Chess
Capablanca in the Headline, King's Indian in the Body: The Ledger That Never ReconciledIn August 2026 the eighth Chess Olympiad opened in Buenos Aires, and after...
An 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Comes With a 2,465 Performance Rating — and a Missing Field AverageOctober 23. Board one. Seven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. Score 5.5/...
Prague 2026: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, One Empty Board and Chess's New RecordIn Prague's Municipal House that evening, the first thing to empty was a boar...
Auditing the Najdorf Update Course: 60 Minutes, Five Branches, and the Data Behind the Word 'Popular'60 minutes of video, five line clusters, and an average of twelve minutes per...
Wesley So Wins a Fourth US Chess Championship in Tiebreaks — and the Report That Never Filed the TiebreakWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to take a fourth US Chess...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Deliberately Incomplete Record of the Prison Chess ChampionshipThe evening of 13 May 2026. FIDE's Chess for Freedom page was open on my lapt...
Seventy-Seven Teams Behind a Locked Door: The Chess Ledger Nobody Reads Off a ScoreboardBatumi, August 2026. At the 43rd Chess Olympiad an older print correspondent...
An 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Comes With a 2,465 Performance Rating — and a Missing Field AverageOctober 23. Board one. Seven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. Score 5.5/...
Prague 2026: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, One Empty Board and Chess's New RecordIn Prague's Municipal House that evening, the first thing to empty was a boar...
Auditing the Najdorf Update Course: 60 Minutes, Five Branches, and the Data Behind the Word 'Popular'60 minutes of video, five line clusters, and an average of twelve minutes per...
Wesley So Wins a Fourth US Chess Championship in Tiebreaks — and the Report That Never Filed the TiebreakWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to take a fourth US Chess...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Deliberately Incomplete Record of the Prison Chess ChampionshipThe evening of 13 May 2026. FIDE's Chess for Freedom page was open on my lapt...
Seventy-Seven Teams Behind a Locked Door: The Chess Ledger Nobody Reads Off a ScoreboardBatumi, August 2026. At the 43rd Chess Olympiad an older print correspondent...