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ChessSamarkand Round 9: Gukesh's Five-Hour Escape and the Gap in India's Gold Arithmetic2026-09-27The board had been lost for more than five hours. In the ninth round at...
ChessThe Fifth Hour in Samarkand: Gukesh's Houdini and the Crack Beneath India's Throne2026-09-27The lights on the second floor of the Samarkand playing hall had not yet gone...
ChessSarana's King Walk and the Empty Page: What the 5.e5 Line Is Actually Worth2026-09-27The page lying on my desk announces that Alexei Sarana took his king for a wa...
ChessSamarkand Round 9: A 54-Move Escape, and a Gold Account Resting on One Shoulder2026-09-26Five hours at the board, a world champion parked in a lost position, and then...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, One Download Key, and a Samarkand Score That Never Was2026-09-26At four in the morning in my Khulna flat I opened the laptop. The file was...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's Five-Hour Escape and the Gap in India's Gold ArithmeticThe board had been lost for more than five hours. In the ninth round at...
The Fifth Hour in Samarkand: Gukesh's Houdini and the Crack Beneath India's ThroneThe lights on the second floor of the Samarkand playing hall had not yet gone...
Sarana's King Walk and the Empty Page: What the 5.e5 Line Is Actually WorthThe page lying on my desk announces that Alexei Sarana took his king for a wa...
Samarkand Round 9: A 54-Move Escape, and a Gold Account Resting on One ShoulderFive hours at the board, a world champion parked in a lost position, and then...
Twenty-Seven Miniatures from Prague, One Download Key, and a Samarkand Score That Never WasAt four in the morning in my Khulna flat I opened the laptop. The file was...
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Page: 27 Miniatures and the Ledger of a Source Mix-UpThe sugar was settling at the bottom of the glass in that Purana Paltan tea...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Screen Light, 27 Miniatures and the Uncounted Body Cost of Chess TrainingTwo sheets of paper landed on my desk the same day. The top one was a product...
A Headline in One Room, a Body in Another: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026 and the New Ledger of Chess Trainingplaceholder
From a Father's Broken Balance Sheet to Samarkand's Fifth Board: The Ledger Inside Savitha Shri's Seven WinsThe lights in the Samarkand playing hall are going pale. The fifth hour has...