Chess
The Promise of 5.e5!: Is Erigaisi's Game a Club Weapon, or a Mirage?
Not Samarkand but Prague: A Mislabelled File and the Quiet Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Ledger Behind a Training Package, and a Title That Did Not Add Up
A King's Walk, Five Grandmasters, and the Arithmetic of One Line
The Promise of 5.e5!: Is Erigaisi's Game a Club Weapon, or a Mirage?5.e5! — a single move that changes the equation in the center. Black's...
A King's Walk, Five Grandmasters, and the Arithmetic of One LineIn chess the king stays home. It does not walk, because when it walks the...
When the King Goes Walking: Sarana’s Olympiad Tale and the Trap-Ledger of 5 e5!When a king goes for a walk, two things are usually happening: either the kin...
The King Walks, the Move List Doesn't: The Headline Gap in a Grandmaster WeaponThe headline says Alexei Sarana took his king for a walk at the Olympiad. The...
From the Scotch Gambit to the Modern Italian: Three Questions in the 5.e5! Line, and the Empty Ledger of Sarana's King Walk11:40 pm, Mumbai. Three tabs open: an opening explorer, a game database, a...
Not Samarkand but Prague: A Mislabelled File and the Quiet Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225The file was called ‘Samarkand R8 (women): China lead with 15/16’. It was...
A World Champion on Board Four: India's Gold Rush Rests on One Shoulder in SamarkandIt is 2:40 a.m. in Khulna. The fan of a 2026 laptop is grinding, the router h...
Gukesh's Houdini Act in Samarkand: The Fragile Foundation of India's Golden DefenseIn the heart of Samarkand, as the world watches the 2026 Chess Olympiad, D...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Ledger Behind a Training Package, and a Title That Did Not Add UpLast week a file landed in my inbox. The headline said Samarkand, round eight...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A New Block in the Training Market, and the Headline Gap Nobody ReconciledSamarkand, round eight, women's section, China leading with 15/16. The headli...
Sixty-Minute Promises and a Missing Samarkand: Who Put the Wrong Board in Chess's Feed?The headline in my feed read: "Samarkand R8 (open): Germany stun Uzbekistan,...
Seven Games, One Ledger: How Savitha's 7/7 Opened Chess's Invisible Account BookHook: The clock everyone forgot By Thursday evening in Samarkand, every clock...