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Chess5.e5!: A Grandmaster Weapon in Club Hands, and the Sarana Game That Isn't ThereThe headline said Alexei Sarana took his king for a walk at the Olympiad. I s...
ChessThe Quiet Clock of Samarkand: Gukesh's 54 Moves, India's Gold Arithmetic, and the Ledger Nobody AuditsThe air in the Samarkand playing hall is dry as paper. In the sixth hour of...
ChessThe Headline Said Samarkand, the Body Sold a Magazine: An Information Audit of ChessBase #2253:40 in the morning. A phone call from a club organiser in Dhaka. He wanted o...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Title Mismatch, Content TruthI had expected a report on the women's team event in Samarkand, with China's...
ChessSixty Minutes of the Scandinavian: An Unverified Carlsen, a Queen That Moves Three Times, and the Open Ledger of Chess's Course EconomyA thirteen-sentence product blurb crossed my desk in Mumbai last month. The...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, a Sixty-Minute Course in the Body: The Information Gap in the Chess Content Supply ChainTwo in the Morning, and a Feed It is two in the morning in Mymensingh. A feed...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: One File, Two GamesIt is two in the morning in a bedroom in Mymensingh. A secondhand laptop sits...
ChessNo Samarkand Scorecard, Only ChessBase Magazine #225: A Ledger of a Metadata BreakdownSamarkand, round eight, women's section, China leading 15/16 — that was all t...
