Chess
The Scotch Game, a Phantom Name, and the Silent Economy of Chess Publishing
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A Strategy DVD, a Mismatched Headline, and 38 Moves in a Club Room
No Score in the Headline: India, Poland and the Autopsy of an 'Achilles Heel' at the Chess Olympiad's Fifth Round
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 — Where the Headline Lies and the Board Tells the Truth
Three Moves, Thirty Minutes, and the Cruel Arithmetic of Team Scoring
9...a5 Against the Bayonet: A Strategy DVD, a Mismatched Headline, and 38 Moves in a Club RoomIn a club room in Segunbagicha I opened a 19-year-old's prep file. Thirty-eig...
No Score in the Headline: India, Poland and the Autopsy of an 'Achilles Heel' at the Chess Olympiad's Fifth RoundA headline arrived at my desk without a score attached to it: at Round 5 of t...
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 — Where the Headline Lies and the Board Tells the Truth1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 — I can write those three moves from memory before I...
Three Moves, Thirty Minutes, and the Cruel Arithmetic of Team ScoringThirty minutes. The clock still showed thirty minutes. An advantage worth...
Samarkand Round Seven: Uzbekistan in the Headline, a DVD in the BodyA headline filed from Uzbekistan slid across my phone last week: “Samarkand R...
Five Wins in Five, Yet India's Gold Road Runs Through the Bottom Boards: Savitha Shri and an Unfinished SumI paused the stream. Rewound about thirty seconds, just to look at one line o...
The Scotch Game, a Phantom Name, and the Silent Economy of Chess PublishingThe page took three seconds to load. The headline said one thing — “Egon...
The Scotch Reborn: Mikhalchishin's Counter-Repertoire and the Folder with the Wrong LabelAt two in the morning in my Delhi flat I opened a tab whose headline read "Jo...
Chess Olympiad: Why India picked Nihal Sarin as player of the day despite defeat in Uzbekistan clash4 draws, one board, 30 minutes on the clock, a +2 advantage—then only three...
Lower-Board Load, Upper-Board Silence: India Women's 5/5 at the Chess Olympiad and the Load Arithmetic of a 19-Year-OldForty-seven moves. That is where the clock stopped on board four of the...
The Samarkand Ledger: India's Women's Team Is Standing on Boards Four and FiveRound six. India versus the United States, women's section. The top boards...
Pragg's Win, Gukesh's 4.5/5 — What India's 5/5 Actually SaysGiri offered the draw. Praggnanandhaa turned it down. On the top board of Rou...
No Score in the Headline: India, Poland and the Autopsy of an 'Achilles Heel' at the Chess Olympiad's Fifth RoundA headline arrived at my desk without a score attached to it: at Round 5 of t...
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 — Where the Headline Lies and the Board Tells the Truth1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 — I can write those three moves from memory before I...
Three Moves, Thirty Minutes, and the Cruel Arithmetic of Team ScoringThirty minutes. The clock still showed thirty minutes. An advantage worth...
Samarkand Round Seven: Uzbekistan in the Headline, a DVD in the BodyA headline filed from Uzbekistan slid across my phone last week: “Samarkand R...
Five Wins in Five, Yet India's Gold Road Runs Through the Bottom Boards: Savitha Shri and an Unfinished SumI paused the stream. Rewound about thirty seconds, just to look at one line o...
The Scotch Game, a Phantom Name, and the Silent Economy of Chess PublishingThe page took three seconds to load. The headline said one thing — “Egon...
The Scotch Reborn: Mikhalchishin's Counter-Repertoire and the Folder with the Wrong LabelAt two in the morning in my Delhi flat I opened a tab whose headline read "Jo...
Chess Olympiad: Why India picked Nihal Sarin as player of the day despite defeat in Uzbekistan clash4 draws, one board, 30 minutes on the clock, a +2 advantage—then only three...
Lower-Board Load, Upper-Board Silence: India Women's 5/5 at the Chess Olympiad and the Load Arithmetic of a 19-Year-OldForty-seven moves. That is where the clock stopped on board four of the...
The Samarkand Ledger: India's Women's Team Is Standing on Boards Four and FiveRound six. India versus the United States, women's section. The top boards...
Pragg's Win, Gukesh's 4.5/5 — What India's 5/5 Actually SaysGiri offered the draw. Praggnanandhaa turned it down. On the top board of Rou...