Chess
The Theory Tax and the Sideline War: Why Club Chess Turns Its Back on 2.c4
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends Double Gold at the Largest Edition in History
Three Moves in Samarkand: Nihal Sarin's Slip and the Crack on India's Lower Boards
Empty Result: When Chess Data Cannot See the Queens
The Theory Tax and the Sideline War: Why Club Chess Turns Its Back on 2.c4In the seventh round of a club tournament in Binh Duong, the player with the...
Three Moves in Samarkand: Nihal Sarin's Slip and the Crack on India's Lower BoardsFrom the sideline, I see the whole match. The game on board three ended in...
Empty Result: When Chess Data Cannot See the QueensI typed her name into the search field of the largest game database I had...
Jobava's 5.e5 Through Daniel King's Lens: An Opening Line, A Lesson, And The Price Of PopularityThe fifth move. The white pawn leaves e4 and lands on e5. On the board it is...
9...a5 and the Bayonet Problem: Inside a King's Indian Mar del Plata Lecture DVDA pawn advances exactly one square. Nine...a5. In a King's Indian Mar del...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends Double Gold at the Largest Edition in HistoryOn September 16, 2026, at the Silk Road International Exhibition Centre in...
Samarkand Opens the Largest Chess Olympiad in History as India Defends Two TitlesAt 15:00 local time on 16 September 2026, more than eight hundred boards in t...
46th Chess Olympiad: India Defends Double Gold Amid a Record 208 TeamsOn the morning of September 16, 2026, at the Silk Road International Exhibiti...
Samarkand and the Double Burden of India's Two CrownsOn the street leading into the Silk Road International Exhibition Centre in...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads India's Women's TeamNine in the evening, the deadline for submitting the line-up. A sheet of pape...
Coach Misra says Divya Deshmukh and R. Vaishali are stronger than when they won the Olympiad: a claim with no Elo attachedDelhi, a weekend morning. I open the recording of the Indian women's chess...
Samarkand 2026: When the world champion had to sit in a hotel lobby waiting for a roomTwelve hours before the first round of the 2026 World Chess Olympiad in...
The 5.e5 Move: Sveshnikov's Trap and the Hidden Truth Behind an Opening ProductIn a small room in Saint Petersburg, winter of 2026, I sat across from a youn...
Sveshnikov's Fifth Move: The Transposition Map Nobody Draws for Chess StudentsI rewound the game recording four times, and only on the fourth pass did I se...
Samarkand, Empty Corridors and the Move Nobody SawOn September 15, 2026, the Indian chess team landed in Samarkand. About five...
The Board and the Data: How Analysis Became the Pathway for a Generation of Female Chess PlayersI still remember that late-autumn afternoon. The playing hall in Da Nang was...
Three Moves in Samarkand: Nihal Sarin's Slip and the Crack on India's Lower BoardsFrom the sideline, I see the whole match. The game on board three ended in...
Empty Result: When Chess Data Cannot See the QueensI typed her name into the search field of the largest game database I had...
Jobava's 5.e5 Through Daniel King's Lens: An Opening Line, A Lesson, And The Price Of PopularityThe fifth move. The white pawn leaves e4 and lands on e5. On the board it is...
9...a5 and the Bayonet Problem: Inside a King's Indian Mar del Plata Lecture DVDA pawn advances exactly one square. Nine...a5. In a King's Indian Mar del...
46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand: India Defends Double Gold at the Largest Edition in HistoryOn September 16, 2026, at the Silk Road International Exhibition Centre in...
Samarkand Opens the Largest Chess Olympiad in History as India Defends Two TitlesAt 15:00 local time on 16 September 2026, more than eight hundred boards in t...
46th Chess Olympiad: India Defends Double Gold Amid a Record 208 TeamsOn the morning of September 16, 2026, at the Silk Road International Exhibiti...
Samarkand and the Double Burden of India's Two CrownsOn the street leading into the Silk Road International Exhibition Centre in...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4, Humpy Leads India's Women's TeamNine in the evening, the deadline for submitting the line-up. A sheet of pape...
Coach Misra says Divya Deshmukh and R. Vaishali are stronger than when they won the Olympiad: a claim with no Elo attachedDelhi, a weekend morning. I open the recording of the Indian women's chess...
Samarkand 2026: When the world champion had to sit in a hotel lobby waiting for a roomTwelve hours before the first round of the 2026 World Chess Olympiad in...
The 5.e5 Move: Sveshnikov's Trap and the Hidden Truth Behind an Opening ProductIn a small room in Saint Petersburg, winter of 2026, I sat across from a youn...
Sveshnikov's Fifth Move: The Transposition Map Nobody Draws for Chess StudentsI rewound the game recording four times, and only on the fourth pass did I se...
Samarkand, Empty Corridors and the Move Nobody SawOn September 15, 2026, the Indian chess team landed in Samarkand. About five...
The Board and the Data: How Analysis Became the Pathway for a Generation of Female Chess PlayersI still remember that late-autumn afternoon. The playing hall in Da Nang was...
