Chess
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and a Savings Runway Burned in Three Years: India's Depth, Bangladesh's Empty Board
Seven from Seven: Savitha Shri's Board, Her Father's Passbook, and an Incomplete Sample
One Headline, Two Games: Samarkand Round 8 and a 60-Minute Scandinavian
Seven Wins from the Fifth Board: Savitha Shri in Samarkand, and a Savings Account That Ran Out in Three Years
ChessSeven from Seven: Savitha Shri's Board, Her Father's Passbook, and an Incomplete SampleThe clock in the Samarkand hall had crossed five hours. On the same Thursday,...
ChessOne Headline, Two Games: Samarkand Round 8 and a 60-Minute ScandinavianThe headline sent me hunting for the Round 8 scoreboard in Samarkand — German...
ChessSeven Wins from the Fifth Board: Savitha Shri in Samarkand, and a Savings Account That Ran Out in Three YearsThe fifth board at the Samarkand chess hall is almost always the corner one....
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Unfinished Ledger of the Scandinavian DefenseI spent a club evening in Mymensingh counting the clock, not the moves. Black...
ChessOne Hour of the Scandinavian: The Chess Course That Sells a Queen's TempoIn a club game in Feni the clock read 51 minutes for White, 12 for Black. Bla...
ChessSamarkand Round 8, a 60-Minute Scandinavian and the Headline–Body Fracture: The Verification Crisis in Chess's Information LedgerA feed scroll stopped mid-motion last month. The headline was short, clean an...
ChessA Samarkand Result in the Headline, a Sixty-Minute Scandinavian in the Body: The Subtle Lesson of a Mislabelled Chess PageThree in the morning. On the screen of a secondhand laptop in a Mymensingh...
ChessSamarkand R8: Germany–Uzbekistan in the Headline, a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course InsideHook I laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. A file labelled...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: Where Chess's Information Chain BreaksIt was half past midnight in Delhi. I closed the track-and-arena desk, opened...
ChessSix Videos, Seven Openings, Zero Sources: A Balance Sheet for the Word 'Dangerous' in Club ChessTwo objects sat on the same page. At the top, a headline: "Chess is something...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 and a Savings Runway Burned in Three Years: India's Depth, Bangladesh's Empty BoardSeven. Seven games, seven wins, zero draws, zero losses. I always write the...