Chess
Gukesh's Houdini Escape in Samarkand, but India's Gold Race Now Rests on One Shoulder
The Receipt Shows Seven Wins. It Names No Opponents.
Samarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: Anatomy of a Mislabelled Chess File
When the Headline Is One Game and the Body Is Another Ad: Samarkand's Result and the Sixty-Minute Scandinavian
Gukesh's Houdini Escape in Samarkand, but India's Gold Race Now Rests on One ShoulderIt is one in the morning. On a Penang balcony, blue laptop light sits on wet...
The Receipt Shows Seven Wins. It Names No Opponents.The Thursday round at Samarkand took almost five hours to finish. When the...
Samarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: Anatomy of a Mislabelled Chess FileThe report from Samarkand's eighth round landed on my desk at eleven at night...
When the Headline Is One Game and the Body Is Another Ad: Samarkand's Result and the Sixty-Minute ScandinavianA headline landed in my morning feed: "Samarkand R8 (open): Germany stun...
Samarkand in the Filename, Prague in the File: Chess Media's Metadata Gap and the Training EconomyLast week a filename stopped me cold. It read: Samarkand, Round 8, women's te...
The Scandinavian Defense: A Sixty-Minute Sword Over a Seventeen-Year Empty BoardIn the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi, my notebook filled 212 pages....
Samarkand Round 8, a 60-Minute Course, and the Pipeline We Never BuiltHalf past midnight. The headline hangs on the phone screen — at Round 8 in...
The Sword of Damocles: The Scandinavian Defense, a 60-Minute Course and Carlsen's NameThe clock reads fourteen minutes, and the black queen sits on a5. There is no...
The Headline Announced a Samarkand Result; the Body Was Selling a 60-Minute CourseTen past one at night in a Chittaranjan Park flat in Delhi. The laptop screen...
The Chart With the Wrong Name: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Physiology Inside Training Material, and the Gap Between Headline and Content1. Hook: The Chart With the Wrong Name Last week I stopped while turning a pa...
Samarkand's Result, a 60-Minute Video: A Report Detached From Its Own BodyAt 1:40 a.m. at my Bangalore desk, a feed item surfaced: “Samarkand R8 (open)...