Chess
9...a5 and a Samarkand Headline: Testing the Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' in the Engine Era — and What the Ledger Says
One Match Point in Samarkand, Women's Chess, and the Headline With No Board Underneath
Five Grandmasters, One Unopened Folder: Why Bangladesh's Chess Pipeline Never Switched On
Samarkand’s Empty Room: A One-Match-Point Lead, Three Lines of News, and Eleven Paragraphs of Advertising
The Ledger Stays Half-Empty: Auditing India's 'Player of the Day' After the Uzbekistan Loss at the Chess Olympiad
A File Named Samarkand, Filled Only With Scotch: The Market for Defence and the Ledger
Chess9...a5 and a Samarkand Headline: Testing the Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' in the Engine Era — and What the Ledger SaysI opened the file at eleven on a Tuesday night in Dublin. Dhaka was at four i...
ChessOne Match Point in Samarkand, Women's Chess, and the Headline With No Board UnderneathAt 2:47 in the morning in Moscow, snow outside the window and nothing but...
ChessA File Named Samarkand, Filled Only With Scotch: The Market for Defence and the LedgerThere is a folder on my laptop called "Incomplete." Inside it sit seven years...
ChessFive Grandmasters, One Unopened Folder: Why Bangladesh's Chess Pipeline Never Switched OnNight nine on the Leonine Chess Club stream, and Dhaka's clock has just gone...
ChessSamarkand’s Empty Room: A One-Match-Point Lead, Three Lines of News, and Eleven Paragraphs of AdvertisingThe steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still holds the echo of a crowd that neve...
ChessThe Empty Board in Samarkand: Yom Kippur, Eight Lost Board Points, and an Old Gap Buried in Chess RegulationsThe Empty Board in Samarkand: Yom Kippur, Eight Lost Board Points, and an Old...
ChessThe Scotch Ledger: A Phantom Debutant, a Course Advertisement, and a 2026 ReceiptTwo different ledgers were stitched into one page, and the seam never tore. T...
ChessThe Ledger Stays Half-Empty: Auditing India's 'Player of the Day' After the Uzbekistan Loss at the Chess OlympiadSrinath Narayanan's post contains exactly two integers: '+2', and '30 minutes...
ChessAn Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand: Eight Results, One Product, and the Accounting of Chess Opening ScienceEight names sit on the same score after Round 4 in Samarkand. Look at the...
ChessEight Names, One Score in Samarkand: The Leaderboard That Counts Chess, Not BodiesEight Names, One Score in Samarkand: The Leaderboard That Counts Chess, Not...
ChessThirty Minutes Left, +2 Ahead, Three Moves to Collapse: How One Player's Blunder Becomes a Whole Match's FateAbout two points up on the board, thirty minutes still on the clock, and...
ChessThe Board-Order Ledger: What India's 3.0–1.0 Actually CountsThe scoreboard for Round 5 said 3.0–1.0, and the wire services printed exactl...
ChessOne Match Point in Samarkand, Women's Chess, and the Headline With No Board UnderneathAt 2:47 in the morning in Moscow, snow outside the window and nothing but...
ChessA File Named Samarkand, Filled Only With Scotch: The Market for Defence and the LedgerThere is a folder on my laptop called "Incomplete." Inside it sit seven years...
ChessFive Grandmasters, One Unopened Folder: Why Bangladesh's Chess Pipeline Never Switched OnNight nine on the Leonine Chess Club stream, and Dhaka's clock has just gone...
ChessSamarkand’s Empty Room: A One-Match-Point Lead, Three Lines of News, and Eleven Paragraphs of AdvertisingThe steel cupboard in Purana Paltan still holds the echo of a crowd that neve...
ChessThe Empty Board in Samarkand: Yom Kippur, Eight Lost Board Points, and an Old Gap Buried in Chess RegulationsThe Empty Board in Samarkand: Yom Kippur, Eight Lost Board Points, and an Old...
ChessThe Scotch Ledger: A Phantom Debutant, a Course Advertisement, and a 2026 ReceiptTwo different ledgers were stitched into one page, and the seam never tore. T...
ChessThe Ledger Stays Half-Empty: Auditing India's 'Player of the Day' After the Uzbekistan Loss at the Chess OlympiadSrinath Narayanan's post contains exactly two integers: '+2', and '30 minutes...
ChessAn Eight-Way Tie in Samarkand: Eight Results, One Product, and the Accounting of Chess Opening ScienceEight names sit on the same score after Round 4 in Samarkand. Look at the...
ChessEight Names, One Score in Samarkand: The Leaderboard That Counts Chess, Not BodiesEight Names, One Score in Samarkand: The Leaderboard That Counts Chess, Not...
ChessThirty Minutes Left, +2 Ahead, Three Moves to Collapse: How One Player's Blunder Becomes a Whole Match's FateAbout two points up on the board, thirty minutes still on the clock, and...
ChessThe Board-Order Ledger: What India's 3.0–1.0 Actually CountsThe scoreboard for Round 5 said 3.0–1.0, and the wire services printed exactl...