Chess
Open Ledger, Closed Door: What Actually Changes If an Eleven-Lakh Board Goes On-Chain
Thirty Minutes in Hand and Still Collapse: Not Nihal's Blunder but Team Scoring's Trap Around India's Title
Heartbeats in Paltan: The Chessboard Death We Never Counted
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD's Body: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and an Engine-Era Myth
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Verification Crisis in the Chess Theory Market
Samarkand R7: One Match Point, Zero Moves, and the Architecture of an Advertisement
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD's Body: 9...a5 Against the Bayonet and an Engine-Era MythAt three in the morning in my Mymensingh bedroom I opened a secondhand laptop...
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: The Verification Crisis in the Chess Theory MarketWhat the Headline Didn't Deliver The headline was clean: “Samarkand R7 (open)...
Samarkand R7: One Match Point, Zero Moves, and the Architecture of an AdvertisementHook The page in front of me carried four things in its headline. Samarkand,...
Open Ledger, Closed Door: What Actually Changes If an Eleven-Lakh Board Goes On-ChainThe door of the hall in Purana Paltan is made of tin, and it makes a sound wh...
In the Scotch File, a Name That Doesn't ExistLate last Sunday, at half past eleven, I opened a page at my Bangalore desk...
Thirty Minutes in Hand, Three Moves Lost: Nihal, Team Scoring and the Samarkand LedgerI picked up my phone at half past eleven at night in a rented flat in Mumbai....
Samarkand's Eight-Way Tie: ChessBase Magazine's New Issue and the Gaps in Opening PreparationAfter four rounds, the Samarkand table shows eight leaders. Eight names, eigh...
Crypto in the Empty Cupboard: Three Years of Blockchain Money on the Chess Board, and Purana Paltan's Unfinished LedgerIt was 4 a.m. on 21 August 2026 in my Khulna flat. The 2026 laptop was runnin...
The Empty Chair in Samarkand: Yom Kippur, the Points Table, and a Gap in the RulebookRound six in Samarkand started on time. The arbiter stood, one seat was...
Thirty Minutes in Hand and Still Collapse: Not Nihal's Blunder but Team Scoring's Trap Around India's TitleHook Nihal Sarin still had thirty minutes on his clock. His position was arou...
The Headline Sold Fischer; the Body Delivered the Scotch — An Audit of a ListingI opened a content listing at my Moscow desk last week. The headline was...
Heartbeats in Paltan: The Chessboard Death We Never CountedI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and those numbers confessed far more than any...
Samarkand's Eight-Way Tie: Why a Four-Round Table Carries the Least Information in the TournamentEight players share the lead in Samarkand after four rounds. The sentence...