Chess
e5!: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap, and the Ledger of an Empty Room
Samarkand in the Headline, a Product List Inside the File: One Metadata Gap in Chess Media
Misdiagnosis: Samarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 Miniatures
Savitha Shri: How a Father's Career Gamble Built a Chess Olympiad Hero
5.e5!: The Market Price of a Move, Erigaisi's Name, and the Arithmetic of Blind Faith
ChessBase Magazine #225: Seven Names, Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Ledger of a Mislabelled Title
e5!: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap, and the Ledger of an Empty RoomA photocopied scoresheet sits on my desk, and a coffee ring has dried into th...
5.e5!: The Market Price of a Move, Erigaisi's Name, and the Arithmetic of Blind FaithHook Four moves in, the board looks almost harmless. A knight on c6, a knight...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Seven Names, Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Ledger of a Mislabelled TitleThe title of ChessBase Magazine #225 stops you mid-step: Samarkand, a women's...
Five Hours, 54 Moves, One Lost Position: How Sustainable Is India's Title Defence in Samarkand?At the tables in Samarkand I do not count moves. I count hours. In Round 9 of...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Interior: In Chess Training, Metadata Has Become the ProductIt was 2:40 in the morning in a Saint Petersburg flat, snow collecting on the...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Product List Inside the File: One Metadata Gap in Chess MediaI opened the file for one reason. The headline said Samarkand, round eight,...
The Sword of Damocles: You Can Buy an Opening in Sixty Minutes, Not a PositionIt was nearly three in the morning in Mymensingh. On the screen of a...
Misdiagnosis: Samarkand's 15/16 and Prague's 27 MiniaturesLast week in a Boston flat, I spent nearly two hours trying to reconcile a...
From Prague to Mymensingh: The Gap That Shows Up While Reading ChessBase Magazine #225It is half past three in the morning. In a room in Mymensingh, the second-han...
Savitha Shri's Seven Wins: The Reserve Board at Samarkand and a Savings Runway That Died in Three YearsThe Thursday round at Samarkand ran close to five hours. Two boards from the...
Savitha Shri: How a Father's Career Gamble Built a Chess Olympiad HeroThis is a deep Bengali feature article about Savitha Shri, the 19-year-old...
Not Five Years but Three: Savitha Shri's Seven Wins and the Broken Budget of a Chess FamilyThe father in Chennai never wrote the plan down, but the plan existed. Quit t...