Chess
Chess in the Headline, Advertising in the Body: The Samarkand Round 7 Women's Match
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Contradiction: A Technical Audit of a Black Plan-Repertoire Against 1.d4 d5 Sidelines
A Samarkand Headline on a DVD's Body: The Ledger of a Mismatch
What the Scoreboard Cannot See: The Women's Board in Samarkand and an Invisible Billboard
The Numbers Behind Naming Nihal Sarin Player of the Day Despite Chess Olympiad Defeat
The Board-4 Gambit Beneath India's 5/5: Is Placing Gukesh on the Last Board the New Chess War of the Olympiad?
Chess in the Headline, Advertising in the Body: The Samarkand Round 7 Women's MatchSamarkand, Round 7, women's section: China and Kazakhstan drew, and the leadi...
A Samarkand Headline on a DVD's Body: The Ledger of a MismatchOn a Wednesday afternoon I opened a link. The headline read: "Samarkand R7...
What the Scoreboard Cannot See: The Women's Board in Samarkand and an Invisible BillboardThe Round 7 standings sheet reached my phone wrapped inside an advertisement....
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Contradiction: A Technical Audit of a Black Plan-Repertoire Against 1.d4 d5 SidelinesTwo in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom. A secondhand laptop, and the gree...
The Numbers Behind Naming Nihal Sarin Player of the Day Despite Chess Olympiad DefeatEvery data point carries proof. Sometimes it's a goal, sometimes a transfer...
The Board-4 Gambit Beneath India's 5/5: Is Placing Gukesh on the Last Board the New Chess War of the Olympiad?In an equal position, Anish Giri offered a draw. Praggnanandhaa refused. This...
Empty Board, Burning Hash: A Null Chess Analysis Immortalised on the BlockchainA fully empty Stage-1 deconstruction output has been archived on the blockcha...
Seven Openings, Six Videos, One Plan Each: The Unequal Arithmetic of Black's Preparation After 1.d4The first rule I learned in the anchor chair was simple: open with a measurab...
The Samarkand Receipt: Yom Kippur, Zero Boards, and the Olympiad Rule Nobody WroteHook — The Clock That Never Started In the playing hall of the Savitsky Hotel...
The Anti-Scotch Sales Pitch and a Ghost Name in the DatabaseA page that sets two different truths side by side invites a reader to believ...
Sixty Minutes Against the Scotch and a Memory from 2026: The Information Asymmetry of Chess Education MarketsThe board sits at move twelve on the screen of a secondhand laptop in a bedro...