Chess
Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap: Is the Sharp 5.e5! Modern Italian a Real Club Weapon?2026-09-27Two names in the headline, but no tournament, rating or date. Game of the Wee...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: The Ledger Nobody Is Reconciling Behind the Hero Story2026-09-26The Thursday round took almost five hours. In the same team match, in the sam...
Echo in the Steel Cupboard: ChessBase Magazine #225, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and Bangladesh's Unplayed Training Board2026-09-26March 2026. On the second floor of the federation hall in Purana Paltan stood...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Inside: A Replay of One Metadata Error2026-09-25Last night in my Dublin room I opened two files side by side. One said that...
Seven Wins, Zero Draws, and a Savings Account That Ran Out in Three Years: The Ledger Behind Savitha Shri2026-09-25Thursday's round, Samarkand. On India's top board in the open section, Gukesh...
Erigaisi vs Laohawirapap: Is the Sharp 5.e5! Modern Italian a Real Club Weapon?Two names in the headline, but no tournament, rating or date. Game of the Wee...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: The Ledger Nobody Is Reconciling Behind the Hero StoryThe Thursday round took almost five hours. In the same team match, in the sam...
Echo in the Steel Cupboard: ChessBase Magazine #225, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and Bangladesh's Unplayed Training BoardMarch 2026. On the second floor of the federation hall in Purana Paltan stood...
The Wrong Title, The Right Ledger: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Unglamorous Economics of Chess TrainingThat evening the snow was falling outside a Saint Petersburg window, and on m...
A Father's Job, a Three-Year Runway and Seven Wins: What Savitha Shri's Case File Says to BangladeshBefore the Samarkand round reached the table, my notebook already carried one...
The Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Real Ledger of Chess InstructionLast week I sat in a club room in Penang and watched an old scene repeated. A...
The Fifth Board in Samarkand: Savitha Shri's Seven Wins and One Family's LedgerIn a Samarkand hall the daylight drains slowly from the windows; inside, only...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Inside: A Replay of One Metadata ErrorLast night in my Dublin room I opened two files side by side. One said that...
Seven Wins, Zero Draws, and a Savings Account That Ran Out in Three Years: The Ledger Behind Savitha ShriThursday's round, Samarkand. On India's top board in the open section, Gukesh...
Not Seven Wins From a Reserve Board, But the Number Three — Savitha Shri, Samarkand, and One Family's LedgerSAMARKAND — The Thursday round had been running for nearly five hours. On the...