Chess
ChessA 2465 Performance, Seven Rounds and One Headline: How Firmly Does the 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Stand?2026-10-25I found the result in row 214 before I trusted the headline. This time the...
ChessRachel Li's 'Stunning Win' and the Scandinavian Defense: When the Headline Isn't the News2026-10-24I begin with a number. The headline contains a win—Rachel Li's 'stunning win'...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Empty Column in the Prisoners' Chess Championship2026-10-25In September 2026 my editor handed me the Anand–Kasparov PCA title match at t...
ChessThe 60-Minute Najdorf Update File: Repertoire Maintenance, Not New Theoretical Ground2026-10-25In a Kolhapur academy room in December 2026, a sixteen-year-old rated around...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures and Ten Opening Articles: The Ledger on ChessBase Magazine #225, and the Three Numbers It Does Not Print2026-10-25Twenty-seven. That is the number printed in the 'Special' section of ChessBas...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Empty Column in the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipIn September 2026 my editor handed me the Anand–Kasparov PCA title match at t...
The 60-Minute Najdorf Update File: Repertoire Maintenance, Not New Theoretical GroundIn a Kolhapur academy room in December 2026, a sixteen-year-old rated around...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Ten Opening Articles: The Ledger on ChessBase Magazine #225, and the Three Numbers It Does Not PrintTwenty-seven. That is the number printed in the 'Special' section of ChessBas...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Review That Forgot to Date ItselfEleven forty at night. A two-hundred-square-foot club room in Bengaluru — fou...
A 2465 Performance, Seven Rounds and One Headline: How Firmly Does the 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Stand?I found the result in row 214 before I trusted the headline. This time the...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update and the Arithmetic That Never Reaches the Sales PageNovember 2026, Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata. I was seventeen, I skipped two...
The 23 October Score Sheet: An Eleven-Year-Old, a 2465 Performance, and an IM Claim Still Waiting for Its Papers23 October. Board one. Seven rounds. Five wins, one draw, one loss — five and...
Age 11, Performance Rating 2,465: The Case File on an IM NormFrom the press box, the game looks like a confession with moving parts. The...
The FritzTrainer File: Sixty Minutes on the Najdorf and the Page Missing From the ReceiptThe file listed three things. Runtime: sixty minutes. Language: English....
An IM norm at 11 years 7 months: the 2,465 performance, one gambit line, and the question now placed in front of India23 October 2026, board one. An eleven-year-old with the black pieces, a...
A Najdorf Headline, an Elephant Gambit Product: Auditing the Ledger of a 60-Minute Chess CourseLast Tuesday, on the third floor of a club in south Kolkata, I heard the same...
The Elephant in the Room: A 60-Minute Gambit and the Claim of a Full RepertoireWhen I opened the description of this course last month, the headline said...
Rachel Li's 'Stunning Win' and the Scandinavian Defense: When the Headline Isn't the NewsI begin with a number. The headline contains a win—Rachel Li's 'stunning win'...