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A Clutch Chess Headline, a Lilov Course: The Arithmetic of Borrowed Names
The Headline Says Capablanca, the Body Says 9...a5: A Content-Integrity Audit of a Chess Product Page
The Prague 2026 Ledger: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and the Column Nobody Filed
First Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Blank Scoresheet
ChessA Clutch Chess Headline, a Lilov Course: The Arithmetic of Borrowed NamesAt 2 a.m. in my Singapore flat I opened a tab that promised Clutch Chess in...
ChessThe Headline Says Capablanca, the Body Says 9...a5: A Content-Integrity Audit of a Chess Product PageA headline caught my eye last week on an opening-content page. Large type: "A...
ChessChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026 Notes, 27 Miniatures and an Audit of the LedgerTwenty-seven. It sits on the front of the product page before anything else —...
ChessPrague Festival 2026: A Laser Audit of 27 MiniaturesWhen Ediz Gurel's 19-move game opened on my screen, I did not write praise...
ChessThe Prague 2026 Ledger: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and the Column Nobody FiledPrague, the playing hall at Hotel Don Giovanni. On that March afternoon one...
ChessPrague's 27 Miniatures and the Page Nobody Fills InThe 225th issue of ChessBase Magazine was open on my desk in Delhi and I was...
ChessFirst Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Blank Scoresheet13 May 2026. A room whose walls we cannot see — a prison classroom, or the...
ChessAn IM Claim at Age 11: Seven Games, a 2,465 Performance, and a Date That Will Not ReconcileOn board one in the final round of a tournament that ended on 23 October, an...
ChessEleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: 5.5/7 on Board One and the Age Arithmetic of an IM NormFinal round, 23 October, board one, black pieces. The report said an advantag...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Package Sells Maintenance, Not TheoryOne tab was open on my Hyderabad desk that night — Daniel King's sixty-minute...
ChessThe Najdorf Update's Scoresheet: 60 Minutes, Five Lines and an Unresolved Evidence ProblemA club player asked in chat whether he should buy the new FritzTrainer Najdor...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents and a Missing PGN: Reading the Ledger of the First Continental Chess Championship for PrisonersOn 13 May 2026 the First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners began,...
ChessThe First Continental Prison Chess Chapter: 77 Teams on the Ledger, Not One Game on FileOn 13 May 2026 I asked for one thing: the game file. What came back was an...
ChessBudva's 2715 and 108 vs 22: The European Club Cup Arithmetic That Never Makes the HeadlineOctober 2026. An evening in Budva. There was salt in the Adriatic air and 108...