Chess
Samarkand Round 1: Nine 4-0 Scorelines and What the Standings Conceal
Samarkand and the Empty Square Before Move One: When the Champion Has No Room
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Holds a Double Crown While the Broadcast Gap Stays Open
ChessBase August: the Petroff Update, Two Positional Courses, and a Labeling Error
Samarkand Round 1: Nine 4-0 Scorelines and What the Standings ConcealSamarkand, the opening round of the women's team event. Nine of the top ten...
9...a5 and 'a night unlike any other': rereading an opening promiseThree in the morning in Binh Duong. The screen is still lit, the coffee long...
The Money Sits Outside the Board: India's Chess Contract Season and the Spending Nobody AuditsChennai, August 2026. In a small third-floor meeting room of a private school...
ChessBase August 2026: The Petroff Returns, Positional Play Rises, and the Race for Training ContentThe game ended after 41 moves. When I rewound the footage to check every move...
Samarkand and the Empty Square Before Move One: When the Champion Has No RoomSamarkand, one September afternoon. The Indian chess team lands at the airpor...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Two Crowns, and the Fifth Board Nobody WatchesOn 22 September 2026 in Samarkand, no game will be played. The only rest day ...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Holds a Double Crown While the Broadcast Gap Stays OpenOn 15 September 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, round one of the Chess Olympi...
The Gap Before the Peak: When a Coach Declares His Players 'Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad'A sentence can be spoken in four seconds, but verifying it requires hundreds ...
Chess Olympiad 2026: The Torch Reaches Samarkand, Three Titles Do NotIn the short report on the handover of the 2026 Chess Olympiad torch, one...
ChessBase August: the Petroff Update, Two Positional Courses, and a Labeling ErrorMy file contains two headlines for the same article. The first says: "Chess...
The 5.e5 Move in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon or the Trap of an 'Easy-to-Learn' Promise?Da Nang, a Saturday evening late in the month. In the small back room of a...
The 5.e5 Move and the Shortcut Repertoire: What Sits Behind the Promise Made to Club PlayersOn a Thursday evening at a chess cafe on Malleshwaram Road in Bangalore, a...
2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends the Double Crown and a Gap Nobody Has FilledIn the playing hall of a Chess Olympiad there is always one spare chair. Four...
Samarkand, the Night Before Round One: Champions Standing Outside Their Own DoorsI remember sitting for a long time in front of the screen one September night...
The Samarkand 2026 Hotel Crisis: When Operations Collapse Before the First MoveThe Indian team landed in Samarkand, and roughly five hours later team captai...
9...a5 and 'a night unlike any other': rereading an opening promiseThree in the morning in Binh Duong. The screen is still lit, the coffee long...
The Money Sits Outside the Board: India's Chess Contract Season and the Spending Nobody AuditsChennai, August 2026. In a small third-floor meeting room of a private school...
ChessBase August 2026: The Petroff Returns, Positional Play Rises, and the Race for Training ContentThe game ended after 41 moves. When I rewound the footage to check every move...
Samarkand and the Empty Square Before Move One: When the Champion Has No RoomSamarkand, one September afternoon. The Indian chess team lands at the airpor...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Two Crowns, and the Fifth Board Nobody WatchesOn 22 September 2026 in Samarkand, no game will be played. The only rest day ...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Holds a Double Crown While the Broadcast Gap Stays OpenOn 15 September 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, round one of the Chess Olympi...
The Gap Before the Peak: When a Coach Declares His Players 'Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad'A sentence can be spoken in four seconds, but verifying it requires hundreds ...
Chess Olympiad 2026: The Torch Reaches Samarkand, Three Titles Do NotIn the short report on the handover of the 2026 Chess Olympiad torch, one...
ChessBase August: the Petroff Update, Two Positional Courses, and a Labeling ErrorMy file contains two headlines for the same article. The first says: "Chess...
The 5.e5 Move in the Italian Game: A Practical Weapon or the Trap of an 'Easy-to-Learn' Promise?Da Nang, a Saturday evening late in the month. In the small back room of a...
The 5.e5 Move and the Shortcut Repertoire: What Sits Behind the Promise Made to Club PlayersOn a Thursday evening at a chess cafe on Malleshwaram Road in Bangalore, a...
2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends the Double Crown and a Gap Nobody Has FilledIn the playing hall of a Chess Olympiad there is always one spare chair. Four...
Samarkand, the Night Before Round One: Champions Standing Outside Their Own DoorsI remember sitting for a long time in front of the screen one September night...
The Samarkand 2026 Hotel Crisis: When Operations Collapse Before the First MoveThe Indian team landed in Samarkand, and roughly five hours later team captai...