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ChessGukesh's Houdini Escape: Is India's Gold Path in One Man's Hands?The ninth round of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand ended with D Gukesh...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Behind Gukesh's Houdini Act, the Real Fracture in India's Gold ChaseSamarkand Round 9: Behind Gukesh's Houdini Act, the Real Fracture in India's...
ChessPlaying 5.e5: Sarana's King Walk, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Decay of a Published WeaponPlaying 5.e5: Sarana's King Walk, Sveshnikov's Shadow, and the Decay of a...
Chess5.e5: The Sharp Italian Weapon and the Hole in Its LedgerAt half past three in the morning, the board in my Mymensingh bedroom froze....
ChessA President in the Headline, a DVD in the Body: What the Najdorf Update Actually SaysThe file arrived in two halves. The header line read: Timur Turlov elected...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Ledger of India's One-Man DependenceFive hours. At the board on Round 9 in Samarkand, the clock crossed the...
Chess5.e5! and the King Walk Nobody Filed: One Opening Column and Bangladesh's Chess Theory Deficit1. The King Walked, But Left No Footprints I opened the column in the back ro...
ChessThe Shadow of Board Four: Gukesh's 54 Moves in Samarkand and the Hole in India's ArithmeticThe score sheet in Samarkand read 2.5-1.5. India beat Germany in Round 9 of t...
ChessTwo Stories in One Document: Turlov's Presidential Headline and Daniel King's Najdorf FileLast Wednesday night at my Bangalore desk I opened the file. The first page h...
Chess5.e5: The Displaced Knight, the Missing Proof, and the Trap Set for Club PlayersHook — The Arithmetic of Five Moves Five moves. Written by hand, they take te...
ChessA Prague Letter in a Samarkand Envelope: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and Our Five-Grandmaster CeilingAt 1:40 a.m., in a back room in Mymensingh, an old laptop shows a loading...
ChessGukesh's Rescue Act on a Samarkand Screen: India's Gold Race Now Rests on One ShoulderOn a laptop screen in a Mymensingh bedroom, at three in the morning, the engi...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, a Scandinavian Course in the Body: The Empty Seat in Chess JournalismIt was 5:40 in the morning in a small hostel room in Penang. The laptop was...
ChessRound Eight in Samarkand, One Wrong Headline, and Sixty Minutes of the ScandinavianThere is a folder on my laptop called Samarkand. It is four years old. Inside...
