Chess
5.e5!: A King Walk in the Headline, No Move List in the Column
The Mislabeled Envelope, the Settled Dust: Chess's Training Market and Bangladesh's Seventeen-Year Silence
Seven Wins from Board Five, and a Father's Ledger Off by Two
Seven Wins, a Three-Year Ledger: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board in Samarkand and One Family's Balance Sheet
The Reserve Board's 7/7: Savitha Shri's Step-Function Rating, Her Father's Runway, and Five Hours of Fatigue
ChessBase Magazine #225: How Paid Chess Media Survives in the Age of Free ContentThe promotional piece published around the 225th issue of ChessBase Magazine ...
A World Champion on Board Four: Samarkand's Silver and the Ledger of Indian ChessThe last round in Samarkand carried one line nobody wanted to read: Gukesh...
5.e5!: A King Walk in the Headline, No Move List in the ColumnThe first strange number on the board is five. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4....
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Bangladesh's LedgerAt two in the morning in a Mumbai flat, the headline on my phone was...
A Samarkand Label, a Prague File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Real Ledger of the Training MarketHook: The File That Doesn't Know Its Own Name The label read: Samarkand, Roun...
The Mislabeled Envelope, the Settled Dust: Chess's Training Market and Bangladesh's Seventeen-Year SilenceThe envelope said Samarkand. Inside was Hamburg. An evening in the 2026...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Shadow, and the Real Price of the Course MarketHook: Fourteen Nights, a Knight, and a Queen That Came Back Late November 202...
A Samarkand Headline, Prague Content: The Metadata Gap Inside a Chess MagazineHook It is one in the morning in Penang. A tablet glows on the balcony; the t...
Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Promise, the Queen's Tempo, and the Ledger of the BoardHook Half past midnight on a Penang balcony, the laptop's blue light and my...
Seven Wins from Board Five, and a Father's Ledger Off by TwoThe fifth hour in Samarkand had come and gone. On and around the board, only...
Seven Wins, a Three-Year Ledger: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board in Samarkand and One Family's Balance SheetHook: Five hours, one drawn position, and one father's arithmetic Thursday's...
The Reserve Board's 7/7: Savitha Shri's Step-Function Rating, Her Father's Runway, and Five Hours of FatigueThursday in Samarkand, nearly five hours long. In that same session, India's...
A World Champion on Board Four: Samarkand's Silver and the Ledger of Indian ChessThe last round in Samarkand carried one line nobody wanted to read: Gukesh...
5.e5!: A King Walk in the Headline, No Move List in the ColumnThe first strange number on the board is five. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4....
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Bangladesh's LedgerAt two in the morning in a Mumbai flat, the headline on my phone was...
A Samarkand Label, a Prague File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Real Ledger of the Training MarketHook: The File That Doesn't Know Its Own Name The label read: Samarkand, Roun...
The Mislabeled Envelope, the Settled Dust: Chess's Training Market and Bangladesh's Seventeen-Year SilenceThe envelope said Samarkand. Inside was Hamburg. An evening in the 2026...
The Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Shadow, and the Real Price of the Course MarketHook: Fourteen Nights, a Knight, and a Queen That Came Back Late November 202...
A Samarkand Headline, Prague Content: The Metadata Gap Inside a Chess MagazineHook It is one in the morning in Penang. A tablet glows on the balcony; the t...
Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Promise, the Queen's Tempo, and the Ledger of the BoardHook Half past midnight on a Penang balcony, the laptop's blue light and my...
Seven Wins from Board Five, and a Father's Ledger Off by TwoThe fifth hour in Samarkand had come and gone. On and around the board, only...
Seven Wins, a Three-Year Ledger: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board in Samarkand and One Family's Balance SheetHook: Five hours, one drawn position, and one father's arithmetic Thursday's...
The Reserve Board's 7/7: Savitha Shri's Step-Function Rating, Her Father's Runway, and Five Hours of FatigueThursday in Samarkand, nearly five hours long. In that same session, India's...