Chess
The 5.e5! Push in the Italian Game: A Club Weapon and Its Two-Way BurdenIn a small chess club playing hall tucked deep in an alley off Nguyen Thien...
Bent Larsen on the Cover, Prague 2026 Inside: The Gap Between Promise and Content in a Chess MagazineI opened the package on my desk in Hai Phong on a March afternoon, while the...
The Modern Variation of the Italian Game: Sarana's King Walk and the Sveshnikov LessonIn a game at the Olympiad, Alexei Sarana moved his white king off its startin...
Boards Three and Four: Savitha Shri, the 5/5, and the Paradox of the Samarkand Chess OlympiadOn the sixth night of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, after the Indian...
Pragg beats Giri, Gukesh shines: India beat Netherlands 3-1 at 2026 Chess OlympiadThe fortunes of the Indian men's and women's chess teams at the 2026 Chess...
Samarkand After Round Four: The U.S. Women Lead on 15/16 Board Points, and the Najdorf Keeps Being RewrittenIn Samarkand, when Round 4 closed, the United States women's team board-point...
Samarkand Round 4 and ChessBase Magazine #225: What Really Sits Behind the Eight-Way Tie HeadlineOn a small cafe on Nguyen Du Street in Saigon, there is a chessboard by the...
Gukesh on Board 4 at the Chess Olympiad: A Team Move, or a Data Signal Read Wrong?Samarkand, the opening rounds of the Chess Olympiad. On board four sits a man...
The Move 9...a5 and the Promise of 'No Memorisation': An Unverified AntidoteOn a Saturday, after the last games at a small chess club on Nguyen Thien Thu...
Rosenstein, FIDE and the promise to bring Carlsen back: inside the Samarkand voteOn September 26, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, delegates of the national chess...
FIDE presidential vote on September 26: The pledge to bring Carlsen back, and an unresolved conflict-of-interest fileOn September 26, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, FIDE's member federations will vot...
The Contract Without a Player: Fan Data and the Invisible Transfer WindowOn the night of July 15, 2026, in a small apartment on Petrogradskaya Avenue ...
The Game With No Moves: The Void Pakistan Left in SamarkandOn the afternoon of September 15, 2026, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, a chess clo...
The Vacant Chess Throne and the Indian Wave: A Power Map in MotionSt. Petersburg, one October evening. Outside, the Neva is beginning to freeze...
When the Data Sheet Is Blank: Sportswriting and the Temptation to Fill the Void with Memory5:40 a.m. in Binh Duong, the flat still dark, the coffee still hot. I opened ...
Pakistan boycotts Israel match at the 2026 Chess Olympiad: a game with no moves and an unpriced costIn Samarkand, on the opening day of the 46th World Chess Olympiad, a match wa...
Samarkand 2026: Four Boards, One Generation, and the Empty StandsBudapest, September 2026. When the clock on the final board stopped, a...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh to play on board 4 for India; Humpy leads women's teamWhen a seventeen-year-old prodigy does not yet know he is about to become a...
The Samarkand Torch and Three Names That Need VerificationWhen the 2026 Chess Olympiad torch was placed in Javokhir Sindarov's hands in...
