Chess
Samarkand in the Headline, King's Indian in the Body: A Fracture in the Chess-Instruction Market
The Empty Board at Samarkand: Yom Kippur, a Two-Section Forfeit, and the Gap the Chess Olympiad Rules Left Exposed
Three Moves, Thirty Minutes: Nihal's Lost Win and the Cruel Arithmetic of Team Scoring
A Samarkand Headline on a DVD's Body: The Incomplete Move of Chess Reporting
One Plan, Seven Openings, Six Videos: Who Keeps the Books for Black After 1.d4
Samarkand in the Headline, King's Indian in the Body: A Fracture in the Chess-Instruction MarketLast night I came back from the commentary booth, opened my laptop, and found...
A Samarkand Headline on a DVD's Body: The Incomplete Move of Chess ReportingWhen I read a chess report, I count two things: how many names sit in the...
One Plan, Seven Openings, Six Videos: Who Keeps the Books for Black After 1.d4Thirty-five years in this trade and I still cannot break one habit: when...
The Empty Board at Samarkand: Yom Kippur, a Two-Section Forfeit, and the Gap the Chess Olympiad Rules Left ExposedThe clock started at the Samarkand hall in September 2026, but the chair besi...
Three Moves, Thirty Minutes: Nihal's Lost Win and the Cruel Arithmetic of Team ScoringThe steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. In 2026, ...
The Score Sheet with the Coffee Ring: Savitha's 5/5 and India's Quiet Lower-Board LedgerIt was forty-six minutes past midnight in Khulna. The laptop was warm against...