Chess
The Night Before the First Move in Samarkand: Champions Waiting for Rooms, and What the Board Truly EnduresI have heard the sound of a defender's boots on the empty Hoa Xuan pitch. I...
Samarkand Without Rooms: When India's Chess Champions Opened the Olympiad With a Game Off the BoardI counted five hours. Not five hours of a marathon, not five hours of a boxin...
Divya Deshmukh and R. Vaishali Are Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad: What Coach Misra Claimed and What the Data Still Has to ConfirmOn that day, in a short exchange with reporters, coach Misra said one tight...
Eight Analysis Layers, Not a Single Move: A Data-Integrity Lesson from an Empty Chess DossierOn August 13, 2026, at 9:40 a.m. Shenzhen time, a forty-two-page report lande...
Gukesh on Board 4: India's Hidden Move at the Chess OlympiadThere are moments in chess when a single number says more than a thousand wor...
Samarkand 2026: The Unopened Room and the Board Already LaidSamarkand 2026: The Unopened Room and the Board Already Laid Five hours. That...
"Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad": A Coach's Claim and the Data Test Behind ItThat night in Budapest, I sat in the eleventh row of the SYMA hall, close to...
When the Board Holds No Pieces: Chess Analysis Before the Storm of Empty DataIn Saint Petersburg, on the seventeenth of January, the temperature outside t...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: The Spatial Map of a Generational HandoverThere is a silence I always return to when analyzing a major game, and it is...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, Broadcast Rights and the Data GapsIn September 2026, in Budapest, I was in the hall when India completed a...
The Gap in Vietnamese Chess Archives — When a Game Leaves No TraceI typed the name of a national chess championship into the search field of an...
Samarkand Without Rooms: When India's Chess Champions Opened the Olympiad With a Game Off the BoardI counted five hours. Not five hours of a marathon, not five hours of a boxin...
Divya Deshmukh and R. Vaishali Are Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad: What Coach Misra Claimed and What the Data Still Has to ConfirmOn that day, in a short exchange with reporters, coach Misra said one tight...
Eight Analysis Layers, Not a Single Move: A Data-Integrity Lesson from an Empty Chess DossierOn August 13, 2026, at 9:40 a.m. Shenzhen time, a forty-two-page report lande...
Gukesh on Board 4: India's Hidden Move at the Chess OlympiadThere are moments in chess when a single number says more than a thousand wor...
Samarkand 2026: The Unopened Room and the Board Already LaidSamarkand 2026: The Unopened Room and the Board Already Laid Five hours. That...
"Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad": A Coach's Claim and the Data Test Behind ItThat night in Budapest, I sat in the eleventh row of the SYMA hall, close to...
When the Board Holds No Pieces: Chess Analysis Before the Storm of Empty DataIn Saint Petersburg, on the seventeenth of January, the temperature outside t...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: The Spatial Map of a Generational HandoverThere is a silence I always return to when analyzing a major game, and it is...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India, Broadcast Rights and the Data GapsIn September 2026, in Budapest, I was in the hall when India completed a...
The Gap in Vietnamese Chess Archives — When a Game Leaves No TraceI typed the name of a national chess championship into the search field of an...
