Chess
Carlsen's Name, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Unfinished Scandinavian Ledger
Three Queen Moves: The Tempo Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense and the One-Hour Promise
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Exhausted Savings: A Reckoning from Samarkand to Bangladesh
The Fifth Board in Samarkand: Savitha Shri, Her Father's Savings, and the Arithmetic of Seven Wins Nobody Wants to Audit
The Headline That Plays No Move: Samarkand Round 8, the Scandinavian Defense, and a Sixty-Minute Promise
Carlsen's Name, a Sixty-Minute Course, and the Unfinished Scandinavian LedgerA Claim Without a Source Last week a promotional link landed on my desk. Acro...
15/16 Versus 27 Miniatures: The Gap Between a Headline and Its File in the Chess MarketHook That morning I wrote 15/16 on the first page of my notebook. Samarkand,...
Three Queen Moves: The Tempo Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense and the One-Hour PromiseLast Friday evening, sitting beside a board at a club match in Mumbai, I was...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the File: The New Supply Chain of Chess Training ContentThe Name on the File and the Name on the Board Before I opened the file, I re...
A Samarkand Scoreline and a Scandinavian Course: The Page That Forgot Its Own SubjectAugust 2026, London Stadium. From the anchor chair I spent twelve minutes on...
The Headline That Was Never on the Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026, and the Ledger of a Wrong LabelHook The headline was clean, almost cruel in its clarity: “Samarkand R8...
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Exhausted Savings: A Reckoning from Samarkand to BangladeshAt half past three in the morning, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, the round from...
The Fifth Board in Samarkand: Savitha Shri, Her Father's Savings, and the Arithmetic of Seven Wins Nobody Wants to AuditThe clock in the Samarkand hall had already passed five hours and it had not...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Wrong Headline: What to Verify Before Buying a Black Repertoire02:47 in the morning. A ceiling fan in a bedroom in Mymensingh, a second-hand...
The Headline That Plays No Move: Samarkand Round 8, the Scandinavian Defense, and a Sixty-Minute PromiseAt half past eleven, at my desk in Khulna, I was sorting old notebook pages...
15/16 Versus 27 Miniatures: The Gap Between a Headline and Its File in the Chess MarketHook That morning I wrote 15/16 on the first page of my notebook. Samarkand,...
Three Queen Moves: The Tempo Ledger of the Scandinavian Defense and the One-Hour PromiseLast Friday evening, sitting beside a board at a club match in Mumbai, I was...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the File: The New Supply Chain of Chess Training ContentThe Name on the File and the Name on the Board Before I opened the file, I re...
A Samarkand Scoreline and a Scandinavian Course: The Page That Forgot Its Own SubjectAugust 2026, London Stadium. From the anchor chair I spent twelve minutes on...
The Headline That Was Never on the Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026, and the Ledger of a Wrong LabelHook The headline was clean, almost cruel in its clarity: “Samarkand R8...
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Exhausted Savings: A Reckoning from Samarkand to BangladeshAt half past three in the morning, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, the round from...
The Fifth Board in Samarkand: Savitha Shri, Her Father's Savings, and the Arithmetic of Seven Wins Nobody Wants to AuditThe clock in the Samarkand hall had already passed five hours and it had not...
Six Videos, Seven Openings, One Wrong Headline: What to Verify Before Buying a Black Repertoire02:47 in the morning. A ceiling fan in a bedroom in Mymensingh, a second-hand...
The Headline That Plays No Move: Samarkand Round 8, the Scandinavian Defense, and a Sixty-Minute PromiseAt half past eleven, at my desk in Khulna, I was sorting old notebook pages...