Chess
A King's Walk, an Empty Folder, and the Market Price of 5.e5
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague File: Where the Label and the Record Disagree
Italian Game in the Olympiad's Shadow: The 5 e5 Line, Sarana's King Walk, and an Unfinished Headline
A Samarkand Label on a King's Indian Bottle: Testing the 9...a5 'Antidote'
Sarana's King Walk and the 5.e5 Ledger: A Line Sold Without a Scoresheet
Game of the Week #740: Erigaisi’s Name, the Gamble of e5, and the Data Nobody Showed
ChessItalian Game in the Olympiad's Shadow: The 5 e5 Line, Sarana's King Walk, and an Unfinished Headline1. Hook — The Moves Nobody Wrote Down A king walked. That is what the headlin...
ChessA Samarkand Label on a King's Indian Bottle: Testing the 9...a5 'Antidote'The file I opened at my Bangalore desk on a Tuesday morning had two pages...
ChessSarana's King Walk and the 5.e5 Ledger: A Line Sold Without a ScoresheetThe page in my ledger is still blank. At the top I have written: "60 Minutes...
ChessGame of the Week #740: Erigaisi’s Name, the Gamble of e5, and the Data Nobody ShowedThe fifth move was the story, not the seventeenth. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf...
ChessA King's Walk, an Empty Folder, and the Market Price of 5.e5Last Thursday, three in the morning, a scanned page from an old magazine...
ChessWhere the Board Wasn't: ChessBase Magazine #225, a Samarkand Headline, and the Ledger of TrainingThe headline carried a board: Samarkand, round eight, women's section, China...
ChessFrom Samarkand to Prague: How a Filename Turned Into a Receipt for a Training ProductThe file was named Samarkand. Inside, it was Prague. On a Moscow desk, my hab...
ChessSword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Real Bill on the BoardMy old notebook is titled “Things the Scoreboard Cannot See.” Last Thursday, ...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Prague File: Where the Label and the Record DisagreeThe first line of the file was Samarkand. Round eight, women's section, China...
ChessThe Title Says Samarkand, the File Says ChessBase #225: The Same Labelling Error Runs Through Bangladesh's Chess LedgerAt half past eleven on a Wednesday night in Mymensingh, the file finished...
ChessSeven Wins from the Reserve Board: Savitha Shri and the Real Cost of a Chess PipelineSamarkand, Thursday. The clock on the table has crossed five hours, and at...