Chess
From a Dead Draw to a Win: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Real Ledger of India's Pipeline
A Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Body: Notes From a Source Audit
A Samarkand Headline Over a ChessBase Product Page: The Metadata Crack and the Training-Market Ledger
A Headline and Its Missing Body: Round 8 in Samarkand and Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defence
A Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Body: Notes From a Source AuditNot yesterday — the date itself is missing. A headline about Round 8 in...
A Samarkand Headline Over a ChessBase Product Page: The Metadata Crack and the Training-Market LedgerA file arrived in September with a headline: Samarkand, round eight, women's...
A Headline and Its Missing Body: Round 8 in Samarkand and Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian DefenceMoscow, seven in the evening. A file lands in the inbox and its headline read...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Arithmetic of EvidenceSamarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the...
Samarkand Round 8, Germany's Shake-Up, and the Sixty Minutes of the ScandinavianPLACEHOLDER
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Empty Square Inside the Training Package, and a Title With the Wrong AddressPenang, Wednesday, 9pm. On the upper floor above a kopitiam, three tables: on...
Seven Wins on Board Five: Savitha Shri's Samarkand and the Ledger Nobody Is ReconcilingNobody stops in front of board five on a scoresheet. A team match gives you...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Sixty-Minute Promise and What It Actually Costs at the BoardThe second round of the 2026 Premier Division Chess League was running at the...
Samarkand Headline, Scandinavian Advertisement: The Report That Contains No NewsThe first line that caught my eye on the laptop screen was the result of roun...
The Headline Says Samarkand, the Body Says Prague 2026: Dissecting ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Silent Injury of the Chess Information ChainHook — Two Bodies, One Chart Last week, at my desk in Colombo, a file crossed...
From a Dead Draw to a Win: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Real Ledger of India's PipelineI am sitting in a Mymensingh room with a stream stalled on a 4G router, the...