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ChessSamarkand R8: Germany's Shock, Uzbekistan's Setback — and the Advertisement Behind the Headline2026-09-26The headline read: 'Samarkand R8 (Open): Germany stun Uzbekistan, join them i...
ChessA Headline Without a Receipt: An Account Audit of the FIDE–Najdorf Document2026-09-27Hook: A Document That Does Not Reconcile With Itself At five past seven Mosco...
ChessAuditing 5.e5!: Erigaisi–Laohawirapap, the Modern Italian, and an Incomplete Dataset2026-09-27Before any chess game enters my ledger, six cells must be filled: event, date...
ChessTwo Articles on One Page: A FIDE Claim, a Najdorf Update, and the Empty Square Where the Source Should Be2026-09-26In the winter of 2026 I spent four days in the federation hall at Purana...
ChessSamarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 Miniatures: A Data Audit of One Headline Mismatch2026-09-26Samarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 Miniatures: A Data Audit of One Headline...
ChessNot Samarkand, But Prague: The ChessBase Magazine #225 File and the Unwritten Load Ledger of Chess Training2026-09-26Hook Last week I opened a file. The headline said Samarkand, round eight,...
A Headline Without a Receipt: An Account Audit of the FIDE–Najdorf DocumentHook: A Document That Does Not Reconcile With Itself At five past seven Mosco...
Auditing 5.e5!: Erigaisi–Laohawirapap, the Modern Italian, and an Incomplete DatasetBefore any chess game enters my ledger, six cells must be filled: event, date...
Two Articles on One Page: A FIDE Claim, a Najdorf Update, and the Empty Square Where the Source Should BeIn the winter of 2026 I spent four days in the federation hall at Purana...
Samarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 Miniatures: A Data Audit of One Headline MismatchSamarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 Miniatures: A Data Audit of One Headline...
Not Samarkand, But Prague: The ChessBase Magazine #225 File and the Unwritten Load Ledger of Chess TrainingHook Last week I opened a file. The headline said Samarkand, round eight,...
Samarkand R8: Germany's Shock, Uzbekistan's Setback — and the Advertisement Behind the HeadlineThe headline read: 'Samarkand R8 (Open): Germany stun Uzbekistan, join them i...
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Body: Chess Media's Trust Crisis and the Club-Player MarketI was scrolling a chess feed late one night when a headline stopped my thumb:...
The Sword of Damocles: A One-Hour Video and the Debit Ledger Ticking on Black's ClockThe plastic chairs at the Purana Paltan tea stall still creak the same way....
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Three-Year Runway: The Reserve Board That Rewrote India's Samarkand ArithmeticThe Thursday round in Samarkand took almost five hours. On the same day, on t...
The Hanging Sword and the Sixty-Minute Promise: The Quiet Ledger Behind a Scandinavian Defense CourseLast month, at two in the morning Dublin time, I ran an online blitz game bac...
Seven Wins, One Bad Ledger: Savitha Shri's 7/7 in Samarkand and Chess's Invisible BillThe clock in the Samarkand playing hall crossed five hours, and on board five...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Promise and One Unverified NameOne a.m. in a small Penang flat, laptop light on a glass table, tea gone cold...
The Sword of Damocles and the Queen's Tempo: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, an Incomplete Repertoire, and Bangladesh's Fifty-Year GapDecember 2026, the league hall in Purana Paltan — the one where no air moves...
Auditing 5.e5!: Erigaisi–Laohawirapap, the Modern Italian, and an Incomplete DatasetBefore any chess game enters my ledger, six cells must be filled: event, date...
Two Articles on One Page: A FIDE Claim, a Najdorf Update, and the Empty Square Where the Source Should BeIn the winter of 2026 I spent four days in the federation hall at Purana...
Samarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 Miniatures: A Data Audit of One Headline MismatchSamarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 Miniatures: A Data Audit of One Headline...
Not Samarkand, But Prague: The ChessBase Magazine #225 File and the Unwritten Load Ledger of Chess TrainingHook Last week I opened a file. The headline said Samarkand, round eight,...
Samarkand R8: Germany's Shock, Uzbekistan's Setback — and the Advertisement Behind the HeadlineThe headline read: 'Samarkand R8 (Open): Germany stun Uzbekistan, join them i...
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Body: Chess Media's Trust Crisis and the Club-Player MarketI was scrolling a chess feed late one night when a headline stopped my thumb:...
The Sword of Damocles: A One-Hour Video and the Debit Ledger Ticking on Black's ClockThe plastic chairs at the Purana Paltan tea stall still creak the same way....
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Three-Year Runway: The Reserve Board That Rewrote India's Samarkand ArithmeticThe Thursday round in Samarkand took almost five hours. On the same day, on t...
The Hanging Sword and the Sixty-Minute Promise: The Quiet Ledger Behind a Scandinavian Defense CourseLast month, at two in the morning Dublin time, I ran an online blitz game bac...
Seven Wins, One Bad Ledger: Savitha Shri's 7/7 in Samarkand and Chess's Invisible BillThe clock in the Samarkand playing hall crossed five hours, and on board five...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Promise and One Unverified NameOne a.m. in a small Penang flat, laptop light on a glass table, tea gone cold...
The Sword of Damocles and the Queen's Tempo: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, an Incomplete Repertoire, and Bangladesh's Fifty-Year GapDecember 2026, the league hall in Purana Paltan — the one where no air moves...