Chess
Prague 2026, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Magazine That Shows the Man Behind the Move
Wesley So's Fourth US Championship: The Tiebreak Verdict and the Ledger Under the Saint Louis Table
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines: Where the Real Value of a Najdorf Update Hides
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: Chess's Shortest Stories Demand the Longest Accounting
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines: Where the Real Value of a Najdorf Update HidesSixty minutes of video. Five line clusters. The arithmetic is unforgiving —...
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: Chess's Shortest Stories Demand the Longest AccountingThere were twenty-three moves on the scoresheet, two signatures beneath them,...
Prague 2026, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Magazine That Shows the Man Behind the MoveIt is one in the morning. In the same Indiranagar flat where, five years ago,...
A 2,465 Performance Rating and a Date That Doesn't Add Up: Auditing an 11-Year-Old's IM ClaimThe board-one score sheet from 23 October reads 5.5/7 — five wins, one draw,...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and ChessBase Magazine #225: Turning Entertainment into Training DataBefore opening the ChessBase Magazine #225 file, I did what I do with every n...
An IM at Eleven: The Clock Arithmetic Behind a 2,465 Performance Rating — and One Date That Doesn't Add UpOn 23 October, in the final round, she had the black pieces and a gambit line...
Najdorf Update: When the Review Itself Bears No DateThe first line of the review read — "DVD from last year." Just that. No year,...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, One Closed Room: The Most Useful Chess Book to Come Out of Prague 2026The printer on the first floor of Prague's Hotel Don Giovanni, outside the...
Wesley So's Fourth US Championship: The Tiebreak Verdict and the Ledger Under the Saint Louis TableThat evening in Saint Louis, the scoreboard carried a single question. The...
An IM Claim at 11 Years 7 Months — and a Scoresheet Still Waiting for Its DateBoard one, final round, black pieces. A gambit line opened, a pawn came loose...
Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Ledger Missing Its Prize FundThree documents sat on my Kolkata desk this week. The first was an entry list...
An IM at Eleven: The Scoresheet Ends Where the Ledger BeginsLate on Monday night, at a desk in Hyderabad, I opened a scoresheet and the...
International Master at 11: The Story of That Final MoveShe sat at board one. Age: eleven years, seven months, sixteen days. Across...
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: Chess's Shortest Stories Demand the Longest AccountingThere were twenty-three moves on the scoresheet, two signatures beneath them,...
Prague 2026, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Magazine That Shows the Man Behind the MoveIt is one in the morning. In the same Indiranagar flat where, five years ago,...
A 2,465 Performance Rating and a Date That Doesn't Add Up: Auditing an 11-Year-Old's IM ClaimThe board-one score sheet from 23 October reads 5.5/7 — five wins, one draw,...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and ChessBase Magazine #225: Turning Entertainment into Training DataBefore opening the ChessBase Magazine #225 file, I did what I do with every n...
An IM at Eleven: The Clock Arithmetic Behind a 2,465 Performance Rating — and One Date That Doesn't Add UpOn 23 October, in the final round, she had the black pieces and a gambit line...
Najdorf Update: When the Review Itself Bears No DateThe first line of the review read — "DVD from last year." Just that. No year,...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures, One Closed Room: The Most Useful Chess Book to Come Out of Prague 2026The printer on the first floor of Prague's Hotel Don Giovanni, outside the...
Wesley So's Fourth US Championship: The Tiebreak Verdict and the Ledger Under the Saint Louis TableThat evening in Saint Louis, the scoreboard carried a single question. The...
An IM Claim at 11 Years 7 Months — and a Scoresheet Still Waiting for Its DateBoard one, final round, black pieces. A gambit line opened, a pawn came loose...
Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Ledger Missing Its Prize FundThree documents sat on my Kolkata desk this week. The first was an entry list...
An IM at Eleven: The Scoresheet Ends Where the Ledger BeginsLate on Monday night, at a desk in Hyderabad, I opened a scoresheet and the...
International Master at 11: The Story of That Final MoveShe sat at board one. Age: eleven years, seven months, sixteen days. Across...