Chess
A Samarkand Headline, a Fritz Advertisement: The Round Where the Chess Story Vanished2026-09-24Round seven. Samarkand. Women's team chess. China drew with Kazakhstan, and t...
Chess Olympiad: The Collapse With 30 Minutes Left, and Why India Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After a Defeat2026-09-24The clock still showed thirty minutes. The engine said +2. In the corner of a...
Samarkand Round 7: One Headline, Eight Advertisements, and What's Left of the Chess2026-09-24The headline was short and exact: Samarkand, Round 7, women's section — China...
Eight Names, One Score in Samarkand: The Picture No Camera Took2026-09-24After round four in Samarkand I was sitting at my laptop in Saint Petersburg,...
Samarkand Round 7: One Headline, Eight Advertisements, and What's Left of the ChessThe headline was short and exact: Samarkand, Round 7, women's section — China...
A Samarkand Headline, a Fritz Advertisement: The Round Where the Chess Story VanishedRound seven. Samarkand. Women's team chess. China drew with Kazakhstan, and t...
Eight Names, One Score in Samarkand: The Picture No Camera TookAfter round four in Samarkand I was sitting at my laptop in Saint Petersburg,...
The Ledger That Stayed Empty: Chess Records, Blockchain, and the Arithmetic of a Null ResultLast week a file landed on my desk with the word "analysis" on it. I opened i...
Sixty-Four Squares, An Empty Ledger: Blockchain and the Lost Paperwork of Bangladeshi ChessIt took me seven minutes to open the steel cupboard in the federation buildin...
Three Moves, One Board, One Match: Why India Still Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After LosingThe clock still showed thirty minutes. On the board, playing Black, India's...
Savitha Shri's 5/5: The Real Strength of India's Women's Chess Team or a Calculation of Rotation Risk?Five rounds over. Five consecutive wins. A 19-year-old International Master o...
Chess Olympiad: The Collapse With 30 Minutes Left, and Why India Named Nihal Sarin Player of the Day After a DefeatThe clock still showed thirty minutes. The engine said +2. In the corner of a...