Chess
The Price of e5: From an Erigaisi Move to a Club-Level Promise
5.e5! — The Modern Italian's Edge, the Trap Ledger, and an Unequal Pairing's Evidence Gap
The Price of 5.e5: A King Walks in the Headline, Nobody Walks in the Footnotes
One Patient on the Chart, Another in the Tissue: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Autopsy of an Information Injury
The Price of e5: From an Erigaisi Move to a Club-Level PromiseThe first time I saw 5.e5 on a demonstration board in a club hall, it was not...
5.e5! — The Modern Italian's Edge, the Trap Ledger, and an Unequal Pairing's Evidence GapThe pieces are set, and White faces one question: does he take his centre bac...
54 Moves in Samarkand: India's Single-Point Dependence Behind Gukesh's EscapeThe steel cupboard still holds the echo of a crowd that never came. Inside it...
Five Najdorfs in Sixty Minutes: Load in the Chess-Instruction Market, an Unverified FIDE Headline, and One Diagnostic ErrorIt was half past eleven at night in Boston when I opened the file, and the...
The Price of 5.e5: A King Walks in the Headline, Nobody Walks in the FootnotesA king went for a walk. That is exactly what the headline promised: a hidden...
Game of the Week #740: Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap and the Unverified Promise of 5.e5!The position reads like this: White pawn on e4, Black pawn on e5, White bisho...
One Patient on the Chart, Another in the Tissue: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Autopsy of an Information InjurySamarkand, round eight. A women's event. The headline said China led with...
The Houdini of Samarkand: Why India's Title Defence Hangs on One ManFive and a half hours. In the Samarkand hall the air was almost still, the...
Samarkand Headline, ChessBase Catalogue: The Match Report That Never CameSamarkand, round eight, women's team championship — China on 15 out of 16. A...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague File: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of a Training EconomyThe file was labelled Samarkand. Round eight, women's section, China on 15/16...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: ChessBase #225 and One Empty Square in the News ChainAt three in the morning in a Dublin flat last Thursday, I opened a file. The...
The 'Sword of Damocles' of the Scandinavian Defense: What a 60-Minute Course Does and Doesn't DeliverWhen I was tagging 640 games in a corner of my Mymensingh bedroom, I didn't...