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ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Prague File: 27 Miniatures and a 19-Point Gap2026-09-26A Samarkand Headline, A Prague File: 27 Miniatures and a 19-Point Gap The fir...
ChessGame of the Week #740: The Notebook Economics Hanging on the 5.e5 Thread2026-09-27Two in the morning in a small Delhi flat, the ceiling fan turning, a chess...
ChessErigaisi's 5.e5! Attack: A Sharp Weapon for Club Level, or Just a 'Showcase' Game?2026-09-26Erigaisi's 5.e5! Attack: A Sharp Weapon for Club Level, or Just a 'Showcase'...
Game of the Week #740: The Notebook Economics Hanging on the 5.e5 ThreadTwo in the morning in a small Delhi flat, the ceiling fan turning, a chess...
Erigaisi's 5.e5! Attack: A Sharp Weapon for Club Level, or Just a 'Showcase' Game?Erigaisi's 5.e5! Attack: A Sharp Weapon for Club Level, or Just a 'Showcase'...
ChessBase Magazine 225: Prague Content Under Samarkand Headline; The Board Did Not ConnectSamarkand's Round 8 women's team event headline says China leads 15/16—a...
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague File: 27 Miniatures and a 19-Point GapA Samarkand Headline, A Prague File: 27 Miniatures and a 19-Point Gap The fir...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Elite Annotation, Screen-Board Fatigue, and a Mislabeled ChartThe file was labeled Samarkand, Round 8, women's section, China leading 15/16...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague in the File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess ContentThe War Between a Title and a File I opened the file at two in the morning on...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Real Price of Training ContentLast week I clicked a link at my desk in Mymensingh. The headline read:...
Samarkand or Prague: ChessBase #225 and the Quiet Economy of Chess TrainingI opened a file. The headline said Round 8 in Samarkand, a women's team event...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Course's Claim and the Board's LedgerLate January, half past eleven at night, on a balcony in Bangalore, a promo...
Samarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: Auditing a Mislabelled Fileplaceholder
Samarkand's 15/16 and Prague's #225: A Gap in Chess Content's LedgerThe file landed on my desk on a Monday night. The headline said: Samarkand,...
Seven Wins on the Fifth Board: Savitha's Samarkand Score and the Unwritten Cost of Chess TrainingIn my notebook, the eighth round of Samarkand occupies a separate page. In on...
A Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Page: Three Signals Hidden Inside a Mislabelled FileThe habit of sitting under the cold light of a newspaper archive goes back to...