Chess
Seven Games, a 2465 Performance Rating and an Unfinished Date: The Ledger Behind an 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Player's IM Claim2026-10-25A tournament table read 5.5/7. Directly beneath it, in the performance-rating...
An 11-Year-Old International Master: The Scoreboard Is Clean, the Receipts Are Still Pending2026-10-25Final round, October 23. Board one. Black pieces. Across the table, WIM...
Reviewing the Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and the Real Cost of a Repertoire2026-10-25Sixty minutes. Five line clusters. One English-language video download with a...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Budget With No Name: Who Is Keeping the Books on FIDE's Prison Chess Championship2026-10-24The document that reached my desk carried a date range — 13 to 23 May 2026 —...
Elephant Gambit, a Najdorf Label and the Decaying Return on Novelty: Auditing a 60-Minute Chess Course2026-10-26A promotional page for a chess course landed on my desk in Delhi last week. T...
Elephant Gambit, a Najdorf Label and the Decaying Return on Novelty: Auditing a 60-Minute Chess CourseA promotional page for a chess course landed on my desk in Delhi last week. T...
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating — and a Title Not Yet SignedBoard one, seventh and final round, black pieces. The report does not name th...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Who Daniel King's Update Course Is Really ForThe file opened at eleven at night and by twelve-ten the last slide was...
Seven Games, a 2465 Performance Rating and an Unfinished Date: The Ledger Behind an 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Player's IM ClaimA tournament table read 5.5/7. Directly beneath it, in the performance-rating...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Board-side Notes on Daniel King's FritzTrainer UpdateThe review carried no date. No byline. No name of a paper, a magazine or a...
11 Years, 7 Months, 16 Days: The Gambit, the Pawn, and the Empty Space Behind an IM ClaimI opened the game three times. The first time for the result: board one, blac...
Prague's 27 Miniatures and 10 Opening Articles: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225I did not turn the first page on this desk in Ahmedabad. I set the booklet of...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections: The Real Diagram Is Missing From the Prisoners' Chess Championship ScoresheetI opened FIDE's Chess for Freedom page on the morning of 13 May 2026 looking...
Prague 2026 and 27 Miniatures: The Ledger Buried Inside ChessBase Magazine #225In a tournament hall in Prague there is a moment no scoresheet records: a...
An 11-Year-Old International Master: The Scoreboard Is Clean, the Receipts Are Still PendingFinal round, October 23. Board one. Black pieces. Across the table, WIM...
A Gambit, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and the Date That Outran Its Own HeadlineThe final round, board one. Black pieces. A gambit line whose name appears...
Reviewing the Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and the Real Cost of a RepertoireSixty minutes. Five line clusters. One English-language video download with a...
The Board Behind the Wall: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Tournament With No PGNEleven days. 13 to 23 May 2026. Seventy-seven teams. Five continents. Three...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Budget With No Name: Who Is Keeping the Books on FIDE's Prison Chess ChampionshipThe document that reached my desk carried a date range — 13 to 23 May 2026 —...