Chess
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and an Unfinished Promise: The Technical Price of a Najdorf Update
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures, Four Generations, and the Language of Chess Spoken Between the Moves
An 11-Year-Old IM Claim: 2465 Performance, 5.5/7 — and a Record Still Awaiting Verification
77 Teams, Five Continents, Two Names for One Event: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess Championship Ledger
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and the New Price of Opening TheoryTwenty-seven miniatures. In one issue, inside one section labelled Special. I...
Small Games, Large Market: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Chess's Training EconomyThe clock stopped in the Prague tournament hall and the game was over in...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and an Unfinished Promise: The Technical Price of a Najdorf UpdateThe loudest sound on the third floor of a club on Vasilyevsky Island in Saint...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Issue 225: Where the Chess Training Economy Actually SitsIt was 1:40 a.m. in Pune and the notation was still scrolling. Twenty-two...
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures, Four Generations, and the Language of Chess Spoken Between the MovesThe wall clock was ticking in that Prague hall, and directly beneath it sat a...
A 2,465 Performance Rating at Eleven — and the Unsettled Arithmetic of an IM NormI watched the round of 23 October from a laptop in Delhi — board one, black...
An 11-Year-Old IM Claim: 2465 Performance, 5.5/7 — and a Record Still Awaiting VerificationBoard one, seven rounds, 5.5 points. In the final round she had black against...
A 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Five Line Clusters and One Unanswered QuestionLast week at a club in Mumbai I watched a 1650-rated player drilling Najdorf...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Two Names for One Event: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess Championship Ledger13 May 2026. A tournament begins, and its name is still unsettled. The FIDE...
Sixty Minutes on the Najdorf: Where Daniel King’s Update Has Arithmetic, and Where It Has SilenceIn 2026 the FIDE Online Olympiad final was declared jointly shared between...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Missing Score Sheet: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026 a press release landed in my inbox, and the fir...
77 Teams, Five Continents and Four Empty Columns: A Data Audit of the First Continental Chess Championship for PrisonersI keep a spreadsheet called 'event_ledger'. Seven columns: dates, field size,...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Named Players: The Ledger of the Prisoners' Chess Championship That the Scoreboard Cannot ShowOn 13 May 2026 a chess tournament began with 77 teams from five continents,...
Small Games, Large Market: Prague 2026's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Chess's Training EconomyThe clock stopped in the Prague tournament hall and the game was over in...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and an Unfinished Promise: The Technical Price of a Najdorf UpdateThe loudest sound on the third floor of a club on Vasilyevsky Island in Saint...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Issue 225: Where the Chess Training Economy Actually SitsIt was 1:40 a.m. in Pune and the notation was still scrolling. Twenty-two...
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures, Four Generations, and the Language of Chess Spoken Between the MovesThe wall clock was ticking in that Prague hall, and directly beneath it sat a...
A 2,465 Performance Rating at Eleven — and the Unsettled Arithmetic of an IM NormI watched the round of 23 October from a laptop in Delhi — board one, black...
An 11-Year-Old IM Claim: 2465 Performance, 5.5/7 — and a Record Still Awaiting VerificationBoard one, seven rounds, 5.5 points. In the final round she had black against...
A 60-Minute Najdorf Update: Five Line Clusters and One Unanswered QuestionLast week at a club in Mumbai I watched a 1650-rated player drilling Najdorf...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Two Names for One Event: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess Championship Ledger13 May 2026. A tournament begins, and its name is still unsettled. The FIDE...
Sixty Minutes on the Najdorf: Where Daniel King’s Update Has Arithmetic, and Where It Has SilenceIn 2026 the FIDE Online Olympiad final was declared jointly shared between...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Missing Score Sheet: Auditing the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026 a press release landed in my inbox, and the fir...
77 Teams, Five Continents and Four Empty Columns: A Data Audit of the First Continental Chess Championship for PrisonersI keep a spreadsheet called 'event_ledger'. Seven columns: dates, field size,...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Named Players: The Ledger of the Prisoners' Chess Championship That the Scoreboard Cannot ShowOn 13 May 2026 a chess tournament began with 77 teams from five continents,...