Chess
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Shelf Life of Theory and the Unequal Economy of Knowledge
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Scorecards: The Prison Chess Championship Ledger Its Organisers Left Half-Written
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Five Lines, One Maintenance Deal, and the Audit Nobody Runs
Eleven Years Old, Seven Boards, 2465: Vietnam's Prodigy, the IM Norm, and the Calendar Red Flag Nobody Is Writing About
77 Teams, Five Continents, and Two Names on the Same File
A 2,465 Performance and a Missing Bulletin: Auditing the 11-Year-Old's IM Claim
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Shelf Life of Theory and the Unequal Economy of KnowledgeOn the third shelf of a steel almirah in a coaching centre in Ahmedabad sits ...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf: Five Lines, One Maintenance Deal, and the Audit Nobody RunsOn the seventh floor of a building in Andheri, at 11:40 pm, a 1740-rated club...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero Scorecards: The Prison Chess Championship Ledger Its Organisers Left Half-Written13 May 2026. A tournament begins, and its own file cannot agree on what to ca...
ChessEleven Years Old, Seven Boards, 2465: Vietnam's Prodigy, the IM Norm, and the Calendar Red Flag Nobody Is Writing AboutIn the final round on 23 October she had the black pieces. She took a pawn ou...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, and Two Names on the Same FileThe paper that landed with me on the morning of 13 May 2026 said one thing at...
ChessA 2,465 Performance and a Missing Bulletin: Auditing the 11-Year-Old's IM ClaimThe number eleven sits third in my notebook. 2,465 sits first. Seven games,...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: What the Tiebreak Actually MeasuredI went looking for the score and found a syllabus. Wesley So won his fourth U...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — and Not One Scoresheet: Auditing the First Continental Chess Championship for PrisonersStatus: provisional. Verification window: 13 May 2026 to 14 December 2026....
ChessEleven Years Old on Board One: 5.5/7, a 2465 Performance, and the Ledger Behind an 'IM' HeadlineThe last round of October 23. Board one. Black pieces. Across the table,...
ChessPrisoners' Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Data Nobody Published77 teams. Five continents. Three sections — Open, Women's and Youth. These ar...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level in the Open After Three Rounds — So Why Does the Headline Say 'Three Co-Leaders'?Eleven. Not three. That is the number sitting in front of me after three roun...
ChessA Najdorf Label on an Elephant Gambit Product: The 60-Minute Course and the Preparation EconomyThe first clue was a headline that did not match its own contents. The page...
ChessThe Headline With No Player In It: A Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Defence and an Unverified CrownAhmedabad, February 12, 2026. The document on my desk opens with a claim:...