Chess
The Carlsen Claim Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, a Tempo Deficit, and One Unverified Entry
Seven Boards, One Emptied Savings Account: Samarkand's 7/7 and the Funding Ledger of Indian Chess
A Headline Sells a Result, a Body Sells a Course: Auditing the Samarkand Round 8 File
The File Arrived, but Samarkand Wasn't in It
The File Arrived, but Samarkand Wasn't in ItLate at night, a file landed on my second-hand laptop in a Mymensingh bedroom...
The Carlsen Claim Ledger: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, a Tempo Deficit, and One Unverified EntryWednesday evening, Mumbai. A thirteen-point promotional blurb landed on my...
The Headline Was Samarkand, the Board Was Scandinavian: A Tactical Autopsy of a Mismatched FeedIt was twelve minutes past two in the morning in Dublin. I was scrolling a fe...
The Sword of Damocles: A 60-Minute Course and a Country's Empty Board1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5. In three moves the black queen has moved twice...
Seven Wins From the Reserve Board: The Ledger and the Emotion in Savitha Shri's StoryFive hours. Same Thursday round at the Samarkand Olympiad, two different...
Seven Boards, One Emptied Savings Account: Samarkand's 7/7 and the Funding Ledger of Indian ChessThat session in Samarkand ran nearly five hours. In the same round two Indian...
‘Sword of Damocles’: The 60-Minute Promise of the Scandinavian Defense — and the Fine Print the Ad Won’t Show YouFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned that the stadium is only a screen. In...
Bodhana in the Headline, an Elephant in the Body: Anatomy of a Chess Article's GapI opened the link at half past eleven at night, on a balcony in Penang, lit b...
Bodhana's Name, Martin's Gambit: A Technical Reading of a Headline MismatchThe headline in the feed read "Bodhana Sivanandan: Chess and other passions."...
A Headline Sells a Result, a Body Sells a Course: Auditing the Samarkand Round 8 FileTwo-ten in the morning in Moscow. The file is named “Samarkand R8 (open)”. Th...
Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense: A Sword or an Insurance Policy — and the Load the Amateur Brain Never CountsI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than the tackl...