Chess
ChessThe Headline Said Samarkand. The Body Said 9...a5.2026-09-24At seven in the morning last Tuesday a headline slid into my feed: "Samarkand...
ChessFear Sold Against the Scotch: A Phantom Name, Board-Load, and the Physical Bill of Chess Preparation2026-09-24Fear Sold Against the Scotch: A Phantom Name, Board-Load, and the Physical Bi...
ChessEight Level Scores in Samarkand and a PGN File: A Tie Manufactured by the Swiss System2026-09-24It is twenty past two in the morning. In the corner of a bedroom in Mymensing...
ChessA US Championship Headline Wrapped Around an Elephant Gambit Course: Where News and Advertising Blur2026-10-16Hook The headline hands you two results in two sentences — Woodward has taken...
ChessThe Folder Nobody Opened: Bangladesh's Chess, Five Grandmasters, and the Arithmetic of a Patron2026-10-16The hand hovering over the board had stopped. Midway through Bangladesh's 202...
ChessBangladesh Chess: The Story of an Unopened Folder2026-10-15I remember that summer of 2026. The Russia World Cup had taken over every...
A US Championship Headline Wrapped Around an Elephant Gambit Course: Where News and Advertising BlurHook The headline hands you two results in two sentences — Woodward has taken...
The Folder Nobody Opened: Bangladesh's Chess, Five Grandmasters, and the Arithmetic of a PatronThe hand hovering over the board had stopped. Midway through Bangladesh's 202...
Bangladesh Chess: The Story of an Unopened FolderI remember that summer of 2026. The Russia World Cup had taken over every...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes, Thirteen Claims, and Not a Single MoveAt fourteen minutes past two in the morning, in my workroom in Rangpur, I...
Samarkand R7 (Women): One Match Point Ahead and the Arithmetic the Headline Left OutThe headline read like a diagram; the page underneath handed me a software bo...
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Gap, and the Empty Square Inside a HeadlineThe sentence that landed on my desk after Round 7 in Samarkand read like this...
A Samarkand Headline, a King's Indian Body: Auditing One Chess FileThree in the morning in Mymensingh. On a second-hand laptop screen I open a...
Samarkand Round Seven: Where the Headline Ends, the Advertisement BeginsHalf past midnight. On a Penang balcony, the smell of rain, the blue light of...
The Headline Said Samarkand. The Body Said 9...a5.At seven in the morning last Tuesday a headline slid into my feed: "Samarkand...
An Antidote With Zero Games: The King's Indian Bayonet, a Samarkand Headline, and an Incomplete LedgerI read thirteen information points. Not one of them was a game of chess. The...
Two Points Gone in Three Moves, and India's 'Player of the Day'From a Mymensingh bedroom I paused the screen at the moment the evaluation ba...
The Folder Nobody Opened: Bangladesh's Chess, Five Grandmasters, and the Arithmetic of a PatronThe hand hovering over the board had stopped. Midway through Bangladesh's 202...
Bangladesh Chess: The Story of an Unopened FolderI remember that summer of 2026. The Russia World Cup had taken over every...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes, Thirteen Claims, and Not a Single MoveAt fourteen minutes past two in the morning, in my workroom in Rangpur, I...
Samarkand R7 (Women): One Match Point Ahead and the Arithmetic the Headline Left OutThe headline read like a diagram; the page underneath handed me a software bo...
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Gap, and the Empty Square Inside a HeadlineThe sentence that landed on my desk after Round 7 in Samarkand read like this...
A Samarkand Headline, a King's Indian Body: Auditing One Chess FileThree in the morning in Mymensingh. On a second-hand laptop screen I open a...
Samarkand Round Seven: Where the Headline Ends, the Advertisement BeginsHalf past midnight. On a Penang balcony, the smell of rain, the blue light of...
The Headline Said Samarkand. The Body Said 9...a5.At seven in the morning last Tuesday a headline slid into my feed: "Samarkand...
An Antidote With Zero Games: The King's Indian Bayonet, a Samarkand Headline, and an Incomplete LedgerI read thirteen information points. Not one of them was a game of chess. The...
Two Points Gone in Three Moves, and India's 'Player of the Day'From a Mymensingh bedroom I paused the screen at the moment the evaluation ba...