Chess
The Najdorf Vault, and Its Expiry Date
Prison Chess: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Title With No Scorecard
Prague's 27-Miniature Special: Where ChessBase Magazine #225 Hides the Real Training Ledger
Prague's Chess Festival and Its Untold Story: When 27 Miniatures Became the New Path for Club Players
Prague's 27-Miniature Special: Where ChessBase Magazine #225 Hides the Real Training LedgerOn the third day of the Prague festival I was on a screen, not in the hall. I...
Prague's Chess Festival and Its Untold Story: When 27 Miniatures Became the New Path for Club PlayersOn the final day of the Prague Chess Festival, when the lights in the hall we...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: A Data-Driven Review of ChessBase Magazine #22527 miniatures. That many short, decisive games in a single tournament issue...
The Twenty-Seven Miniatures of Prague 2026, and What an Annotation Is WorthThe loudest sound in a chess hall is a set of pieces going back into the box....
Prague's Twenty-Seven Miniatures: The Square Where Preparation Asymmetry Shows Up by Move TwentyIt was eleven at night in Hyderabad and there were twenty-seven games in a...
Prague's 27 Miniatures: Where the Win Was Recorded Before the Scoresheet ArrivedPrague, March. The first-floor tournament hall at the Don Giovanni Hotel was...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's Laboratory, 27 Miniatures, and the Job India Hasn't Taken YetThe parcel arrived in a plastic sleeve. Inside was a booklet — matte paper,...
The Najdorf Vault, and Its Expiry DateThe Najdorf Vault, and Its Expiry Date 2:17 a.m. In a one-bedroom in Andheri,...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Not a Single Move on Record: What FIDE's Prison Chess Event Actually ProvesOn the morning of 13 May 2026, the opening round of the First Continental Che...
The Najdorf Repertoire Update: Sixty Minutes That Sell Maintenance, Not CoachingOn a Najdorf board, the most reliable object is my one-page space map — never...
Prison Chess: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Title With No ScorecardThirteenth of May, 2026. A makeshift room inside a correctional facility — on...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Scoresheet That Will Never Be PublishedHook No ceremony attends the laying out of a board in a prison education room...
The Najdorf Ledger: 60 Minutes, Five Branches and the Decay Cycle of TheoryI watched from the tribune, then went back to measure what the eyes had misse...
Behind Carlsen's 'Humans Aren't That Good at Chess': A Price Announcement, Not a ConfessionThe most expensive paragraph in the interview that Marca published on October...