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Round 9 in Samarkand: Gukesh's Five-Hour Escape and the Ledger of India's Single-Point Dependence
The Label Said Samarkand; the Box Held Another Game
The Price of 5.e5: Erigaisi's Game 740, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Room the Engine Never Reached
The King's Walk and the Weight of e5: An Injury Report on the Olympiad's Half-Hidden Italian Line
The Price of 5.e5: Erigaisi's Game 740, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Room the Engine Never ReachedOn the evening of 14 August 2026, in a chess academy on the second floor of a...
The King's Walk and the Weight of e5: An Injury Report on the Olympiad's Half-Hidden Italian LineI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than any...
Chess Olympiad Round 9: D Gukesh's 'Houdini' Escape Keeps India in Gold Medal RaceFifty-four moves. For more than five hours, a position assumed lost. In Round...
The King's Walk, 5.e5, and an Unopened Archive: The Headline Arrived, the Game Did NotFebruary evening, a flat in Delhi, coffee going cold, and a link landing on m...
FIDE President in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Document With Zero DatesFIDE President in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: A Document With Zero Dat...
5.e5! — The Sharp Italian Branch, and the Claim That Still Hasn't Faced an EngineIt was 1:40 in the morning in Dublin. Dhaka runs five hours ahead of me, so...
Five Hours Lost, 54 Moves Recovered: How Much of India's Samarkand Gold Chase Rests on One Board?One Lost Position, 54 Moves, and One Question Move 54. More than five hours o...
Round 9 in Samarkand: Gukesh's Five-Hour Escape and the Ledger of India's Single-Point DependenceThe first number you write into the ledger is not 54. It is three. Three...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: The Economics of a Chess Magazine and What the 'Samarkand Phantom' Teaches UsHook: A Report That Was Never Written The headline was clear. Samarkand. Roun...
The Label Said Samarkand; the Box Held Another GameSix in the evening. The screen of my laptop glows in a Khulna flat, the...
The Distance Between Label and Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026, and the Quiet Crisis of Chess ContentMymensingh, 2:40 a.m. The router is 4G, the laptop is second-hand, and on the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's Labour, the Wrong Label, and Dhaka's File LedgerIn a Mymensingh room at two in the morning I opened the file. The header said...
A Headline Set in Samarkand, a Body Selling the Scandinavian: An Autopsy of Information IntegrityIt was 2:40 in the morning in Rangpur, the tea long cold, and I was scrolling...
Whose Neck Holds the Sword of Damocles: The Scandinavian Defense, Sixty Minutes, and the Ledger of Chess Course MarketingI had the stopwatch running before I pressed play. Wednesday afternoon, a...