Chess
Reading the Transfer Window Through Spatial Pieces: The Most Expensive Signing May Not Fill the Biggest Gap
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads India's Women's Team — When Board Order Becomes a Move
Women's Chess: The 150-Elo Gap and a Generation's Unopened Door
Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leading the Women's Team: India's Board-Order Gambit at the Chess Olympiad
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends a Double Crown and the Fifth Chair Nobody Sits On
VAR in V.League 1: A Whistle With No Loudspeaker, and a Stand Left OutMinute 71 at Hang Day Stadium, a March afternoon. The referee puts his hand t...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: Pakistan Forfeits Against Israel, and FIDE's SilenceI sat in front of the screen at two in the morning Delhi time, on the opening...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: Pakistan's Unplayed Move and FIDE's Legal Blind SpotOn a Wednesday afternoon in Samarkand, a chessboard was set up but no one sat...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: The Move That Was Never MadeThe game had no moves. Not a single pawn was pushed, not a single chess clock...
Reading the Transfer Window Through Spatial Pieces: The Most Expensive Signing May Not Fill the Biggest GapLate on transfer deadline night in Nha Trang, I open three things on my desk ...
Pakistan Refuses to Play in Samarkand: The Empty Board and FIDE's Precedent ProblemThe chess clock on board one was never pressed. Eight white pieces stayed...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads India's Women's Team — When Board Order Becomes a MoveIn a small conference room at the Indian Chess Federation in Chennai, a board...
Women's Chess: The 150-Elo Gap and a Generation's Unopened DoorIn April 2026, in Toronto, the Women's Candidates Tournament was held alongsi...
Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leading the Women's Team: India's Board-Order Gambit at the Chess OlympiadIn 2026, inside a chess hall in Hanoi, I stood watching organizers pin the...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends a Double Crown and the Fifth Chair Nobody Sits OnIn Samarkand this autumn, every chess team may register five players but only...
Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad: Coach Misra's Claim and the Data TestBudapest, September 2026. On the third board of the Indian women's team, an...
Chess Olympiad 2026: The Torch Reaches Samarkand, Sindarov Receives It, and Three Claims That Need VerificationSamarkand, an autumn evening. The torch is lifted before the blue-tiled domes...
ChessBase August training releases: Petroff database updates, calculation and two positional-play coursesLate on September 13, 2026, in Chengdu, I opened ChessBase's August release...
Samarkand Hotel, the Night Before Round One: India Waits for Rooms While Defending Two CrownsOn the night of 15 September 2026, in Samarkand, a row of suitcases stood sti...
"Knight Magic": The 5.e5 Move, Sveshnikov's Authority, and the Data Gap in an Opening ProductI sat in the back row against the wall, on the edge aisle of the tournament...
The Samarkand Torch and Three Names That Need Verifying Before the 2026 Chess OlympiadA flame passed from the hand of an Indian chess federation official into the...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: Pakistan Forfeits Against Israel, and FIDE's SilenceI sat in front of the screen at two in the morning Delhi time, on the opening...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: Pakistan's Unplayed Move and FIDE's Legal Blind SpotOn a Wednesday afternoon in Samarkand, a chessboard was set up but no one sat...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: The Move That Was Never MadeThe game had no moves. Not a single pawn was pushed, not a single chess clock...
Reading the Transfer Window Through Spatial Pieces: The Most Expensive Signing May Not Fill the Biggest GapLate on transfer deadline night in Nha Trang, I open three things on my desk ...
Pakistan Refuses to Play in Samarkand: The Empty Board and FIDE's Precedent ProblemThe chess clock on board one was never pressed. Eight white pieces stayed...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads India's Women's Team — When Board Order Becomes a MoveIn a small conference room at the Indian Chess Federation in Chennai, a board...
Women's Chess: The 150-Elo Gap and a Generation's Unopened DoorIn April 2026, in Toronto, the Women's Candidates Tournament was held alongsi...
Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leading the Women's Team: India's Board-Order Gambit at the Chess OlympiadIn 2026, inside a chess hall in Hanoi, I stood watching organizers pin the...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends a Double Crown and the Fifth Chair Nobody Sits OnIn Samarkand this autumn, every chess team may register five players but only...
Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad: Coach Misra's Claim and the Data TestBudapest, September 2026. On the third board of the Indian women's team, an...
Chess Olympiad 2026: The Torch Reaches Samarkand, Sindarov Receives It, and Three Claims That Need VerificationSamarkand, an autumn evening. The torch is lifted before the blue-tiled domes...
ChessBase August training releases: Petroff database updates, calculation and two positional-play coursesLate on September 13, 2026, in Chengdu, I opened ChessBase's August release...
Samarkand Hotel, the Night Before Round One: India Waits for Rooms While Defending Two CrownsOn the night of 15 September 2026, in Samarkand, a row of suitcases stood sti...
"Knight Magic": The 5.e5 Move, Sveshnikov's Authority, and the Data Gap in an Opening ProductI sat in the back row against the wall, on the edge aisle of the tournament...
The Samarkand Torch and Three Names That Need Verifying Before the 2026 Chess OlympiadA flame passed from the hand of an Indian chess federation official into the...