Chess
Eight Names in Samarkand and One Magazine's Ledger
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Gap, and the Lonely Body of a Headline
The Scotch Revival, a Name I Refused to Print, and the Invisible Ledger of Chess Publishing
India's 5/5: The Points Came From the Last Board, the Fatigue Is in the First
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, +2 on the Board, Three Moves Gone: Nihal's Collapse and the Arithmetic of Team Scoring
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Gap, and the Lonely Body of a HeadlineLate last week I picked up a headline about Round 7 of the women's team...
Eight Names in Samarkand and One Magazine's LedgerI opened the crosstable after four rounds and the first thing I noticed was n...
The Scotch Revival, a Name I Refused to Print, and the Invisible Ledger of Chess PublishingTwo tabs are open on my table in Rangpur. In one, the engine is checking a...
India's 5/5: The Points Came From the Last Board, the Fatigue Is in the FirstI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and those numbers confessed more than any...
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, +2 on the Board, Three Moves Gone: Nihal's Collapse and the Arithmetic of Team ScoringThe night the game ended I saved the screenshot of the clock, not the...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: Where Black's Preparation Ledger Doesn't BalanceSix videos. Seven openings. One plan per opening. The 32nd instalment of the...
Sixty Minutes of Defence, and a Ghost in the HeadlinePast midnight in a Mymensingh bedroom, a secondhand laptop holds one page ope...
Egon Mattaaq, the Scotch Game, and the 60-Minute Ledger: An Account of a Headline-Body MismatchThe first public xG model was not a prophecy. It was a receipt. In May 2026, ...