Chess
Samarkand, the Bayonet and an Empty Board: What Turned Up When I Tried to Verify a Headline
The Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Success and Mikhalchishin's Practical Advice
A Samarkand Headline and a Bayonet Attack 'Antidote': Auditing the Source Integrity of Chess Content
A Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Body: Autopsy of a Chess Information Mismatch
Samarkand Round Seven: When a News Headline Becomes Advertising Inventory
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, Lead by One Match Point — The Ledger I Opened in the Gap Between Headline and Body
A Samarkand Headline and a Bayonet Attack 'Antidote': Auditing the Source Integrity of Chess ContentHook: One Inch of Dust on the Second Shelf The steel cupboard sits in a Khuln...
A Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Body: Autopsy of a Chess Information MismatchThe headline said Samarkand, round seven, and Uzbekistan extending its lead....
Samarkand Round Seven: When a News Headline Becomes Advertising InventoryI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. In November 2026 I...
Samarkand, the Bayonet and an Empty Board: What Turned Up When I Tried to Verify a HeadlineThree in the Morning, and a Headline The call came at three in the morning fr...
Samarkand Round 7 (Women): China and Kazakhstan Draw, Lead by One Match Point — The Ledger I Opened in the Gap Between Headline and BodyI opened the page for exactly one reason: the headline carried a specific rou...
The Scotch Opening: Kasparov's 2026 Success and Mikhalchishin's Practical AdviceThe Scotch Opening was once considered 'harmless.' But when Garry Kasparov...
Fischer in the Headline, Scotch in the Body: The Commercial Half-Life of Chess Opening KnowledgeIn my bedroom in Mymensingh I paused the clip at twenty-eight minutes on a...
Sixty Minutes Against the Scotch: Mikhalchishin's Video, Kasparov's 2026 and the Silence of the SpreadsheetThe headline said Samarkand Round 6, Uzbekistan beating India for sole lead. ...
The World Champion on Board Four: The Receipt Nobody Kept From India's Round FiveRound five fits into four characters: 3.0–1.0. What sits underneath those...
Black's Road Through the System-Opening Era: Valeri Lilov's Course, the Preparation Market, and Bangladesh's Missing PipelineA club tournament in Delhi, last winter. I stood beside one board for nearly...
Eight Names in Samarkand, and One Magazine's LedgerAfter four rounds in Samarkand, eight names sit side by side on the scoreboar...