Chess
Samarkand R8: Germany's Upset, Uzbekistan's Fall, and Carlsen's Scandinavian Marketing
Seven Wins in Seven Games, a Father's Savings Gone in Three Years: Savitha Shri, Samarkand and the Cash Ledger of Chess Development
Samarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a File With No Source
A ChessBase Receipt Under Samarkand's Name: The Metadata Gap in Issue #225 and the Real Arithmetic of the Training Market
ChessSamarkand R8: Germany's Upset, Uzbekistan's Fall, and Carlsen's Scandinavian MarketingThe headline says Germany stunned Uzbekistan in Round 8 of the Samarkand Open...
ChessSeven Wins in Seven Games, a Father's Savings Gone in Three Years: Savitha Shri, Samarkand and the Cash Ledger of Chess DevelopmentSamarkand's 7/7 Samarkand's team scoreboard carried a number that does not lo...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: The Ledger of a File With No SourceI laid the board out, and the pattern had been waiting. The first sentence of...
ChessA ChessBase Receipt Under Samarkand's Name: The Metadata Gap in Issue #225 and the Real Arithmetic of the Training MarketI opened the file at half past eleven at night on a Mumbai desk, after the...
ChessSavitha Shri's Seven Wins and Her Father's Three Years: The Ledger Doesn't Balance at Samarkand's Fifth BoardA folded scoresheet on board five in Samarkand still carried a dried ring of...
ChessChessBase Magazine 225: A New Training Edition with Chess Festival Prague 2026 AnalysisChessBase has released the 225th edition of its widely used training magazine...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, A Prague Document: Forensics of a Mislabeled Chess RecordTwo Sentences That Refuse to Speak to Each Other The page reached my desk in...
ChessThe Scandinavian Defense: A 60-Minute Course, Thirteen Claims, and an Unsettled Carlsen LedgerThirteen lines of promotional copy. One video course. The title says Sword of...
ChessSavitha Shri: 7/7 from Board Five, and a Father's Savings Ledger That Ran Out in Under Three YearsOn that Thursday in Samarkand, two clocks were telling two different stories....
ChessA Savings Runway That Died in Three Years: Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Invisible Bill of Chess DevelopmentThe Thursday round in Samarkand ran nearly five hours. Two opposite stories...
ChessSword of Damocles: The 60-Minute Promise and the Tempo Debt at 3...Qa5Last month, around 2 a.m., a club player sent me a link to a course. The firs...