Chess
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: Why the Prison Chess Championship Left an Empty Data Trail
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: The Tiebreak Math, the Transfer File, and the Course Selling Under the Headline
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: The Count Hidden in ChessBase Magazine #225
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update and the Quiet Work of Repertoire Maintenance
Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Labour Ledger of Chess
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet Nobody Published
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026: The Count Hidden in ChessBase Magazine #225The contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 took me three passes. The first...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update and the Quiet Work of Repertoire Maintenance"Some stories arrive as carbon copies, then ask to be written in pencil."...
Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Labour Ledger of ChessThe loudest sound in that Prague hall was not the pieces. It was the lid goin...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet Nobody PublishedSeventy-seven teams from five continents sat down at a chess tournament betwe...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: Why the Prison Chess Championship Left an Empty Data Trail77 teams. Five continents. Three sections. Eleven days. And the number of...
The Headline Says Najdorf, the Product Is an Elephant: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Gambit CourseI went looking for the score and found a headline arguing with its own body....
The Second-Move Gamble: Elephant Gambit, Sixty Minutes, and a Headline Selling Another OpeningOn board three, Black pushes the pawn to d5 on move two. White thinks for abo...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: The Tiebreak Math, the Transfer File, and the Course Selling Under the HeadlineThe headline landed first. In October 2026, Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update and the Quiet Work of Repertoire Maintenance"Some stories arrive as carbon copies, then ask to be written in pencil."...
Prague's 27 Miniatures and the Labour Ledger of ChessThe loudest sound in that Prague hall was not the pieces. It was the lid goin...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Scoresheet Nobody PublishedSeventy-seven teams from five continents sat down at a chess tournament betwe...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: Why the Prison Chess Championship Left an Empty Data Trail77 teams. Five continents. Three sections. Eleven days. And the number of...
The Headline Says Najdorf, the Product Is an Elephant: Auditing a Sixty-Minute Gambit CourseI went looking for the score and found a headline arguing with its own body....
The Second-Move Gamble: Elephant Gambit, Sixty Minutes, and a Headline Selling Another OpeningOn board three, Black pushes the pawn to d5 on move two. White thinks for abo...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: The Tiebreak Math, the Transfer File, and the Course Selling Under the HeadlineThe headline landed first. In October 2026, Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in...