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Sixty Minutes of Najdorf and One FIDE Headline: Two Documents That Never Met2026-09-26A download file. The label reads ‘60m English’. Inside, five line clusters—6....
5.e5!: A Small Explosion and the Big Empty Room2026-09-26The coffee ring on the printed scoresheet in my Khulna flat dried black right...
A Blockchain Question in Chess Theory: Is the 9...a5 DVD a Real Antidote, or an Old Move in a New Wrapper?2026-09-27On a damp table at Purana Paltan's tea stall lay a DVD case. In the sunlight,...
5.e5! — The Price of a Pawn and the Physiology of the Club Board2026-09-27A pawn moves from e4 to e5 in two seconds. The scoresheet records 5.e5! with ...
Auditing 5.e5: A Grandmaster Weapon, a Missing Game, and the Club Market Ledger2026-09-26From the Moscow desk. I ran the query: 4.d4 exd4 5.e5. The position came back...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Fracture Line Beneath India's Gold Rush2026-09-26At the Samarkand playing hall the clock on Round 9 had crossed the sixth hour...
ChessA Blockchain Question in Chess Theory: Is the 9...a5 DVD a Real Antidote, or an Old Move in a New Wrapper?On a damp table at Purana Paltan's tea stall lay a DVD case. In the sunlight,...
Chess5.e5! — The Price of a Pawn and the Physiology of the Club BoardA pawn moves from e4 to e5 in two seconds. The scoresheet records 5.e5! with ...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf and One FIDE Headline: Two Documents That Never MetA download file. The label reads ‘60m English’. Inside, five line clusters—6....
Chess5.e5!: A Small Explosion and the Big Empty RoomThe coffee ring on the printed scoresheet in my Khulna flat dried black right...
ChessAuditing 5.e5: A Grandmaster Weapon, a Missing Game, and the Club Market LedgerFrom the Moscow desk. I ran the query: 4.d4 exd4 5.e5. The position came back...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Fracture Line Beneath India's Gold RushAt the Samarkand playing hall the clock on Round 9 had crossed the sixth hour...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's Escape and the Ledger Beneath India's Gold DreamThe clock in Samarkand had gone past five hours on board four, and the positi...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and the Transfer Window of Chess TrainingThe file was labelled Samarkand. Round eight, women's section, China leading...
ChessSeven Games, Seven Wins: Where the Notebook and the Tape Disagree in SamarkandThe round lasted nearly five hours inside the Samarkand hall, and the last tw...
ChessSeven Wins and a Father's Resigned Job: Savitha Shri's Olympiad and the Ledger Nobody ReconcilesThe article opens with a tactical anomaly from the same Thursday round at the...
ChessSamarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of a MismatchI opened the file at almost two in the morning last week. Before that, my...
ChessThe Samarkand Result and the Scandinavian Course: The Empty Square in Chess NewsThe headline was clean, almost telegraphic: Samarkand, Round 8, open section ...