Chess
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: A Ledger on Verifying Chess Sources
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: The Ledger the Press Room Never Balanced
Diagnosing 9...a5: The Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' and the Autopsy of a Headline Mismatch
Egon Mattaaq's Olympiad Debut? The Name That Isn't in the Story, and the Fracture in the Information Blockchain
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: A Ledger on Verifying Chess SourcesTwo pages sit side by side on my desk. The top one carries a headline —...
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: The Ledger the Press Room Never BalancedI opened the file at 2:40 a.m. The headline said Samarkand Open, round seven;...
Diagnosing 9...a5: The Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' and the Autopsy of a Headline MismatchLast month a chess product landed on my desk. Its first page carried a headli...
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Body: Auditing 9...a5 Against the Bayonet AttackAt half past three in the morning, in a flat in Mumbai, I opened a file. The...
Samarkand Round 7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead — And a Headline With No Chess Inside ItHalf past eleven at night. A Delhi flat, the cold light of a laptop, tea stai...
Chess Olympiad: Why India picked Nihal Sarin as player of the day despite defeat in Uzbekistan clashThirty minutes on the clock. Plus two on the board. Nihal Sarin was sitting...
Top Boards Draw, Bottom Boards Win: What Savitha Shri's 5/5 Actually Signals About India's Women's TeamRound six. Board four. Savitha Shri with the white pieces, facing Rose Atwell...
The Silence of Yom Kippur: Israel's Double Forfeit at the 2026 Olympiad Is a Governance Stress TestThe biggest story of Round 6 at the 2026 Chess Olympiad was a silence. Israel...
Egon Mattaaq's Olympiad Debut? The Name That Isn't in the Story, and the Fracture in the Information BlockchainThe headline grabs the eye: 'Egon Mattaaq: His tournament debut at the...
The Poland Gap: A Round 5 Empty Board and India Women's LedgerIn the July heat of the Chennai hall the tables were being laid out one by on...
Samarkand in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: The Ledger the Press Room Never BalancedI opened the file at 2:40 a.m. The headline said Samarkand Open, round seven;...
Diagnosing 9...a5: The Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' and the Autopsy of a Headline MismatchLast month a chess product landed on my desk. Its first page carried a headli...
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Body: Auditing 9...a5 Against the Bayonet AttackAt half past three in the morning, in a flat in Mumbai, I opened a file. The...
Samarkand Round 7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, a One-Match-Point Lead — And a Headline With No Chess Inside ItHalf past eleven at night. A Delhi flat, the cold light of a laptop, tea stai...
Chess Olympiad: Why India picked Nihal Sarin as player of the day despite defeat in Uzbekistan clashThirty minutes on the clock. Plus two on the board. Nihal Sarin was sitting...
Top Boards Draw, Bottom Boards Win: What Savitha Shri's 5/5 Actually Signals About India's Women's TeamRound six. Board four. Savitha Shri with the white pieces, facing Rose Atwell...
The Silence of Yom Kippur: Israel's Double Forfeit at the 2026 Olympiad Is a Governance Stress TestThe biggest story of Round 6 at the 2026 Chess Olympiad was a silence. Israel...
Egon Mattaaq's Olympiad Debut? The Name That Isn't in the Story, and the Fracture in the Information BlockchainThe headline grabs the eye: 'Egon Mattaaq: His tournament debut at the...
The Poland Gap: A Round 5 Empty Board and India Women's LedgerIn the July heat of the Chennai hall the tables were being laid out one by on...