Chess
New Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri Lilov's 'The Right King Road' Course
Samarkand's Silent Round Six: Yom Kippur, Consent-Based Scheduling and the Structural Gap in the Chess Olympiad
An Autopsy of the Scotch: A Phantom Headline and the Commercial Cycle of Opening Theory
Losing +2 With 30 Minutes Left: Why Nihal Sarin's Collapse Is a Chess-Injury Case Study
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead, and an Advertisement Filling the Lower Half of the Screen
ChessSamarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead, and an Advertisement Filling the Lower Half of the ScreenIt was near dawn in a bedroom in Mymensingh. Outside the window, mist was...
ChessSamarkand Round 7: An Advertisement Beneath the Headline, and the Arithmetic of a Single Match PointStart with a number. Start with a story and the reader moves on momentum; a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an Unfinished NNUE-Era ClaimSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an...
ChessSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point Apart — and a Report With No Player NamedThe headline is clean. Samarkand, women's section, Round 7, China versus...
ChessNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri Lilov's 'The Right King Road' CourseNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri...
ChessSamarkand's Eight-Way Tie and ChessBase Magazine #225: An Audit of the ReceiptThe headline arrived first; the table never followed it. After four rounds at...
ChessSavitha Shri's 5/5 and the Depth Below the Top Boards: What India's Women's Team Is Really Built OnForty-seven moves, and the round-six game was over. On board four an...
ChessSamarkand's Silent Round Six: Yom Kippur, Consent-Based Scheduling and the Structural Gap in the Chess OlympiadHook: The Board Where No Move Was Played September 21, 2026, a Monday. Round...
ChessAn Autopsy of the Scotch: A Phantom Headline and the Commercial Cycle of Opening TheoryIn the 2026 World Championship, Garry Kasparov chose an opening that had long...
ChessLosing +2 With 30 Minutes Left: Why Nihal Sarin's Collapse Is a Chess-Injury Case StudyThree moves. Thirty minutes still on the clock, and a position roughly two...
ChessA World Champion on Board Four: How India's 5/5 Should Be ReadBefore I opened the Round Five scoresheet last Sunday, I stopped at the lineu...
ChessSixty Minutes Against the Scotch, and a Phantom Name: The Open Window of the Opening IndustryTwo in the morning, a bedroom in Mymensingh. Two windows open on my desk: a...
ChessSamarkand Round 7: An Advertisement Beneath the Headline, and the Arithmetic of a Single Match PointStart with a number. Start with a story and the reader moves on momentum; a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an Unfinished NNUE-Era ClaimSamarkand in the Headline, Bayonet on the Bill: A King's Indian DVD and an...
ChessSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point Apart — and a Report With No Player NamedThe headline is clean. Samarkand, women's section, Round 7, China versus...
ChessNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri Lilov's 'The Right King Road' CourseNew Direction in Chess System Opening Preparation: Analysis of IM Valeri...
ChessSamarkand's Eight-Way Tie and ChessBase Magazine #225: An Audit of the ReceiptThe headline arrived first; the table never followed it. After four rounds at...
ChessSavitha Shri's 5/5 and the Depth Below the Top Boards: What India's Women's Team Is Really Built OnForty-seven moves, and the round-six game was over. On board four an...
ChessSamarkand's Silent Round Six: Yom Kippur, Consent-Based Scheduling and the Structural Gap in the Chess OlympiadHook: The Board Where No Move Was Played September 21, 2026, a Monday. Round...
ChessAn Autopsy of the Scotch: A Phantom Headline and the Commercial Cycle of Opening TheoryIn the 2026 World Championship, Garry Kasparov chose an opening that had long...
ChessLosing +2 With 30 Minutes Left: Why Nihal Sarin's Collapse Is a Chess-Injury Case StudyThree moves. Thirty minutes still on the clock, and a position roughly two...
ChessA World Champion on Board Four: How India's 5/5 Should Be ReadBefore I opened the Round Five scoresheet last Sunday, I stopped at the lineu...
ChessSixty Minutes Against the Scotch, and a Phantom Name: The Open Window of the Opening IndustryTwo in the morning, a bedroom in Mymensingh. Two windows open on my desk: a...