Chess
ChessSixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Najdorf: Auditing Daniel King's Update Package2026-10-24Divide sixty by five. You get twelve. Twelve minutes per variation. That is t...
ChessA FIDE President in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: Post-Mortem of a Chess News Item2026-10-23August 2026, Chennai. The convention hall near Chepauk where the FIDE Congres...
ChessWesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak, Wins Fourth US Chess Championship Title2026-10-24The decisive moment in the tournament hall of the Saint Louis Chess Club bega...
ChessSixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, an Undated Review, and the Question Nobody Asked2026-10-24A video file downloads. It runs sixty minutes. Inside are five line clusters....
ChessSixty Minutes, Five Clusters, Zero Verification: Auditing the Najdorf Update2026-10-24One file. Sixty minutes of runtime. Five line clusters. English language. A...
ChessA 2465 Performance Rating, 5.5/7 on Board One — and an 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Still Waiting for Verification2026-10-24October the twenty-third. Final round. Board one. Across the table sat WIM...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak, Wins Fourth US Chess Championship TitleThe decisive moment in the tournament hall of the Saint Louis Chess Club bega...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, an Undated Review, and the Question Nobody AskedA video file downloads. It runs sixty minutes. Inside are five line clusters....
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Najdorf: Auditing Daniel King's Update PackageDivide sixty by five. You get twelve. Twelve minutes per variation. That is t...
Sixty Minutes, Five Clusters, Zero Verification: Auditing the Najdorf UpdateOne file. Sixty minutes of runtime. Five line clusters. English language. A...
A 2465 Performance Rating, 5.5/7 on Board One — and an 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Still Waiting for VerificationOctober the twenty-third. Final round. Board one. Across the table sat WIM...
Najdorf on the Label, Elephant in the Box: Auditing a 60-Minute Chess CourseThe tape shows something the scoreline never bothered to record. This time th...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, One Tiebreak — and a Syllabus That Swallowed the ScorelineI came to this file looking for a scoreline. I found a syllabus. The headline...
Novy Bor, SuperChess, and a 2026 Scotch advert: two different stories on one pageOn my desk in Hyderabad, at eleven at night, the same old ritual. One page op...
The Budva Ledger: A 2715 Average, a Field of 108, and the Column With Only 22 NamesI opened the file dated October 19, 2026, expecting Barcelona. The headline w...
The Five-Hour Sentence: What the Headlines Missed in Carlsen's AI InterviewThe most shared line from the Marca interview published on 21 October — sourc...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — and a Headline That Doesn't Match the TableOn the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the press note in my inbox opened...
The Turlov Headline Fails Its Own Ledger: Wrong President, Wrong Body, No NumbersThe clip that landed on my desk carried a headline about the FIDE President,...
European Club Cup After Three Rounds: The Eleven-Way Tie Is a Scoring Artifact, Not a StoryTuesday, 20 October 2026. On the board in the hotel corridor, the round-four...
A FIDE President in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: Post-Mortem of a Chess News ItemAugust 2026, Chennai. The convention hall near Chepauk where the FIDE Congres...
108 and 22 in Budva: The European Club Cup Number Nobody NarratesThe first paragraph I read on the morning of 19 October 2026 took me away fro...
108 Teams, 22 Women's Teams and One 2715 Average: The European Club Cup Ledger in BudvaThe brief that landed on my desk on 19 October 2026 does not reconcile its ow...
Packaging the Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: Carlsen's Name Is There, the Data Isn'tLast week a file landed on my desk with two unrelated stories sealed inside o...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, an Undated Review, and the Question Nobody AskedA video file downloads. It runs sixty minutes. Inside are five line clusters....
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Najdorf: Auditing Daniel King's Update PackageDivide sixty by five. You get twelve. Twelve minutes per variation. That is t...
Sixty Minutes, Five Clusters, Zero Verification: Auditing the Najdorf UpdateOne file. Sixty minutes of runtime. Five line clusters. English language. A...
A 2465 Performance Rating, 5.5/7 on Board One — and an 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Still Waiting for VerificationOctober the twenty-third. Final round. Board one. Across the table sat WIM...
Najdorf on the Label, Elephant in the Box: Auditing a 60-Minute Chess CourseThe tape shows something the scoreline never bothered to record. This time th...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, One Tiebreak — and a Syllabus That Swallowed the ScorelineI came to this file looking for a scoreline. I found a syllabus. The headline...
Novy Bor, SuperChess, and a 2026 Scotch advert: two different stories on one pageOn my desk in Hyderabad, at eleven at night, the same old ritual. One page op...
The Budva Ledger: A 2715 Average, a Field of 108, and the Column With Only 22 NamesI opened the file dated October 19, 2026, expecting Barcelona. The headline w...
The Five-Hour Sentence: What the Headlines Missed in Carlsen's AI InterviewThe most shared line from the Marca interview published on 21 October — sourc...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds — and a Headline That Doesn't Match the TableOn the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the press note in my inbox opened...
The Turlov Headline Fails Its Own Ledger: Wrong President, Wrong Body, No NumbersThe clip that landed on my desk carried a headline about the FIDE President,...
European Club Cup After Three Rounds: The Eleven-Way Tie Is a Scoring Artifact, Not a StoryTuesday, 20 October 2026. On the board in the hotel corridor, the round-four...
A FIDE President in the Headline, FRITZ 20 in the Body: Post-Mortem of a Chess News ItemAugust 2026, Chennai. The convention hall near Chepauk where the FIDE Congres...
108 and 22 in Budva: The European Club Cup Number Nobody NarratesThe first paragraph I read on the morning of 19 October 2026 took me away fro...
108 Teams, 22 Women's Teams and One 2715 Average: The European Club Cup Ledger in BudvaThe brief that landed on my desk on 19 October 2026 does not reconcile its ow...
Packaging the Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: Carlsen's Name Is There, the Data Isn'tLast week a file landed on my desk with two unrelated stories sealed inside o...