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The Headline Says FIDE President, the File Says Najdorf: Two Faces of One Document
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and Ten Opening Articles: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Sells, and What It Leaves Out
Samarkand Round 9: The Structural Weakness Behind Gukesh's Houdini Escape
The Label Said Samarkand; the Drawer Gave Prague
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and a Headline That Doesn't Know Its Own Content
A FIDE Ratings Headline, an Anti-Scotch Course Inside — the Arithmetic from 2026 to 2026 Doesn't Add Up
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles — and a Headline That Doesn't Know Its Own ContentI counted the fourteen information points — one by one, ticking them off in m...
A FIDE Ratings Headline, an Anti-Scotch Course Inside — the Arithmetic from 2026 to 2026 Doesn't Add UpI opened the page titled “FIDE Ratings — October 2026” expecting a table, and...
Six Videos, One Ledger: The Anti-System Repertoire, the Chess Education Market, and a Headline That Doesn't Add UpOn a Saturday night in Mumbai I sat at board three of a club rapid. Opposite ...
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The Golden Board in Budapest: India's First Olympiad Gold and Bangladesh's Unplayed MovesAt two in the morning in Dublin I opened the laptop and pulled up the...
Samarkand in the Headline, 9...a5 in the Body: How a DVD Listing Exposed a Crack in Chess PublishingHook — What Happens on the Board vs. What Gets Written on the Page Last month...
Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap and 5.e5: A Sharp Italian Sales Pitch With Missing ReceiptsSeven in the evening at a Delhi club room. Three tables under fluorescent...
The King's Walk and the Club's Ledger: An Olympiad Headline and the 5.e5 AccountingThe king does not walk on the scoresheet. The king's walk lives in the...
The Headline Says FIDE President, the File Says Najdorf: Two Faces of One DocumentThe file landed on my desk on a Sunday morning. One line at the top: Timur...