Chess
Board One, One Scoresheet and a Broken Calendar: Inside the IM Claim of an 11-Year-Old
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, Not One Game Count: What the Najdorf Repertoire Update Review Never Measured
The 11-Year-Old IM Claim: A 2465 Performance, a 23 October 2026 Date, and the Burden of Proof
Caruana and Nakamura in the Headline, a Course in the Body: Chess's Content-Commerce Economy
A 2026 Gold Medal and a 9...a5 Sales Pitch: When the Headline and the Board Stopped Sharing a Page
Caruana and Nakamura in the Headline, a Course in the Body: Chess's Content-Commerce EconomyA chess story crossed my screen. The headline carried “Clutch Chess” in Saint...
A 2026 Gold Medal and a 9...a5 Sales Pitch: When the Headline and the Board Stopped Sharing a PageEleven at night, Delhi. My desk held the clock log from the 2026 Delhi...
Board One, One Scoresheet and a Broken Calendar: Inside the IM Claim of an 11-Year-Old23 October, board one, final round. She had black. A gambit line, a pawn up, ...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, Not One Game Count: What the Najdorf Repertoire Update Review Never MeasuredSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Eleven to twelve minutes each. That is the...
The 11-Year-Old IM Claim: A 2465 Performance, a 23 October 2026 Date, and the Burden of ProofAt a Delhi open I once counted more than 400 boards in one hall. The loudest...
Seven Games, a 2,465 Performance and a Missing Scoresheet: Hand-Drawing the Grid Behind an IM Claim at ElevenFinal round, board one, black pieces. A gambit line whose name the report doe...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The 27 Prague Miniatures Are a Record of Error, Not BrillianceTwenty-seven. In issue 225 of ChessBase Magazine that is the loudest number o...
Updating the Najdorf Repertoire: 60 Minutes, Five Lines, and the Maintenance Economics of Chess Opening TheoryIn a club tournament in Pune I watched a 2026-rated player flip through a thi...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update and the Silence Nobody WeighedSixty minutes. Five line clusters. One download, in English, and not a single...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Format That Beat Caruana, and the Empty Board of CoverageIn the fourth rapid game of the tiebreak, Wesley So played a move that no...
Maintaining the Najdorf: 60 minutes, five lines, and the question the review didn't askSixty minutes of video, five line-clusters, and just over twelve minutes per...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Title: The Tiebreak Arithmetic, and the 89% the Headline Left OutMy notes record nine information points behind this story. One of them concer...