Chess
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak to Win Fourth US Chess Championship Title
Two Golds, One Empty Desk: The Real Ledger of India's Chess Machine
IM at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance Rating, Seven Games, and a Date That Does Not Add Up
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Part of the Najdorf the Video Cannot Show
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Package Sells Maintenance, Not Theory
An IM Norm at 11 Years 7 Months: Vietnam's Prodigy, a 2465 Performance, and a Date Left Unresolved
Two Golds, One Empty Desk: The Real Ledger of India's Chess MachineBudapest, September 2026. A round before the last at the 45th Chess Olympiad,...
IM at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance Rating, Seven Games, and a Date That Does Not Add UpThe evening the report describes had black pieces on board one, and the girl...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Part of the Najdorf the Video Cannot ShowIn the two-hundred-square-foot room in Indiranagar, the rain light hit the...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Package Sells Maintenance, Not TheorySixty minutes, five line clusters, and eleven to twelve minutes per cluster....
An IM Norm at 11 Years 7 Months: Vietnam's Prodigy, a 2465 Performance, and a Date Left UnresolvedThe evening of 23 October. Board one. Seventh and final round. The 11-year-ol...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Empty Scorebook: What Is the Real Ledger of Prison Chess?Between 13 and 23 May 2026, under FIDE's Chess for Freedom initiative, the...
At Eleven and Sixteen Days: The International Master Grid Nobody DrewBefore the final move, she glanced at her clock — a gesture rarely seen in...
Five and a Half on Board One: An Eleven-Year-Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Verification Still PendingThere were Black pieces on board one in the seventh round. Across the board s...
Twenty-Seven Small Games, One Long Ledger: The Memory of Prague 2026In Prague, the most overlooked object beside the board is the arbiter's pen. ...
Eleven Years Old, a 2,465 Performance — and a Record Whose Paperwork Hasn't ArrivedIn the part of the night when the hall lights are already off and only the...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks — And the Different Ledger Running Beneath the HeadlineThe headline was clean. Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win hi...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreak to Win Fourth US Chess Championship TitleThe tiebreak scoresheet comes in a different colour. Across the paper trail I...
The Scoreboard That Did Not Exist: The 'Rachel Li' Headline, the Scandinavian Defense, and an Audit of Chess's Content Pipeline1. Hook A file landed on my desk a few days ago. The headline was clean:...