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ChessSamarkand's Headline and 9...a5: The Board the Headline Doesn't Mention2026-09-24Hook: A Headline Landed in My Inbox, and Inside It Was a DVD Last week a...
ChessSamarkand's Headline, a DVD's Body: The Anti-Memorization Market and the Folder Nobody Opened2026-09-24Hook — a headline that does not play chess "Samarkand Round 7 (open):...
ChessThe Headline Scores a Point, the Body Sells an Engine: Samarkand Round 7 and the Hollow Slot in Chess News2026-09-24The headline was precise, almost accountant-dry: “Samarkand Round 7 (women):...
Chess9...a5 and the Samarkand Headline: The Empty Square in Chess's Book of Accounts2026-09-24My editor cut all 23 of my diagrams from the first match report I filed from...
ChessSamarkand's Headline and 9...a5: The Board the Headline Doesn't MentionHook: A Headline Landed in My Inbox, and Inside It Was a DVD Last week a...
ChessSamarkand's Headline, a DVD's Body: The Anti-Memorization Market and the Folder Nobody OpenedHook — a headline that does not play chess "Samarkand Round 7 (open):...
ChessThe Samarkand Headline, the Fritz Advertisement: The Ledger Hidden Inside One Match PointLate last week I opened my laptop at two in the morning in Saint Petersburg t...
ChessThe Headline Scores a Point, the Body Sells an Engine: Samarkand Round 7 and the Hollow Slot in Chess NewsThe headline was precise, almost accountant-dry: “Samarkand Round 7 (women):...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Bayonet Body: The Data Audit of the 9...a5 PropositionSection One — Hook 1 a.m. in Dublin. Dhaka runs five hours ahead of me; that...
Chess9...a5 and the Samarkand Headline: The Empty Square in Chess's Book of AccountsMy editor cut all 23 of my diagrams from the first match report I filed from...
ChessThe Samarkand Headline, a King's Indian DVD, and a Pre-Engine Sales PitchThe Samarkand Headline, a King's Indian DVD, and a Pre-Engine Sales Pitch Lat...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Fritz Advertisement: The Ledger of an Empty BoardAt half past eleven one night in Penang, scrolling a feed, my thumb stopped o...
ChessThe Board-One Ledger and the King on Board Four: Why India's 5/5 at the Chess Olympiad Is Not as Easy as It LooksAnish Giri offered a draw. The position on the board was roughly level, and t...
ChessThree Moves, Thirty Minutes, Two Points Up: Whose Failure Was Nihal Sarin's Collapse?Vidit Gujrathi said the same sentence twice from the commentary booth — “He h...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a 2026 Scotch, and an Empty Square in Chess JournalismHook — The move nobody wrote On the night of Samarkand's sixth round I opened...
ChessIndia's 5/5 Sounds Good, but a Board-4 World Champion Is an Accounting StrategySunday's scoreline read 3-1. India beat the Netherlands for a fifth straight...
ChessFive Out of Five, Yet the Gold Arithmetic Runs Through the Lower Boards: India's Depth Test in SamarkandFive Out of Five, Yet the Gold Arithmetic Runs Through the Lower Boards:...