title-Content GapNot matching a headline to the board position has become a habit. After taggi...
A Samarkand R8 Headline on a 60-Minute Course Body: Autopsy of a Feed ErrorYou stop on a headline while scrolling a feed. It reads: Samarkand Open, Roun...
The King Walk Nobody Saw: An Olympiad Headline, an Old Line, and a Club Player's Pocket WeaponThree thirty-two in the morning in Mymensingh, and the only light in the room...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Arithmetic of India's Single-Point DependenceFor more than five hours D Gukesh sat inside a position any engine would mark...
5.e5! — One Move, Four Missing Numbers, and an Incomplete LedgerThe picture is simple. Black's pawn on e5 is gone — it came down to d4 long...
The Packaging Is the Product: ChessBase Magazine #225, a Mislabelled Headline, and the Real Ledger of the Training MarketThe headline was short, numeric, assertive — "Samarkand R8 (women): China lea...
Samarkand Round 9: The Board-Four 'Houdini' and India's Single-Point DependenceThe clock at Samarkand crossed the five-hour mark in Round 9. On board four s...
Samarkand Round 9: Behind Gukesh's Houdini Escape Sits India's Single-Point DependenceFive hours have gone past at board four in the Samarkand playing hall. D Guke...
The Box Labeled Samarkand, the Contents From Prague: Chess's Training Market and Our Seventeen Years Under the Wrong HeadingThe steel cupboard in the Purana Paltan federation hall gave up its dust in...
Sword of Damocles in Sixty Minutes: The Scandinavian Defense Advert and the Arithmetic of the BoardIt is half past eleven at night in a bedroom in Mymensingh. On a secondhand...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Confidence and the Debt of a TempoIn the winter of 2026 I found Niaz Murshed's 2026 norm sheet inside the steel...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase #225 and a Scoreline Nobody Can FindSamarkand, round eight, women's section, China leading with 15/16. Eight word...
ChessBase Magazine Promo Behind a Samarkand Headline? Lessons from a Title-Content GapNot matching a headline to the board position has become a habit. After taggi...
A Samarkand R8 Headline on a 60-Minute Course Body: Autopsy of a Feed ErrorYou stop on a headline while scrolling a feed. It reads: Samarkand Open, Roun...