Chess
Samarkand on the Label, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Economics of Chess Training
Savitha Shri: Five-Hour Boards, Seven Wins, and a Father's Bank Passbook
The Sword of Damocles: The Ledger Behind Selling the Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes
Samarkand's Fifth Board: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Family's Three-Year Ledger
Samarkand on the Label, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Invisible Economics of Chess TrainingI opened a folder no one had opened in years. Usually it is paper — the...
Savitha Shri: Five-Hour Boards, Seven Wins, and a Father's Bank PassbookSamarkand, Thursday. Five hours have gone by in the hall. On my desk sits the...
The Sword of Damocles: The Ledger Behind Selling the Scandinavian Defense in 60 MinutesThirteen lines of course copy. The heaviest sentence claims the opening was...
Samarkand's Fifth Board: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Family's Three-Year LedgerLast Thursday in Samarkand, the clock on round nine of the 2026 Olympiad was...
The Sword of Damocles: The Scandinavian Defense, Sixty Minutes, and the Game Nobody CitedFrom a Mymensingh bedroom, I learned the stadium is only a screen. It was...
Samarkand R8 Women: The Wrong Address on the Headline and the Information Chain of ChessBase Magazine #225A headline stopped me: "Samarkand R8 (women): China lead with 15/16." I...