Chess
Prague 2026's Archive: 27 Miniatures and the Record the Scoreboard Never Keeps
Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and One Empty Column Still Waiting to Be Filled
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Score Sheet That Was Never Filed
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, One Maintenance Release, and the Question the Review Never Asks
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Score Sheet That Was Never FiledThe document comes first. The drama can wait. A release dated 13 May 2026...
Prague 2026's Archive: 27 Miniatures and the Record the Scoreboard Never KeepsIn April 2026, ahead of the Tbilisi World Cup, I had a 44-page briefing book...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, One Maintenance Release, and the Question the Review Never AsksOn Thursday's Zoom call a Chicago club player — Anil Rathod, 1780 — held a...
77 Teams, Five Continents and One Missing Ledger: FIDE's Prison Chess Championship, 13–23 May 202677 Teams, Five Continents and One Missing Ledger The file opened three times;...
A Game Played Without Names: 77 Teams, Three Sections, and Not One ScoresheetThe door opens on schedule and the board comes out. Almost every major Indian...
Najdorf Update: A 60-Minute Video, Five Lines, and a Missing LedgerThe first entry in the Centipawn Ledger was negative. The review contained no...
The Prison Chess Championship: A 77-Team Number That Measures Reach, Not OutcomeBetween 13 and 23 May 2026, 77 teams from five continents played a chess...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Update That Teaches Plans but Hides Its DateIn a Chennai chess club, on Tuesday evenings, the coach would open an old...
Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and One Empty Column Still Waiting to Be FilledI built the column first, then trusted the number. Opening the ledger for 13–...
Eleven Years Old and an 'International Master': The Scoresheet Is Fine, the Headline Still Needs VerificationOctober 23. Board one. Seven rounds, five wins, one draw, one loss — 5.5/7....
An 11-Year-Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Record Whose Dates Still Need CheckingOn the evening of 23 October 2026, in the last round on board one, an...
The Ledger's Board: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Arithmetic No Medal Table ShowsIn May 2026 I sat through nine rounds of the Gujarat State Senior Championshi...
Prague 2026's Archive: 27 Miniatures and the Record the Scoreboard Never KeepsIn April 2026, ahead of the Tbilisi World Cup, I had a 44-page briefing book...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, One Maintenance Release, and the Question the Review Never AsksOn Thursday's Zoom call a Chicago club player — Anil Rathod, 1780 — held a...
77 Teams, Five Continents and One Missing Ledger: FIDE's Prison Chess Championship, 13–23 May 202677 Teams, Five Continents and One Missing Ledger The file opened three times;...
A Game Played Without Names: 77 Teams, Three Sections, and Not One ScoresheetThe door opens on schedule and the board comes out. Almost every major Indian...
Najdorf Update: A 60-Minute Video, Five Lines, and a Missing LedgerThe first entry in the Centipawn Ledger was negative. The review contained no...
The Prison Chess Championship: A 77-Team Number That Measures Reach, Not OutcomeBetween 13 and 23 May 2026, 77 teams from five continents played a chess...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: The Update That Teaches Plans but Hides Its DateIn a Chennai chess club, on Tuesday evenings, the coach would open an old...
Prison Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and One Empty Column Still Waiting to Be FilledI built the column first, then trusted the number. Opening the ledger for 13–...
Eleven Years Old and an 'International Master': The Scoresheet Is Fine, the Headline Still Needs VerificationOctober 23. Board one. Seven rounds, five wins, one draw, one loss — 5.5/7....
An 11-Year-Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Record Whose Dates Still Need CheckingOn the evening of 23 October 2026, in the last round on board one, an...
The Ledger's Board: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Arithmetic No Medal Table ShowsIn May 2026 I sat through nine rounds of the Gujarat State Senior Championshi...