Chess
Savitha Shri: The Arithmetic of Seven Wins, and a Family's Three-Year Ledger
Samarkand's Round Eight, a Sixty-Minute Video, and One Empty Board
"Sword of Damocles": Sixty Minutes of Repertoire, Carlsen's Name, and the Unfinished Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense
Sword of Damocles or a Shield of Marketing: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Defense Course
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense: A Two-Tempo Ledger, an Unverified Carlsen Claim, and the Club Player's Open Ledger
Savitha Shri's 7/7: The Arithmetic of the Reserve Board, a Father's Career Gamble, and Chess's Real Cost
ChessSword of Damocles or a Shield of Marketing: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Defense CourseLast December, at table three of the Mymensingh District Chess Club, a move...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense: A Two-Tempo Ledger, an Unverified Carlsen Claim, and the Club Player's Open LedgerLast week, at 11:40 p.m. in my Mumbai flat, I pressed play on a promotional...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7: The Arithmetic of the Reserve Board, a Father's Career Gamble, and Chess's Real CostSamarkand, Thursday's round. Almost five hours on the clock. On one board the...
Chess1...d5: An Opening That Borrows Carlsen's Name, With a Game Number Still at ZeroLast Thursday, at my desk in Moscow, I read a thirteen-point course blurb. Th...
ChessSavitha Shri: The Arithmetic of Seven Wins, and a Family's Three-Year LedgerTwo numbers sat side by side on the Samarkand scorecard after Thursday's roun...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: The Game Nobody PlayedHalf past seven in the evening. Under a table lamp in a Delhi flat I opened a...
ChessSamarkand Round 8, a 60-Minute Video and a Broken Feed: The Physiology of Chess NewsHook: A Headline at 2:07 AM It is 2:07 AM in a Boston apartment. There is no...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles, a 60-Minute Promise, and the Ledger of an Unwitnessed ClaimThe screen says sixty minutes. Beneath it there is a name, a title, and one...
ChessSamarkand's Round Eight, a Sixty-Minute Video, and One Empty BoardScrolling a chess feed last week, one headline stopped me: "Samarkand R8...
Chess"Sword of Damocles": Sixty Minutes of Repertoire, Carlsen's Name, and the Unfinished Ledger of the Scandinavian DefenseHook: 3-3, an Empty Stadium, and a Course Advertisement On 30 August 2026, in...
ChessLondon, Colle, Trompowsky: Why White Avoids Theory and Why Black Buys the PlanLate at night in my Mymensingh bedroom I was annotating a club game for the...
Chess2...d5 — The Elephant Gambit, the Sixty-Minute Repertoire, and Bangladesh's Missing PipelineI stopped at the headline. Forty-eight years of reading sports pages,...
ChessCarlsen's Sword in Sixty Minutes? The Scandinavian Defense Advert and the Ledger of Purana PaltanHook: One Move, One Landing Page, One Night It is 2:40 a.m. on a balcony in...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense: A Two-Tempo Ledger, an Unverified Carlsen Claim, and the Club Player's Open LedgerLast week, at 11:40 p.m. in my Mumbai flat, I pressed play on a promotional...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7: The Arithmetic of the Reserve Board, a Father's Career Gamble, and Chess's Real CostSamarkand, Thursday's round. Almost five hours on the clock. On one board the...
Chess1...d5: An Opening That Borrows Carlsen's Name, With a Game Number Still at ZeroLast Thursday, at my desk in Moscow, I read a thirteen-point course blurb. Th...
ChessSavitha Shri: The Arithmetic of Seven Wins, and a Family's Three-Year LedgerTwo numbers sat side by side on the Samarkand scorecard after Thursday's roun...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: The Game Nobody PlayedHalf past seven in the evening. Under a table lamp in a Delhi flat I opened a...
ChessSamarkand Round 8, a 60-Minute Video and a Broken Feed: The Physiology of Chess NewsHook: A Headline at 2:07 AM It is 2:07 AM in a Boston apartment. There is no...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles, a 60-Minute Promise, and the Ledger of an Unwitnessed ClaimThe screen says sixty minutes. Beneath it there is a name, a title, and one...
ChessSamarkand's Round Eight, a Sixty-Minute Video, and One Empty BoardScrolling a chess feed last week, one headline stopped me: "Samarkand R8...
Chess"Sword of Damocles": Sixty Minutes of Repertoire, Carlsen's Name, and the Unfinished Ledger of the Scandinavian DefenseHook: 3-3, an Empty Stadium, and a Course Advertisement On 30 August 2026, in...
ChessLondon, Colle, Trompowsky: Why White Avoids Theory and Why Black Buys the PlanLate at night in my Mymensingh bedroom I was annotating a club game for the...
Chess2...d5 — The Elephant Gambit, the Sixty-Minute Repertoire, and Bangladesh's Missing PipelineI stopped at the headline. Forty-eight years of reading sports pages,...
ChessCarlsen's Sword in Sixty Minutes? The Scandinavian Defense Advert and the Ledger of Purana PaltanHook: One Move, One Landing Page, One Night It is 2:40 a.m. on a balcony in...