Chess
Board Five in Samarkand: What 7/7 Doesn't Prove, and What Three Years of Savings Does
The File Said Samarkand, the Folder Grew Prague: A Training Product's Ledger and Bangladesh's Five Grandmasters
Samarkand in the Headline, Sixty Minutes in the Body: When Chess's Information Ledger Fails to Match Itself
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague File: How the Chess Training Economy Slips Past Us
The Sword Hangs Over the Wrong Head: The Scandinavian Defense, a Sixty-Minute Promise, and the Empty Room
Savitha Shri: A Father's Gamble, Seven Boards, and a Ledger That Ran Out in Three Years
ChessThe File Said Samarkand, the Folder Grew Prague: A Training Product's Ledger and Bangladesh's Five GrandmastersLast week I was digging through a 2026 folder on my laptop. One filename...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Sixty Minutes in the Body: When Chess's Information Ledger Fails to Match ItselfTwo in the morning. Two lines sit side by side on the screen, and I forget to...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague File: How the Chess Training Economy Slips Past UsThree in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom: a secondhand laptop on the...
ChessThe Sword Hangs Over the Wrong Head: The Scandinavian Defense, a Sixty-Minute Promise, and the Empty RoomA Saturday in December 2026, seven in the evening. The Leonine Chess Club roo...
ChessSavitha Shri: A Father's Gamble, Seven Boards, and a Ledger That Ran Out in Three YearsThe clock at the Samarkand table had bent toward five hours. What sat on the...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: The Defence You Cannot Buy in Sixty MinutesHook On the screen, a still image: a black queen sliding from d5 to a5 inside...
ChessSamarkand's Night, Purana Paltan's Cupboard: When the Headline and the Body Play Two Different GamesThe steel cupboard is still shut. That was 2026 — the inner hall of the Puran...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 and Her Father's Three-Year Savings: The Arithmetic Inside an Olympiad Hero StoryThe Thursday round in Samarkand ran close to five hours. Two different things...
ChessThe Metadata Gap: A Samarkand Headline, a ChessBase #225 BodyIt was nearly two in the morning. I opened the file and the headline caught m...
ChessThe Folder Said Samarkand; Inside Was a Sales PageIn August 2026, in a hostel room in Delhi, I opened a folder labelled...
ChessBoard Five in Samarkand: What 7/7 Doesn't Prove, and What Three Years of Savings DoesThe clock in the Samarkand hall had crossed five hours. Late in Thursday's...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Ledger of a Nation's Chess DreamsOn my desk in Khulna, next to the 2026 laptop, I still keep a photograph of t...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Sixty Minutes in the Body: When Chess's Information Ledger Fails to Match ItselfTwo in the morning. Two lines sit side by side on the screen, and I forget to...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague File: How the Chess Training Economy Slips Past UsThree in the morning in a Mymensingh bedroom: a secondhand laptop on the...
ChessThe Sword Hangs Over the Wrong Head: The Scandinavian Defense, a Sixty-Minute Promise, and the Empty RoomA Saturday in December 2026, seven in the evening. The Leonine Chess Club roo...
ChessSavitha Shri: A Father's Gamble, Seven Boards, and a Ledger That Ran Out in Three YearsThe clock at the Samarkand table had bent toward five hours. What sat on the...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: The Defence You Cannot Buy in Sixty MinutesHook On the screen, a still image: a black queen sliding from d5 to a5 inside...
ChessSamarkand's Night, Purana Paltan's Cupboard: When the Headline and the Body Play Two Different GamesThe steel cupboard is still shut. That was 2026 — the inner hall of the Puran...
ChessSavitha Shri's 7/7 and Her Father's Three-Year Savings: The Arithmetic Inside an Olympiad Hero StoryThe Thursday round in Samarkand ran close to five hours. Two different things...
ChessThe Metadata Gap: A Samarkand Headline, a ChessBase #225 BodyIt was nearly two in the morning. I opened the file and the headline caught m...
ChessThe Folder Said Samarkand; Inside Was a Sales PageIn August 2026, in a hostel room in Delhi, I opened a folder labelled...
ChessBoard Five in Samarkand: What 7/7 Doesn't Prove, and What Three Years of Savings DoesThe clock in the Samarkand hall had crossed five hours. Late in Thursday's...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Scandinavian Course, Carlsen's Name, and the Ledger of a Nation's Chess DreamsOn my desk in Khulna, next to the 2026 laptop, I still keep a photograph of t...