Chess
A Samarkand Headline, a 60-Minute Course: The Ledger of a Provenance Failure
The Scandinavian Defense Course: Which Claim Can Be Checked, and Which Cannot
The Runway That Ended in Three Years: Samarkand's Reserve Board and One Family's Balance Sheet
Samarkand's Round Eight and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Ledger Behind a Headline
ChessThe Runway That Ended in Three Years: Samarkand's Reserve Board and One Family's Balance SheetOn Thursday in Samarkand, two Indian boards produced two contradictory result...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a 60-Minute Course: The Ledger of a Provenance FailureOne page. The top line reads: Samarkand, Round 8 — Germany stunned Uzbekistan...
ChessSamarkand's Round Eight and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Ledger Behind a HeadlineSamarkand's Round Eight and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Ledger Behind a...
ChessSavitha Shri: How a Father's Career Gamble Built an Olympiad HeroA 19-year-old girl sitting at the chessboard, winning all seven of her games....
ChessChessBase Under a Samarkand Headline: An Unexpected Chapter in Chess Training EconomicsA headline said: Samarkand, Women's Round 8, China 15/16. I clicked expecting...
ChessSeven Wins, Seven Games: The Samarkand Reserve Board and One Family's LedgerHook The Thursday round ended two different ways on two different boards. On...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: How the Scandinavian Defense Is Sold, and What the Sales Copy Leaves OutThe Sixty-Minute Sword The laptop in my Mymensingh bedroom is open, and it is...
ChessSavitha Shri: 7/7 Is a Sample — and a Father's Exhausted SavingsThe Thursday round in Samarkand had crossed five hours. On the board for...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles and a Sixty-Minute Receipt: An Unaudited Ledger of the Scandinavian DefenseA thirteen-point promotional blurb arrived in my inbox last month: a...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: One Hour of the Scandinavian, and the Unwritten Ledger of Chess's Course Economy11:47 at night. In a Mymensingh bedroom the only moving thing is a ceiling fa...
ChessSeven Wins on the Reserve Board, and the Three-Year Runway That Ran OutThe clock in the Samarkand playing hall was walking toward its fifth hour, an...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense Course: Which Claim Can Be Checked, and Which CannotLast Saturday, at a club rapid in Mumbai, I sat staring at the board for...
ChessThe Pawn Sac on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit, Bodhana Sivanandan's Name, and the Ledger of a MismatchI tagged 640 games before I understood the bedroom. December 2026, a small fl...
ChessSeven Wins, Three Years: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board and the Two-Fold Hole in Her Father's LedgerI opened the second-round results sheet from Samarkand and did the thing I...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a 60-Minute Course: The Ledger of a Provenance FailureOne page. The top line reads: Samarkand, Round 8 — Germany stunned Uzbekistan...
ChessSamarkand's Round Eight and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Ledger Behind a HeadlineSamarkand's Round Eight and a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian: The Ledger Behind a...
ChessSavitha Shri: How a Father's Career Gamble Built an Olympiad HeroA 19-year-old girl sitting at the chessboard, winning all seven of her games....
ChessChessBase Under a Samarkand Headline: An Unexpected Chapter in Chess Training EconomicsA headline said: Samarkand, Women's Round 8, China 15/16. I clicked expecting...
ChessSeven Wins, Seven Games: The Samarkand Reserve Board and One Family's LedgerHook The Thursday round ended two different ways on two different boards. On...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: How the Scandinavian Defense Is Sold, and What the Sales Copy Leaves OutThe Sixty-Minute Sword The laptop in my Mymensingh bedroom is open, and it is...
ChessSavitha Shri: 7/7 Is a Sample — and a Father's Exhausted SavingsThe Thursday round in Samarkand had crossed five hours. On the board for...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles and a Sixty-Minute Receipt: An Unaudited Ledger of the Scandinavian DefenseA thirteen-point promotional blurb arrived in my inbox last month: a...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: One Hour of the Scandinavian, and the Unwritten Ledger of Chess's Course Economy11:47 at night. In a Mymensingh bedroom the only moving thing is a ceiling fa...
ChessSeven Wins on the Reserve Board, and the Three-Year Runway That Ran OutThe clock in the Samarkand playing hall was walking toward its fifth hour, an...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense Course: Which Claim Can Be Checked, and Which CannotLast Saturday, at a club rapid in Mumbai, I sat staring at the board for...
ChessThe Pawn Sac on Move Two: The Elephant Gambit, Bodhana Sivanandan's Name, and the Ledger of a MismatchI tagged 640 games before I understood the bedroom. December 2026, a small fl...
ChessSeven Wins, Three Years: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board and the Two-Fold Hole in Her Father's LedgerI opened the second-round results sheet from Samarkand and did the thing I...