Chess
A Samarkand Headline, a Mar del Plata Blueprint: How Real Is the 9...a5 ‘Antidote’ to the Bayonet Attack?
9...a5 Under a Samarkand R7 Headline: The Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' That Arrived Without a Single Engine Evaluation
Eight Columns on an Empty Board: Reading Bangladesh's Chess Ledger From a Blank Data Sheet
The King's Indian Pitch: 9...a5, the Memorization Market and the Engine's Changed Eye
Samarkand in the Headline, a King's Indian in the Body: The 9...a5 Lure and a Data Vacuum
A Samarkand Headline, a Mar del Plata Blueprint: How Real Is the 9...a5 ‘Antidote’ to the Bayonet Attack?It was half past three in the morning in a bedroom in Mymensingh, the laptop...
The King's Indian Pitch: 9...a5, the Memorization Market and the Engine's Changed EyeA message arrived from Dhaka last week. A club player, around thirty, rated...
9...a5 Under a Samarkand R7 Headline: The Bayonet Attack 'Antidote' That Arrived Without a Single Engine EvaluationEleven-forty at night in Mumbai. I was hunting for the round-seven report fro...
Samarkand in the Headline, a King's Indian in the Body: The 9...a5 Lure and a Data VacuumI opened a link at two in the morning. The headline said Samarkand, round...
Champion on Board Four: India's Unconventional Deployment and the First Five Rounds of the Chess OlympiadA detailed analysis of India's unconventional board-four deployment of World...
Samarkand's Lead, and the DVD Hidden Beneath the BoardHalf past midnight in Penang. The headline slid onto my screen and settled...
Eight Columns on an Empty Board: Reading Bangladesh's Chess Ledger From a Blank Data SheetEvening of 5 July 2026. At a Premier Division Chess League table in Dhaka, it...
The World Champion on Board Four — Where India's 5/5 Hides Its GapRound five's live relay was running past two in the morning Dublin time. Two...
A World Champion on Board Four: India's Quiet Olympiad Engineering and Praggnanandhaa's Unfinished ConversionsA World Champion on Board Four: India's Quiet Olympiad Engineering and...