Chess
The World Champion on Board Four: India's Samarkand Gold Chase Now Rests on One Shoulder
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Rescue and India's Open Ledger
Prague's Notes, Samarkand's Headline: One Magazine and a Chain That Never Reaches Home
Samarkand's Fourth Board: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Arithmetic of India's Single-Point Dependency
The World Champion on Board Four: India's Samarkand Gold Chase Now Rests on One ShoulderIn September 2026, while the Batumi Olympiad was running, I sat at a Mumbai...
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Rescue and India's Open LedgerThe clock in the Samarkand hall read 9:40 in the evening. On Board 4 sat D...
Prague's Notes, Samarkand's Headline: One Magazine and a Chain That Never Reaches HomeThe last light of December falls on a laptop screen in Rangpur. The headline...
Samarkand's Fourth Board: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and the Arithmetic of India's Single-Point DependencyHook: The number that catches the eye first on a squad sheet The board-order...
Samarkand on the Cover, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of a Vanished Match ReportFor three days a sentence sat in my notebook: “Samarkand R8 (women): China le...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: ChessBase Magazine #225 and a Metadata Trap2:40 a.m. in Dublin. Two files open on the desk. One headline claims Samarkan...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of a Broken Proof ChainLate at night in Moscow, the Stage-1 file opened with a headline promising a...
Seven Wins in the Notebook, Three Years of Costs: Savitha Shri's Real Ledger in SamarkandThursday's round. In the team hall at Samarkand the clock is nudging five...
A Samarkand Label, a Prague File: Chess Training Material's Data Integrity and the Arithmetic of 27 MiniaturesThe Label Against the File One name sat on the outside of the file. Another...