Chess
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents: The Clock That Rang Inside the Prison and Never Reached the Sports Page
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Is Repair Work, Not Discovery
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and a Headline That Never Printed Its Own Story
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance, and a Date That Still Awaits a Witness
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: A Repertoire's Maintenance Bill
11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days: An IM Norm Claim and the Date Nobody Reconciled
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance, and a Date That Still Awaits a WitnessThe last round of 23 October. Board one. Black pieces. Across the board, Woma...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: A Repertoire's Maintenance BillThe video stopped at the thirty-fourth minute. On screen the 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3...
11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days: An IM Norm Claim and the Date Nobody Reconciled23 October. Board one. Black pieces. Three numbers came out of the report...
CBM #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and the Ledger the Buyer Has to FillThe number that lands first in the contents list of ChessBase Magazine issue...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents: The Clock That Rang Inside the Prison and Never Reached the Sports PageThe autorickshaw horn went off in the lane below my Indiranagar balcony on a...
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Board: Seeking the Unrecorded Stories of the Prison Chess ChampionshipThe first clue was a box score nobody thought to keep. Or rather, there was n...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Title: A Headline With No Moves UnderneathPick up a report and count it. The headline makes a clean claim: Wesley So be...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Is Repair Work, Not DiscoverySixty minutes. Five line clusters. And the two heaviest branches of the...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and a Headline That Never Printed Its Own StoryThe top line read: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win his...
A Rachel Li Headline on an Andrew Martin Scandinavian Defense Ad: Auditing a Twelve-Point Chess Document With No Source FieldSaint Petersburg. The file that landed on my desk on Monday morning had three...
European Club Cup 2026, Round 3: The Ledger Shows Eleven Tied Teams, the Headline Shows ThreeThe third round of the 2026 European Club Cup is done, and the first thing th...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: A Repertoire's Maintenance BillThe video stopped at the thirty-fourth minute. On screen the 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3...
11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days: An IM Norm Claim and the Date Nobody Reconciled23 October. Board one. Black pieces. Three numbers came out of the report...
CBM #225: Prague's 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators, and the Ledger the Buyer Has to FillThe number that lands first in the contents list of ChessBase Magazine issue...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents: The Clock That Rang Inside the Prison and Never Reached the Sports PageThe autorickshaw horn went off in the lane below my Indiranagar balcony on a...
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Board: Seeking the Unrecorded Stories of the Prison Chess ChampionshipThe first clue was a box score nobody thought to keep. Or rather, there was n...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Title: A Headline With No Moves UnderneathPick up a report and count it. The headline makes a clean claim: Wesley So be...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Is Repair Work, Not DiscoverySixty minutes. Five line clusters. And the two heaviest branches of the...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and a Headline That Never Printed Its Own StoryThe top line read: Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win his...
A Rachel Li Headline on an Andrew Martin Scandinavian Defense Ad: Auditing a Twelve-Point Chess Document With No Source FieldSaint Petersburg. The file that landed on my desk on Monday morning had three...
European Club Cup 2026, Round 3: The Ledger Shows Eleven Tied Teams, the Headline Shows ThreeThe third round of the 2026 European Club Cup is done, and the first thing th...