Chess
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, Eleven Minutes Each, and an Undated Receipt
Carlsen's “humans are not that good” remark: the tired body under the rating and Budapest's 12-day bet
Rachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defence in the Body: Auditing the Chess Media Pipeline
Wesley So Wins Fourth US Chess Championship in Tiebreak Over Caruana — But Where Is the Scoresheet Behind the Headline?
ChessSixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Five Lines, Eleven Minutes Each, and an Undated ReceiptHook: Eleven Minutes a Line At two in the morning in a Chicago apartment I...
ChessWesley So beats Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks, wins fourth US Chess Championship titleThe moment came at the St. Louis Chess Club hall when everything on the...
ChessSeven Games, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Timeline That Does Not Add Up2,465. Seven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. 5.5/7 on board one, in a...
ChessNot Najdorf, but the Elephant Gambit: The 60-Minute Course Claim and the Truth in Chess's 'Underrated' LedgerThe product page that landed on my desk last week had a title and a body that...
ChessThe 60-Minute Elephant Gambit: A Different Dream Sold Under the Najdorf NameLast Thursday, on the first floor of a club in Green Park, a blitz night was...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: A Tiebreak Over Caruana, and What a Level Classical Score Actually MeasuresThe scoresheet of the US Chess Championship had to carry the same line twice....
ChessCarlsen's “humans are not that good” remark: the tired body under the rating and Budapest's 12-day betIn an interview published by Marca on 21 October, Magnus Carlsen said one...
ChessRachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defence in the Body: Auditing the Chess Media PipelineTwo stories sat in the same file, and neither knew the other existed. The...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: An Opening Product's Ledger, and the Empty Carlsen Column Inside It1...d5. After this move Black has less space, and that part of the bargain is...
ChessA Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a FRITZ 20 Advert in the Body: Anatomy of a Chess Story That Was Never NewsHook: By the Third Paragraph the Meeting Had Vanished A link surfaced in my...
ChessWesley So Wins Fourth US Chess Championship in Tiebreak Over Caruana — But Where Is the Scoresheet Behind the Headline?Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in the tiebreak to win his fourth US Chess...
ChessThe 60-Minute Promise of the Scandinavian Defense: Where Carlsen's Name Is Decoration, Not EvidenceThe headline was clean: "Rachel Li stunningly wins US Women's Championship." ...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Arithmetic of 'Perfect', and the 2026 Date Hidden on That PageThe page carried two dates, and they were not speaking to each other. The...
ChessNATO in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: An Audit of Twelve Data PointsI took twelve information points and matched them one by one against the...
ChessCarlsen's Admission: The Ceiling of Human Accuracy, the Fatigue at 35, and Budapest's $20 Million Question$20 million. The question was blunt enough that it barely needed asking — wou...
ChessThe Budva Ledger: 108 Teams, One Above 2700, and a Headline About Another CityTwo cities, one news item. The brief dated 19 October 2026 carries a headline...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Under the Novy Bor–SuperChess 'Perfect' Headline, a 60-Minute Scotch Advertorial Is Quietly on SaleThe first clue was not the formation — it was the fourteen tabs I refused to...
ChessWesley So beats Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks, wins fourth US Chess Championship titleThe moment came at the St. Louis Chess Club hall when everything on the...
ChessSeven Games, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and a Timeline That Does Not Add Up2,465. Seven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. 5.5/7 on board one, in a...
ChessNot Najdorf, but the Elephant Gambit: The 60-Minute Course Claim and the Truth in Chess's 'Underrated' LedgerThe product page that landed on my desk last week had a title and a body that...
ChessThe 60-Minute Elephant Gambit: A Different Dream Sold Under the Najdorf NameLast Thursday, on the first floor of a club in Green Park, a blitz night was...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: A Tiebreak Over Caruana, and What a Level Classical Score Actually MeasuresThe scoresheet of the US Chess Championship had to carry the same line twice....
ChessCarlsen's “humans are not that good” remark: the tired body under the rating and Budapest's 12-day betIn an interview published by Marca on 21 October, Magnus Carlsen said one...
ChessRachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defence in the Body: Auditing the Chess Media PipelineTwo stories sat in the same file, and neither knew the other existed. The...
ChessSixty Minutes of Scandinavian: An Opening Product's Ledger, and the Empty Carlsen Column Inside It1...d5. After this move Black has less space, and that part of the bargain is...
ChessA Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a FRITZ 20 Advert in the Body: Anatomy of a Chess Story That Was Never NewsHook: By the Third Paragraph the Meeting Had Vanished A link surfaced in my...
ChessWesley So Wins Fourth US Chess Championship in Tiebreak Over Caruana — But Where Is the Scoresheet Behind the Headline?Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in the tiebreak to win his fourth US Chess...
ChessThe 60-Minute Promise of the Scandinavian Defense: Where Carlsen's Name Is Decoration, Not EvidenceThe headline was clean: "Rachel Li stunningly wins US Women's Championship." ...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Arithmetic of 'Perfect', and the 2026 Date Hidden on That PageThe page carried two dates, and they were not speaking to each other. The...
ChessNATO in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: An Audit of Twelve Data PointsI took twelve information points and matched them one by one against the...
ChessCarlsen's Admission: The Ceiling of Human Accuracy, the Fatigue at 35, and Budapest's $20 Million Question$20 million. The question was blunt enough that it barely needed asking — wou...
ChessThe Budva Ledger: 108 Teams, One Above 2700, and a Headline About Another CityTwo cities, one news item. The brief dated 19 October 2026 carries a headline...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: Under the Novy Bor–SuperChess 'Perfect' Headline, a 60-Minute Scotch Advertorial Is Quietly on SaleThe first clue was not the formation — it was the fourteen tabs I refused to...