Chess
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead, and the Advertisement Buried Under the Headline
Samarkand in the Headline, a Bayonet Attack in the Body: A Source-Integrity Audit
Three Moves From Victory: Nihal Sarin's Collapse and the Cruel Arithmetic of Team Scoring
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Plan Each: The 1.d4 Sideline Boom and Black's Ledger
One Match Point in the Headline, Ten Paragraphs of Advertising in the Body: How Samarkand Round 7 Hollowed Out the Chess Information Layer
The Silent Boards of Samarkand: How Women's Chess Became Ad Inventory
One Match Point in the Headline, Ten Paragraphs of Advertising in the Body: How Samarkand Round 7 Hollowed Out the Chess Information LayerWhere the Headline Is a Position and the Body Is a Different Game I stopped a...
The Silent Boards of Samarkand: How Women's Chess Became Ad InventoryTbilisi, September 2026. A 128-player knockout at the FIDE World Cup,...
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Headline and the Economics of Chess CoverageAround eleven at night last week, in my room in Mymensingh, I clicked a link....
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead, and the Advertisement Buried Under the HeadlineIt was 1:40 a.m. in Penang. Sitting on the balcony chair, I stopped scrolling...
The Scotch Game: One Phantom Name, One Product Page, and Three Questions of ProvenanceLast week I opened a page while digging through the archive. The headline rea...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Missing Baseline: A Diagnostic Reading of a Black Repertoire Against 1.d4 d5 SidelinesI was watching an online club league broadcast from Sri Lanka. Black, rated...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Bayonet Attack in the Body: A Source-Integrity AuditLast week a document landed in my filter. The headline was unambiguous —...
The Ledger of Empty Boards: Israel's Round 6 Forfeit in Samarkand and the FIDE Rule Nobody ReadThe clocks at the hall beside Samarkand's Savitsky Hotel never started. On...
What the Camera Missed: Bangladesh Chess's Seventeen-Year Pipeline and a Silent BudgetIn September 2026, inside the Batumi Olympiad hall, there was one table no...
Seven Openings, Six Videos: Who Ends Up Doing the Arithmetic for Black?In the old chess room at Purana Paltan, eleven boards were in play and the...
Three Moves From Victory: Nihal Sarin's Collapse and the Cruel Arithmetic of Team ScoringThe clock still had thirty minutes on it. The evaluation beside the board sai...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Plan Each: The 1.d4 Sideline Boom and Black's LedgerThe First Receipt A public product page from 2026. Seven opening names. Six...