Chess
5.e5!: A Ledger for One Move, One Elite Sample, and the Club Board's Arithmetic
Sword of Damocles: Thirteen Marketing Claims in a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Unverified Carlsen Endorsement
Seven Wins, Zero Draws, and the Ledger Nobody Kept
Samarkand Round 8: Where the Headline Ends and the Course Begins
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Slot, a Family Receipt, and the Incomplete Ledger of Indian Chess
Samarkand's Round Eight and a Sixty-Minute Video: Where Chess News Breaks Its Own Chain
5.e5!: A Ledger for One Move, One Elite Sample, and the Club Board's ArithmeticSeven hundred and forty. That number is the first datapoint in this piece, an...
Samarkand Round 8: Where the Headline Ends and the Course BeginsThe headline was simple: at Round 8 in Samarkand, Germany stunned Uzbekistan...
Sword of Damocles: Thirteen Marketing Claims in a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course and the Unverified Carlsen EndorsementHook: A Sales Sheet, Thirteen Blocks I began tagging goals, and the goals beg...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Slot, a Family Receipt, and the Incomplete Ledger of Indian ChessHook India's women's team lost to Poland in the one round Savitha Shri sat ou...
Samarkand's Round Eight and a Sixty-Minute Video: Where Chess News Breaks Its Own ChainTwo in the morning, and the eleventh round of Batumi is still frozen on the...
Round Eight Under a Wrong Headline: The Scandinavian Defence, Carlsen's Borrowed Halo, and Dhaka's Tk 11 LakhI read the page twice. The first time I did not believe it; the second time I...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Diagnosis of an Information InjuryThe headline was about Samarkand. A women's team event, round eight, China...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: The Reserve Board's Ledger and a Father's Three-Year SavingsThursday was a study in contrast. The round at the Samarkand Olympiad ran...
Seven Wins, Zero Draws, and the Ledger Nobody KeptEveryone is writing the seven-win story. I went looking for the names of the...