Chess
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense, an Uncited Game, and the Empty Cell in the Data
A Prague File Under a Samarkand Headline: The Economics of Chess Training and One Metadata Fracture
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague Contents Page: A Data Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225
The Scandinavian Defense: A Hanging Sword, a Missing Game Number, and a Sixty-Minute Receipt
Samarkand 2026: Seven Wins from a Reserve Board, and One Family's Balance Sheet
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body
The Sixty-Minute Promise: The Scandinavian Defense, an Uncited Game, and the Empty Cell in the DataThirteen points. A course advertisement. Each point short, tidy, clean. Point...
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague Contents Page: A Data Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225Hook Late last Sunday, my ledger's fifth column recorded an anomaly. A chess...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Hanging Sword, a Missing Game Number, and a Sixty-Minute ReceiptLast week I was sitting in my Moscow flat reading a product page for a chess...
Samarkand 2026: Seven Wins from a Reserve Board, and One Family's Balance Sheet“Five or six years, maybe even ten.” That was one father in Chennai estimatin...
A Prague File Under a Samarkand Headline: The Economics of Chess Training and One Metadata FractureA Prague File Under a Samarkand Headline The label on the file said Samarkand...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian BodyA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body Hook: The page where a tournament...
A Samarkand Scoreline, a Scandinavian Sales Page: Auditing a Mismatched SourceLate one August evening I was sitting in my Moscow flat scraping the current...
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Father's Ledger: What the Samarkand Reserve Board Really OpenedSamarkand, hour five. On board four of India's women's team match, a...
Seven From Seven on the Reserve Board: Savitha Shri's Hero Story Is Really a Budget StoryThe team hall in Samarkand was creeping toward the five-hour mark, and two...
The Headline Says Germany-Uzbekistan; the Body Sells the ScandinavianMoscow, a February morning, snow on the window glass, the coffee cold an hour...
Sword of Damocles: A Promise to Learn the Scandinavian in One Hour, and a Body That Sits for Four Hours Fifty-Two MinutesApril 2026. I flew from Boston to Dhaka for the Premier Division Chess League...
Sword of Damocles: The Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes, and the Uneven Promises of the Chess MarketThe diagram on my laptop screen was still unfinished in the Purana Paltan hal...
Samarkand Headline, Scandinavian Body: The Chess Ledger That Will Not BalanceIn mid-2026, in the chess hall at Purana Paltan, on the day I filed my first...
A Samarkand Label, Prague Cargo: The Quiet Economy of Chess NewsIn Saint Petersburg the clock is just touching six on a January morning, the...