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ChessOne Headline, Another Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Gap in Chess's Information Chain2026-09-26Dublin, 2:07 in the morning. A wire item landed with a headline about...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 10 Opening Articles, 27 Miniatures — and a Title That Doesn't Match the File2026-09-26A file was labelled “Samarkand R8 (women): China lead with 15/16”. I opened i...
ChessSeven Wins in Samarkand and Three Years of Savings: How Savitha Shri's Reserve Board Opened Chess's Cost Ledger2026-09-26Hook: Two Kinds of Conversion on the Same Afternoon The Thursday round in...
ChessThe Exclamation Mark After 5.e5, and the Denominator Nobody Wrote Down2026-09-27It takes ten seconds to open the file labelled Game of the Week #740. The mov...
ChessFive Hours in a Lost Position, Then 54 Moves: Samarkand Round 9 and the Arithmetic of India's Single-Point Dependence2026-09-27Five hours. In the hall at Samarkand, in Round 9, sitting on Board 4, D Gukes...
ChessThe Exclamation Mark After 5.e5, and the Denominator Nobody Wrote DownIt takes ten seconds to open the file labelled Game of the Week #740. The mov...
ChessFive Hours in a Lost Position, Then 54 Moves: Samarkand Round 9 and the Arithmetic of India's Single-Point DependenceFive hours. In the hall at Samarkand, in Round 9, sitting on Board 4, D Gukes...
Chess54 Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape and the Ledger of India's Single-Point DependenceTwo in the morning in Dublin, five hours behind Samarkand, one board left on...
ChessFifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape and India's One-Point DependenceIn the Samarkand playing hall the light lay across a glass of water nobody ha...
ChessGukesh's 54-Move Escape in Samarkand, and the Uncomfortable Math of a Title DefenceIn Samarkand the clock had gone past five hours and nobody in the hall had...
ChessThe Gap Between Headline and Content: ChessBase Magazine #225, 27 Miniatures, and the Ledger of Bangladesh's Training MarketTwo in the morning in Mymensingh, two files open side by side on the laptop....
ChessOne Headline, Another Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Gap in Chess's Information ChainDublin, 2:07 in the morning. A wire item landed with a headline about...
ChessSword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Course, One Unverified Name, and a Country With Five Grandmasters1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5. Four moves, and Black's queen has taken up...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 10 Opening Articles, 27 Miniatures — and a Title That Doesn't Match the FileA file was labelled “Samarkand R8 (women): China lead with 15/16”. I opened i...
ChessSamarkand in the Title, Prague in the Pages: What I Found Trying to Balance a Chess Periodical's LedgerI opened the file for Samarkand." The title was explicit: women's section,...
Chess27 Miniatures and One Wrong Title: Who Actually Prices the Chess Training Economy?The title said Samarkand. Round eight, women's section, China leading with...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: A Samarkand Headline, Prague Content — The Real Fight Is in the Training MarketBefore I opened the file I had already sketched a mental scoresheet: tiebreak...