Chess
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Archive Nobody Has Written Yet2026-10-25In 2026, for the Tbilisi World Cup, I built a 44-page briefing book on 128...
Eleven Years, Seven Games, One Crooked Date: Vietnam's IM Norm and the Headline That Ran Ahead2026-10-25Board one, final round. An eleven-year-old had the black pieces, and she chos...
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures, One Festival and the Real Accounting of Chess Penetration2026-10-25On move 21, the white queen landed on h5. The next five moves kept the materi...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Real Question Is the Date, Not the Line2026-10-25The evening of December 12, 2026. Golpark, Kolkata. Two ceiling fans were...
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Archive Nobody Has Written YetIn 2026, for the Tbilisi World Cup, I built a 44-page briefing book on 128...
Eleven Years, Seven Games, One Crooked Date: Vietnam's IM Norm and the Headline That Ran AheadBoard one, final round. An eleven-year-old had the black pieces, and she chos...
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures, One Festival and the Real Accounting of Chess PenetrationOn move 21, the white queen landed on h5. The next five moves kept the materi...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Real Question Is the Date, Not the LineThe evening of December 12, 2026. Golpark, Kolkata. Two ceiling fans were...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship Came in Tiebreaks — and the Headline Was Sold Before the Last MoveNine information points were logged in the report that carried the result of...
An IM Norm at Eleven: Vietnam's Prodigy, a 2465 Performance and the Arithmetic Behind a HeadlineFinal round, board one. Black pieces, a gambit line, and across the board sat...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King’s Repertoire Update and Chess’s Maintenance EconomyThe file may be large; its real weight is sixty minutes. Daniel King’s...
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance — and a Date That Runs Ahead of the CalendarI opened the file looking for a seven-round cross-table. What I got was a...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: A Tiebreak Win Over Caruana, and an Incomplete LedgerThe information packet on the US Chess Championship that reached my desk...
Eleven Years, Seven Games, One Crooked Date: Vietnam's IM Norm and the Headline That Ran AheadBoard one, final round. An eleven-year-old had the black pieces, and she chos...
Prague 2026: 27 Miniatures, One Festival and the Real Accounting of Chess PenetrationOn move 21, the white queen landed on h5. The next five moves kept the materi...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Real Question Is the Date, Not the LineThe evening of December 12, 2026. Golpark, Kolkata. Two ceiling fans were...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship Came in Tiebreaks — and the Headline Was Sold Before the Last MoveNine information points were logged in the report that carried the result of...
An IM Norm at Eleven: Vietnam's Prodigy, a 2465 Performance and the Arithmetic Behind a HeadlineFinal round, board one. Black pieces, a gambit line, and across the board sat...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King’s Repertoire Update and Chess’s Maintenance EconomyThe file may be large; its real weight is sixty minutes. Daniel King’s...
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance — and a Date That Runs Ahead of the CalendarI opened the file looking for a seven-round cross-table. What I got was a...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: A Tiebreak Win Over Caruana, and an Incomplete LedgerThe information packet on the US Chess Championship that reached my desk...