Chess
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Price of an Old Engine Sentence in the Chess Market
One Plan, Seven Openings: The Arithmetic of Black's Task Against 1.d4 That Nobody Prints
Samarkand R7: A Headline With No Board, Only an Advertisement
Samarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point — and the Anatomy of a Headline
Samarkand R7: One Match Point, Zero Boards
From Board Four to Board One: How the Ledger Refused to Balance in Round Five
ChessSamarkand R7: A Headline With No Board, Only an AdvertisementNovember 2026. The BCF hall in Purana Paltan, the second shelf of a steel...
ChessSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point — and the Anatomy of a HeadlineSamarkand R7: China and Kazakhstan Draw, One Match Point — and the Anatomy of...
ChessSamarkand R7: One Match Point, Zero BoardsA Headline That Never Watched the Match At half past two in the morning, a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Price of an Old Engine Sentence in the Chess MarketTen past three in the morning. The table lamp in a Mymensingh bedroom, a lapt...
ChessFrom Board Four to Board One: How the Ledger Refused to Balance in Round FiveThe fourth table in the Samarkand playing hall is quieter than the others. Th...
ChessOne Plan, Seven Openings: The Arithmetic of Black's Task Against 1.d4 That Nobody PrintsIt is half past three in the morning in Mymensingh. The router's blue light, ...
ChessScotch Counter-System: A Data Audit and the Phantom Olympiad DebutHook A headline and a body. The headline announces Egon Mattaaq’s Olympiad...
ChessThe Price of the Scotch: Kasparov 2026, a 2026 Coach, and the Lesson of a Mismatched HeadlineIn December 2026 I was tagging 640 Premier Division games in a bedroom in...
ChessThe Board Four Arithmetic: India's 5/5, and Bangladesh's 2026Keep the scoresheet of Round Five in front of you and the eye stops first at...