Chess
The Empty Board in Samarkand: Pakistan's Forfeit Against Israel and the Cost Beyond the ScoreboardThe clock never started. That is the detail I keep longest when reading the...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh to Play on Board 4 for India; Humpy Leads Women's TeamWhen India's squad for the Chess Olympiad was announced, the name on board 4...
Samarkand 2026: Defending Champions India Left Without Hotel Rooms Before Round OneThe plane carrying the Indian chess team landed in Samarkand, Uzbekistan....
ChessBase Reviews Its Own Products in August: The Content Machine and the Question of Real Value in the Chess Training MarketIn ChessBase's August release list, among titles on calculation,...
The Bayonet Attack and 9...a5: The Promise of a King's Indian Repertoire Without MemorisationThe clock on the wall reads 0:47. On the wooden board in front of me sits the...
Samarkand 2026: When a Hotel Room Becomes the Most Dangerous Move Before Round OneThere is a number that kept me at my screen near midnight: five hours. That i...
Petroff Defence Update as Skills Dominate ChessBase's August 2026 CatalogueIn the August 2026 catalogue of new products released by ChessBase, amid a ru...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, Central Asia and the Unverified NumbersOn September 16, 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, when the first chess clock o...
Samarkand, Sindarov and the Titles That Need VerificationThe press room in New Delhi went silent for exactly half a breath before the...
Behind the Elo Board: Vietnamese Chess and the Data Question After the Gukesh EraI watched the final game of the 2026 world chess championship in Singapore on...
ChessBase's August Release: The Petroff, Two Positional Courses, and the Limits of a CatalogueUnveiling speed, I meet a whole generation on the run — and this time they ru...
The Samarkand Torch: Three Names That Should Have Been Verified Before the Flame Was PassedThe flame has changed hands. In Samarkand, where blue ceramic domes have kept...
Samarkand 2026: India and the Chessboard of a Generation in TransitionI remember that evening in Budapest, when the electronic scoreboard of the 20...
When a Forty-Page Analysis Holds Not One Single FactOn a late-October morning, I opened a forty-page file about a chess tournamen...
