Chess
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Gap Nobody Counts in Black's Repertoire
No One Named Egon Mattaaq Exists: The Scotch Game, Fear for Sale, and the Open Ledger of Opening Theory
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 on the Board: The Ledger of Chess Reporting
Samarkand Round 7, a Headline Sold as Ad Space, and the Ledger Chess Never Kept
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 on the Board: The Ledger of Chess ReportingI went looking for the round-seven report from the Samarkand open and came ba...
Samarkand Round 7, a Headline Sold as Ad Space, and the Ledger Chess Never Kept6:22 in the evening in Boston. Snow over the parking lot outside the window, ...
The Two Clocks That Never Moved in Samarkand: Yom Kippur, Consent Rules and the Paper Gap in the OlympiadHook: The Round Where the Clocks Started and No Move Was Played It was nearly...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Gap Nobody Counts in Black's RepertoireTwo numbers sit next to each other on the ChessBase '26 page for part 32 of...
No One Named Egon Mattaaq Exists: The Scotch Game, Fear for Sale, and the Open Ledger of Opening TheoryA winter evening in Delhi, an old product page open on the laptop screen. The...
The Ledger of a Blank Page: The Day Bangladesh's Chess Stopped at Five Grandmasters1. Hook: The Notebook from Batumi September 2026, Batumi, Georgia. The 43rd...
Chess Olympiad Round 5: Pragg Toppled Giri, Gukesh Won Again — But the Ledger Behind India's 5/5 Says Something ElseThe score sheet for Round 5 landed on my desk, and the first thing I looked a...