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ChessGame #740: Erigaisi, One Move, and the Problem of an Open Door2026-09-26The move is number five. White's pawn leaves e4 and lands on e5, and the whol...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Misleading Headlines, Training Promises, and the Crisis of Chess Information Trust2026-09-26When I first received the analysis of ChessBase Magazine #225, the glaring...
ChessBehind the King Walk at 5.e5: The Olympiad ‘Highlight’ Whose Moves Nobody Wrote Down2026-09-27Last week I stopped halfway through a coaching column. The headline promised ...
Chess5.e5! — A Ledger for One Line, and the King Walk the Headline Lost2026-09-26Fourteen information points. I counted them twice, because a mistake in a...
ChessBehind the King Walk at 5.e5: The Olympiad ‘Highlight’ Whose Moves Nobody Wrote DownLast week I stopped halfway through a coaching column. The headline promised ...
Chess5.e5! — A Ledger for One Line, and the King Walk the Headline LostFourteen information points. I counted them twice, because a mistake in a...
Chess5.e5! and a Missing Number: Erigaisi–Laohawirapap, the Sveshnikov Shadow, and the Club Player's Silent LoadI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's Houdini Act and the Arithmetic of Board FourIt is two in the morning in Penang. A laptop on the dining table, a cup of te...
ChessChess Olympiad Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Comeback and the Ledger of India's Single DependencyThe clock in the Samarkand hall had passed the five-hour mark, and D Gukesh,...
ChessA FIDE Presidency in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: The Claim Has No Floor, the File Has OneThree in the morning, a bedroom in Mymensingh. I open the feed on a secondhan...
ChessGame #740: Erigaisi, One Move, and the Problem of an Open DoorThe move is number five. White's pawn leaves e4 and lands on e5, and the whol...
ChessThe King's Walk, Sveshnikov's Fingerprint and 5.e5: An Opening That Travelled From the Olympiad to the Club TableI sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue. Augus...
ChessThe Fifty-Fourth Move in Samarkand: Gukesh's Houdini and the Cracks Beneath India's GoldFourth board, the main hall in Samarkand. The wall clock is closing on five...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Misleading Headlines, Training Promises, and the Crisis of Chess Information TrustWhen I first received the analysis of ChessBase Magazine #225, the glaring...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Mislabelled FileIt was forty minutes past midnight in a room in Mymensingh when I opened a fi...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Body: The Two Numbers Nobody Reconciles in the Chess-Content LedgerI opened the file to write a report on round eight of the women's section. Th...
Chess5.e5! — A Ledger for One Line, and the King Walk the Headline LostFourteen information points. I counted them twice, because a mistake in a...
Chess5.e5! and a Missing Number: Erigaisi–Laohawirapap, the Sveshnikov Shadow, and the Club Player's Silent LoadI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's Houdini Act and the Arithmetic of Board FourIt is two in the morning in Penang. A laptop on the dining table, a cup of te...
ChessChess Olympiad Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Comeback and the Ledger of India's Single DependencyThe clock in the Samarkand hall had passed the five-hour mark, and D Gukesh,...
ChessA FIDE Presidency in the Headline, a Najdorf Download in the Body: The Claim Has No Floor, the File Has OneThree in the morning, a bedroom in Mymensingh. I open the feed on a secondhan...
ChessGame #740: Erigaisi, One Move, and the Problem of an Open DoorThe move is number five. White's pawn leaves e4 and lands on e5, and the whol...
ChessThe King's Walk, Sveshnikov's Fingerprint and 5.e5: An Opening That Travelled From the Olympiad to the Club TableI sat in the anchor chair and learned that silence is a production cue. Augus...
ChessThe Fifty-Fourth Move in Samarkand: Gukesh's Houdini and the Cracks Beneath India's GoldFourth board, the main hall in Samarkand. The wall clock is closing on five...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Misleading Headlines, Training Promises, and the Crisis of Chess Information TrustWhen I first received the analysis of ChessBase Magazine #225, the glaring...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Mislabelled FileIt was forty minutes past midnight in a room in Mymensingh when I opened a fi...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Body: The Two Numbers Nobody Reconciles in the Chess-Content LedgerI opened the file to write a report on round eight of the women's section. Th...