Chess
Capablanca in the Headline, 9...a5 in the File: Auditing a Mismatched RecordBefore I opened the file, I read the headline: "A farewell triumph: Capablanc...
77 Teams at the Prison Board: FIDE's Chess for Freedom and the Clock Nobody Tabulated Across Five Continents13 May 2026. A board opens on an online platform, and the player sitting in...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Repertoire Update Is a Short-Term Loan With No Expiry DateThe first thing I looked for in the review that landed on my desk was a date....
77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Empty PGN File: The First Audit of Prison ChessA press release landed on the Brisbane desk on the morning of 13 May 2026....
An IM Norm at 11 Years 7 Months: What a 2,465 Performance Rating Over Seven Games Proves, and What It Doesn'tBlack pieces on board one, the last round, a gambit line. My notebook carries...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — and Not One Published GameThe first round began on 13 May 2026, and the organisers had one clean number...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf Update: What Sells Is Maintenance, Not TheorySixty minutes for five lines. The arithmetic is unforgiving — ten to twelve...
Auditing the Najdorf Update: Five Lines, Sixty Minutes, and Everything the File Doesn't RecordI sat down looking for a flag and came up holding a metadata sheet. On a Sund...
FritzTrainer Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Missing Date in the LedgerOn the page, five move-sequences stood without names, only notation — first...
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams Showed Up; the Scoresheet Did NotI went looking for the score and found a tournament arguing with its own...
Najdorf on the Screen, Elephant on the Board: Inside a 60-Minute Chess Opening CourseAt one in the morning the same page opened twice on my laptop — once I read t...
77 Teams at the Prison Board: FIDE's Chess for Freedom and the Clock Nobody Tabulated Across Five Continents13 May 2026. A board opens on an online platform, and the player sitting in...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Repertoire Update Is a Short-Term Loan With No Expiry DateThe first thing I looked for in the review that landed on my desk was a date....
77 Teams, Five Continents, and an Empty PGN File: The First Audit of Prison ChessA press release landed on the Brisbane desk on the morning of 13 May 2026....
An IM Norm at 11 Years 7 Months: What a 2,465 Performance Rating Over Seven Games Proves, and What It Doesn'tBlack pieces on board one, the last round, a gambit line. My notebook carries...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — and Not One Published GameThe first round began on 13 May 2026, and the organisers had one clean number...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf Update: What Sells Is Maintenance, Not TheorySixty minutes for five lines. The arithmetic is unforgiving — ten to twelve...
Auditing the Najdorf Update: Five Lines, Sixty Minutes, and Everything the File Doesn't RecordI sat down looking for a flag and came up holding a metadata sheet. On a Sund...
FritzTrainer Najdorf Update: 60 Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and a Missing Date in the LedgerOn the page, five move-sequences stood without names, only notation — first...
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams Showed Up; the Scoresheet Did NotI went looking for the score and found a tournament arguing with its own...
Najdorf on the Screen, Elephant on the Board: Inside a 60-Minute Chess Opening CourseAt one in the morning the same page opened twice on my laptop — once I read t...
