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Samarkand on the Label, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Who Owns the Record
Gukesh's Houdini, Two Silent Boards and the Arithmetic of Gold in Samarkand
The File That Lied About Its Own Name: Samarkand's Score, ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chain of Custody of Data
54 Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape, and the Crack Under India's Gold Rush
ChessThe King Who Walked at the Olympiad, and the Move Nobody PrintedIn the Dhaka press room I learned to count the questions nobody asked. In...
Chess5.e5: A Trap Line, a Walking King, and an Unfinished Claim From the Olympiad1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.e5! The fifth move looks like...
ChessA Single Conversion in 54 Moves: Gukesh's Escape in Samarkand and the Gap Written Into India's LedgerFourth board, Samarkand. The clock has crossed five hours, and the position D...
ChessThe Najdorf Update vs. the FIDE Presidency Claim: An Accounting of a Headline-Body MismatchMy notebook says one thing; the tape says another. The article that landed on...
ChessGame No. 740: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap — 5.e5 in the Italian, One Product, One Trap, One Unequal GamePLACEHOLDER
Chess5.e5!: The Modern Italian's Knife, and a Missing ReceiptGame of the Week #740, a 60-minute series, with two surnames in the title —...
ChessSamarkand on the Label, Prague Inside: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Who Owns the RecordThe file was labelled Samarkand. Round eight, women's section, China leading...
ChessSamarkand's Single Point of Failure: Gukesh's 54 Moves and the Arithmetic of a Fragile DefenceAt three in the morning, in a bedroom in Mymensingh, a single move froze on a...
ChessGukesh's Houdini, Two Silent Boards and the Arithmetic of Gold in SamarkandHalf past one at night in Delhi, only one board is still lit on my laptop...
ChessThe File That Lied About Its Own Name: Samarkand's Score, ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Chain of Custody of DataHook: The File Lied About Its Own Name The header said one thing. The body sa...
Chess54 Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape, and the Crack Under India's Gold RushIt was 3:30 in the morning in Dublin. Samarkand sits five hours ahead of me,...
ChessA Record Delivered to the Wrong Address: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026, and the Real Price of WitnessingHook Last week a file landed on my desk. The filename said Samarkand, Round...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Scandinavian Body: Dissecting an Information Injury in Chess MediaIt was 2:40 a.m. in Boston. I was scrolling a wire feed when one headline...
ChessSeven Wins, a Three-Year Runway: The Real Ledger of Samarkand's Fifth BoardThe clock at the Samarkand hall has crossed five hours. Two different things...