Chess
The Lonely Walk of the e5 Pawn: Sarana's Olympiad, Sveshnikov's Inheritance and the Club Player's Asymmetrical Memory
Five Hours in a Lost Position, 54 Moves Back: India's Samarkand Gold Race Rests on One Board
The Headline Says One Thing, the File Says Another: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Training Market, and Bangladesh's Seventeen Years
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, Zero Evidence in the Headline: A Chess-News Misdiagnosis
The Lonely Walk of the e5 Pawn: Sarana's Olympiad, Sveshnikov's Inheritance and the Club Player's Asymmetrical MemoryThe pawn is the most honest witness this game has ever had. It does not lie, ...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf, Zero Evidence in the Headline: A Chess-News MisdiagnosisI sat down in front of a download page because it was the only document I had...
Board Four in Samarkand: How a 54-Move Comeback Rewrote India's Gold LedgerIn Samarkand, the clock on board four had passed the five-hour mark and D...
The King Who Walked, the Cupboard That Stayed Shut: The Olympiad's 5.e5 and the Ledger of an Open WeaponThe steel cupboard in the federation hall at Purana Paltan still holds Niaz...
Houdini's 54 Moves: Gukesh's Escape and the Cold Arithmetic of India's Gold DreamSamarkand, Round 9. On board seven, the clock bled. D Gukesh had been sitting...
54 Moves in Samarkand: D Gukesh's Houdini Escape and the Ledger Behind India's Gold RaceSamarkand, Round 9: I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. B...
Five Hours in a Lost Position, 54 Moves Back: India's Samarkand Gold Race Rests on One BoardOn board one of Samarkand's ninth round the clock had already crossed five...
Prague's Board, My Bedroom Screen: ChessBase Magazine #225 Sells a Method It Has Not ProvenThe file opened, and I went looking for a move. I found a catalogue. The labe...
Not Samarkand, But Prague: What Is Inside and What Is Missing From the ChessBase Magazine #225 FileHook: The File That Forgot Its Own Name Last week I opened a file. The title...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Elite Analysis, Opening Videos and a Multi-Format Training Package — But the Title Tells Another StoryI learned in the anchor chair that silence is a production cue. When the...
The Headline Says One Thing, the File Says Another: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Training Market, and Bangladesh's Seventeen YearsTwo things were lying side by side on my desk in Saint Petersburg — a headlin...