Chess
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Empty Column: Auditing the Prison Chess Championship Ledger2026-10-25On the morning of 13 May 2026, a number flashed on FIDE’s calendar: 77....
ChessAn IM at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance, Seven Rounds, and a Date That Doesn't Add Up2026-10-25In the final round she had the black pieces. The game opened from a gambit...
ChessPrague 2026: 27 Miniatures That Hold Chess's Most Honest Syllabus2026-10-25There is a line on the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225: “27 highly...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Prison-Chess Ledger Nobody Can Reconcile2026-10-25The FIDE note landed in mid-May 2026. Seventy-seven teams. Five continents....
An IM at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance, Seven Rounds, and a Date That Doesn't Add UpIn the final round she had the black pieces. The game opened from a gambit...
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures That Hold Chess's Most Honest SyllabusThere is a line on the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225: “27 highly...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Prison-Chess Ledger Nobody Can ReconcileThe FIDE note landed in mid-May 2026. Seventy-seven teams. Five continents....
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles and the Arithmetic of One MoveNetaji Indoor Stadium, November 2026. When Viswanathan Anand thought, the pit...
An IM Norm at Eleven: The Scorecard Survives, the Calendar Doesn't YetBoard one, seven rounds, 5.5 points. Five wins, one draw, one loss. A...
Auditing a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Missing DateSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Eleven to twelve minutes per cluster. And...
Wesley So Beats Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess ChampionshipAt 1 a.m., the Saint Louis Chess Club became a phone screen and a prayer. The...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Empty Column: Auditing the Prison Chess Championship LedgerOn the morning of 13 May 2026, a number flashed on FIDE’s calendar: 77....
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet That Never Left the PrisonOn the morning of 13 May 2026 I opened an old notebook to the page with "214"...
A 60-Minute Gambit, A 2600 Fantasy: The Elephant Gambit Course and Chess's 'Surprise-Weapon' EconomyHook A product landing page holds three things at once: the headline reads...
Rachel Li in the Headline, 1...d5 in the Body: Auditing a File Where the Result Was MissingI opened the file under Rachel Li's name and closed it holding an advertiseme...
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures That Hold Chess's Most Honest SyllabusThere is a line on the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225: “27 highly...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Prison-Chess Ledger Nobody Can ReconcileThe FIDE note landed in mid-May 2026. Seventy-seven teams. Five continents....
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, Ten Opening Articles and the Arithmetic of One MoveNetaji Indoor Stadium, November 2026. When Viswanathan Anand thought, the pit...
An IM Norm at Eleven: The Scorecard Survives, the Calendar Doesn't YetBoard one, seven rounds, 5.5 points. Five wins, one draw, one loss. A...
Auditing a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Missing DateSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Eleven to twelve minutes per cluster. And...
Wesley So Beats Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess ChampionshipAt 1 a.m., the Saint Louis Chess Club became a phone screen and a prayer. The...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Empty Column: Auditing the Prison Chess Championship LedgerOn the morning of 13 May 2026, a number flashed on FIDE’s calendar: 77....
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet That Never Left the PrisonOn the morning of 13 May 2026 I opened an old notebook to the page with "214"...
A 60-Minute Gambit, A 2600 Fantasy: The Elephant Gambit Course and Chess's 'Surprise-Weapon' EconomyHook A product landing page holds three things at once: the headline reads...
Rachel Li in the Headline, 1...d5 in the Body: Auditing a File Where the Result Was MissingI opened the file under Rachel Li's name and closed it holding an advertiseme...