Chess
The Prague 2026 Ledger: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Moves the Scoresheet Won't Tell You2026-10-25Hook When the Prague Chess Festival 2026 game file landed on my desk, I did n...
The Prison Chess Championship: A Scale of 77 Teams, Evidence of None2026-10-25A Number, and the Empty Space Behind It The first briefing reached me on 13 M...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Counting That Beat Caruana in the Tiebreak, Not on the Classical Board2026-10-24There is a column in my ledger reserved for tiebreaks. Four things go into it...
Najdorf Prep in 60 Minutes: Auditing a Training Course Through a Referee's Eye2026-10-25August 2026, the eighth round of the Chennai Olympiad. Defaulting a board-fou...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Repertoire Update and the Shelf-Life of Opening Theory2026-10-25Last month, at a chess club in Bangalore, I watched a man pause a video on hi...
Najdorf Prep in 60 Minutes: Auditing a Training Course Through a Referee's EyeAugust 2026, the eighth round of the Chennai Olympiad. Defaulting a board-fou...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Repertoire Update and the Shelf-Life of Opening TheoryLast month, at a chess club in Bangalore, I watched a man pause a video on hi...
The Prague 2026 Ledger: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Moves the Scoresheet Won't Tell YouHook When the Prague Chess Festival 2026 game file landed on my desk, I did n...
Najdorf Preparation Is a Maintenance Release: Daniel King's 60 Minutes and What India's Club Player Actually NeedsIn an academy hall in Hyderabad last month I found a spiral notebook: twelve...
The Najdorf Update and the 60-Minute Lease: In Chess, Preparation Is Not Sold — It Is RentedSixty minutes of video. Five line clusters. Roughly eleven to twelve minutes...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Who Daniel King's Update Package Is Built For, and Who It Isn't6.h3. The kid on the third floor of that Salt Lake club played it in nine...
Auditing the Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Lines and an Undated ReviewLast week I was standing behind a board at a Pune club. Four minutes were lef...
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Empty Column: Auditing the First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners77 teams. Five continents. And zero PGNs. Between May 13 and May 23, 2026,...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: How to Read the Receipt of an Opening RepertoireSixty minutes of download. Five line clusters. Do the arithmetic — roughly...
The Prison Chess Championship: A Scale of 77 Teams, Evidence of NoneA Number, and the Empty Space Behind It The first briefing reached me on 13 M...
Wesley So's Fourth Title: The Tiebreak Page, the Report's Gap, and the Wait for the FileWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win a fourth US Chess...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Counting That Beat Caruana in the Tiebreak, Not on the Classical BoardThere is a column in my ledger reserved for tiebreaks. Four things go into it...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Repertoire Update and the Shelf-Life of Opening TheoryLast month, at a chess club in Bangalore, I watched a man pause a video on hi...
The Prague 2026 Ledger: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Moves the Scoresheet Won't Tell YouHook When the Prague Chess Festival 2026 game file landed on my desk, I did n...
Najdorf Preparation Is a Maintenance Release: Daniel King's 60 Minutes and What India's Club Player Actually NeedsIn an academy hall in Hyderabad last month I found a spiral notebook: twelve...
The Najdorf Update and the 60-Minute Lease: In Chess, Preparation Is Not Sold — It Is RentedSixty minutes of video. Five line clusters. Roughly eleven to twelve minutes...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Who Daniel King's Update Package Is Built For, and Who It Isn't6.h3. The kid on the third floor of that Salt Lake club played it in nine...
Auditing the Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Lines and an Undated ReviewLast week I was standing behind a board at a Pune club. Four minutes were lef...
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Empty Column: Auditing the First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners77 teams. Five continents. And zero PGNs. Between May 13 and May 23, 2026,...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: How to Read the Receipt of an Opening RepertoireSixty minutes of download. Five line clusters. Do the arithmetic — roughly...
The Prison Chess Championship: A Scale of 77 Teams, Evidence of NoneA Number, and the Empty Space Behind It The first briefing reached me on 13 M...
Wesley So's Fourth Title: The Tiebreak Page, the Report's Gap, and the Wait for the FileWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win a fourth US Chess...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Counting That Beat Caruana in the Tiebreak, Not on the Classical BoardThere is a column in my ledger reserved for tiebreaks. Four things go into it...