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27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Room Bangladesh Never Filled
Samarkand in the Headline, a 60-Minute Course in the Body: Chess News and Its Cracked Mirror
Gukesh's Houdini Act Keeps India in Gold Race, But the Fragile Foundation's Arithmetic
A Pawn on e5, a Missing King in the Headline
Board Four in Samarkand: The Houdini Act That Hides the Real Crisis
Gukesh's Houdini Act Keeps India in Gold Race, But the Fragile Foundation's ArithmeticGukesh's Houdini Act Keeps India in Gold Race, But the Fragile Foundation's...
A Pawn on e5, a Missing King in the HeadlineOn a 2026 evening in the Purana Paltan press room, eleven reporters sat in th...
Board Four in Samarkand: The Houdini Act That Hides the Real CrisisFive hours and twenty minutes into round nine in the Samarkand hall, both...
The Samarkand Ledger: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Single-Point Gold ArithmeticHook: A Five-Hour Lost Position, and Three Draws Alongside It In the Samarkan...
54 Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape and India's Single-Board DependenceSamarkand's playing hall clock has passed five and a half hours. In a flat in...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Mislabelled LedgerLate last Wednesday, close to half past eleven at night, I pulled open an old...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Room Bangladesh Never Filled27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Room Bangladesh Never Filled An...
Behind Seven Wins, a Three-Year Ledger: Samarkand's Reserve Board and a Family's Exhausted SavingsThe fifth hour in Samarkand. The clock should have settled, and so should the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Samarkand Headline, A Prague BodyHalf past eleven at night in a Khulna flat. A file name glows on the laptop...
The Headline Says Samarkand Round 8, the Body Sells a 60-Minute Video: An Audit of Source IntegrityOn a Monday evening at my Mumbai desk I opened a file whose headline read:...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Actually DocumentsI opened the file expecting a standings table. The headline said China led...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase on the Page: 27 Miniatures and One Missing EventTwo documents were open side by side on my desk. The one on top said:...
Samarkand in the Headline, a 60-Minute Course in the Body: Chess News and Its Cracked MirrorHalf past midnight in Mymensingh. The tea beside the laptop has gone cold, an...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: The Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225 and an Information FractureIt was past midnight. In a Mumbai flat I opened a file whose headline promise...
A Pawn on e5, a Missing King in the HeadlineOn a 2026 evening in the Purana Paltan press room, eleven reporters sat in th...
Board Four in Samarkand: The Houdini Act That Hides the Real CrisisFive hours and twenty minutes into round nine in the Samarkand hall, both...
The Samarkand Ledger: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Single-Point Gold ArithmeticHook: A Five-Hour Lost Position, and Three Draws Alongside It In the Samarkan...
54 Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape and India's Single-Board DependenceSamarkand's playing hall clock has passed five and a half hours. In a flat in...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Mislabelled LedgerLate last Wednesday, close to half past eleven at night, I pulled open an old...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Room Bangladesh Never Filled27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and the Room Bangladesh Never Filled An...
Behind Seven Wins, a Three-Year Ledger: Samarkand's Reserve Board and a Family's Exhausted SavingsThe fifth hour in Samarkand. The clock should have settled, and so should the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Samarkand Headline, A Prague BodyHalf past eleven at night in a Khulna flat. A file name glows on the laptop...
The Headline Says Samarkand Round 8, the Body Sells a 60-Minute Video: An Audit of Source IntegrityOn a Monday evening at my Mumbai desk I opened a file whose headline read:...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Actually DocumentsI opened the file expecting a standings table. The headline said China led...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase on the Page: 27 Miniatures and One Missing EventTwo documents were open side by side on my desk. The one on top said:...
Samarkand in the Headline, a 60-Minute Course in the Body: Chess News and Its Cracked MirrorHalf past midnight in Mymensingh. The tea beside the laptop has gone cold, an...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: The Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225 and an Information FractureIt was past midnight. In a Mumbai flat I opened a file whose headline promise...