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ChessSamarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead and Zero Board Reports2026-09-24Seven in the evening, Mumbai. I had my spreadsheet open for Round 7 of the...
ChessIndia's One-Board Trap at the Chess Olympiad: Nihal Sarin Lost, Yet Was Named Player of the Day2026-09-24Thirty Minutes Is Not a Shortage of Time The clock still had thirty minutes o...
ChessThe Achilles Heel Ledger: Where India's Women Actually Lost to Poland at the Chess Olympiad2026-09-24Round 5. No scoreline. No boards. No moves. The headline rests on a single...
ChessOne Match Point in Samarkand: Whose Ledger, Whose Headline2026-09-25At two in the morning the kettle in my Saint Petersburg kitchen was still...
ChessThe Price of One Match Point: Samarkand Round 7, an Advertisement Inside a Headline, and the Empty Square in Chess Journalism2026-09-24One match point. That is the whole gap between China and Kazakhstan in the...
ChessSamarkand R7 or a King's Indian DVD: Two Truths in One File, and the Unproven Claim of 9...a52026-09-24Late Sunday night I opened a file on my desk. The headline read: “Samarkand R...
One Match Point in Samarkand: Whose Ledger, Whose HeadlineAt two in the morning the kettle in my Saint Petersburg kitchen was still...
The Price of One Match Point: Samarkand Round 7, an Advertisement Inside a Headline, and the Empty Square in Chess JournalismOne match point. That is the whole gap between China and Kazakhstan in the...
Samarkand R7 or a King's Indian DVD: Two Truths in One File, and the Unproven Claim of 9...a5Late Sunday night I opened a file on my desk. The headline read: “Samarkand R...
Samarkand Round 7: A One-Match-Point Lead and Zero Board ReportsSeven in the evening, Mumbai. I had my spreadsheet open for Round 7 of the...
A Samarkand Headline with a 9...a5 Body: Auditing One Chess StoryLast Friday, 7 August 2026, at half past eleven at night, a headline surfaced...
Eight Tied in Samarkand and 27 Miniatures: The Invisible Bill of ChessAfter four rounds in Samarkand, eight names sit on the top half of the table...
Where the Bottom Boards Win and the Top Boards Draw: India Women's 5/5 and an Unclosed LedgerI turned the round-six scoresheet upside down: board number first, result...
Samarkand's 27 Miniatures: The Injury That Moved From Board to MonitorWhen the table in Samarkand is read after Round 4, the first number that...
India's One-Board Trap at the Chess Olympiad: Nihal Sarin Lost, Yet Was Named Player of the DayThirty Minutes Is Not a Shortage of Time The clock still had thirty minutes o...
The Achilles Heel Ledger: Where India's Women Actually Lost to Poland at the Chess OlympiadRound 5. No scoreline. No boards. No moves. The headline rests on a single...
Savitha Shri's 5/5: India's Lower-Board Engine in Samarkand, and the Arithmetic Behind ItI read the round-five score sheet twice. The first time I assumed there was a...
Two Empty Chairs in Samarkand: Round Six, the Rest Day, and the Rule Nobody Wrote DownThe clock on the second-floor hall of the Savitsky Hotel in Samarkand read fi...
An Empty Board, Full Points: Israel's Round 6 Forfeit in Samarkand and the Gap in FIDE's RulebookThe clocks in the Savitsky Hotel in Samarkand started on time for Round 6....
The World Champion on the Last Board: India's 5/5, an Unconverted Move, and the Steel Cupboard at Purana PaltanIn the steel cupboard of the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall at Purana Palta...
Board Four Built the Lead: India's Women's Team and the Five-Round Audit AheadIt was two in the morning in Dublin. The tournament clock runs five hours ahe...
Beaten by Uzbekistan, Yet Nihal Sarin Was India's Player of the Day: The Unfinished Ledger of a Chess TeamThere were still thirty minutes on the clock and roughly two points of...