Chess
Eight Names, One Score in Samarkand: Where the Scoreboard Is Actually a Preparation Ledger
What the Samarkand Table Didn't Hold: 9...a5, the Bayonet Attack, and an Orphaned Headline
Samarkand Round 7, One Match Point, and the Page Nobody Ever Commissioned
The Scotch, Kasparov's 2026, and a Story Sold in the Wrapper of a Match Report
Thirty Minutes, +2 and Three Moves: India's Loss to Uzbekistan and the Ledger Behind Naming Nihal Sarin Player of the Day
What the Samarkand Table Didn't Hold: 9...a5, the Bayonet Attack, and an Orphaned HeadlineLast night I opened the file for one reason — to look at the round-seven...
Samarkand Round 7, One Match Point, and the Page Nobody Ever CommissionedHook — a headline that never read its own body Round 7 of the women's team...
Eight Names, One Score in Samarkand: Where the Scoreboard Is Actually a Preparation LedgerTwo fifteen in the morning. A spreadsheet open on a laptop in a Mumbai flat....
The Scotch, Kasparov's 2026, and a Story Sold in the Wrapper of a Match ReportThe headline landed on my desk one morning: Uzbekistan beat India to take the...
Thirty Minutes, +2 and Three Moves: India's Loss to Uzbekistan and the Ledger Behind Naming Nihal Sarin Player of the DayThere were still thirty minutes on the clock. I was watching the live moves...
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, Plus Two on the Board: Nihal Sarin's Three Moves and the Arithmetic of Olympiad Team ScoringHook: What Was on the Clock, and What Was Not There was more than plus two on...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Engine Data: A New Black Repertoire at the Side Door of 1.d4 d5Hook: Where the Clock Delivers Mate Last December I marked exactly one board ...
Samarkand Round 7, One Match Point, and the Page Nobody Ever CommissionedHook — a headline that never read its own body Round 7 of the women's team...
Eight Names, One Score in Samarkand: Where the Scoreboard Is Actually a Preparation LedgerTwo fifteen in the morning. A spreadsheet open on a laptop in a Mumbai flat....
The Scotch, Kasparov's 2026, and a Story Sold in the Wrapper of a Match ReportThe headline landed on my desk one morning: Uzbekistan beat India to take the...
Thirty Minutes, +2 and Three Moves: India's Loss to Uzbekistan and the Ledger Behind Naming Nihal Sarin Player of the DayThere were still thirty minutes on the clock. I was watching the live moves...
Thirty Minutes on the Clock, Plus Two on the Board: Nihal Sarin's Three Moves and the Arithmetic of Olympiad Team ScoringHook: What Was on the Clock, and What Was Not There was more than plus two on...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Engine Data: A New Black Repertoire at the Side Door of 1.d4 d5Hook: Where the Clock Delivers Mate Last December I marked exactly one board ...