Chess
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and a Missing Date: The Ledger on a Najdorf Update
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Denominator the Press Note Left Out
An IM at Eleven: The Scoreboard Says 5.5/7, the Transitions Say 2,465
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: The 13–23 May 2026 Record, and What It Does Not Log
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Title Nobody Signed Off On: Auditing the First Continental Prison Chess Championship
77 Teams Behind Bars, Five Continents: Chess's Biggest Institutional Audit Has Begun, and the Receipts Are Still Incomplete
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and a Missing Date: The Ledger on a Najdorf UpdateLast week, in a Brooklyn room, I opened a sixty-minute video file and split i...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Denominator the Press Note Left Out"27 miniatures." That is the first number ChessBase Magazine #225's press...
An IM at Eleven: The Scoreboard Says 5.5/7, the Transitions Say 2,465The final round of 23 October. Board one. Black pieces. The scoresheet record...
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: The 13–23 May 2026 Record, and What It Does Not LogJuly 2026, Delhi International Open. Ten rounds, 236 players, nine days. I...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Title Nobody Signed Off On: Auditing the First Continental Prison Chess ChampionshipThe first blow landed not on a board but in the event's own name. Material...
77 Teams Behind Bars, Five Continents: Chess's Biggest Institutional Audit Has Begun, and the Receipts Are Still IncompleteOn the morning of 13 May 2026, when the first round started, the photographs...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: When 'Entertainment' Stopped Being Just EntertainmentFebruary 2026, Prague. After the fourth round of the Chess Festival Masters...
A 2,465 Performance and 5.5/7 on Board One: An 11-Year-Old's IM Score, and the Arithmetic Still UnsettledIn the final round she had the black pieces. Her opponent pushed in a gambit...
The Najdorf’s 60-Minute Invoice: Daniel King’s Update and the Real Price of Chess TrainingAt eleven at night in Saint Petersburg I opened the laptop. There was no crow...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Denominator the Press Note Left Out"27 miniatures." That is the first number ChessBase Magazine #225's press...
An IM at Eleven: The Scoreboard Says 5.5/7, the Transitions Say 2,465The final round of 23 October. Board one. Black pieces. The scoresheet record...
The First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: The 13–23 May 2026 Record, and What It Does Not LogJuly 2026, Delhi International Open. Ten rounds, 236 players, nine days. I...
77 Teams, Five Continents, and a Title Nobody Signed Off On: Auditing the First Continental Prison Chess ChampionshipThe first blow landed not on a board but in the event's own name. Material...
77 Teams Behind Bars, Five Continents: Chess's Biggest Institutional Audit Has Begun, and the Receipts Are Still IncompleteOn the morning of 13 May 2026, when the first round started, the photographs...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: When 'Entertainment' Stopped Being Just EntertainmentFebruary 2026, Prague. After the fourth round of the Chess Festival Masters...
A 2,465 Performance and 5.5/7 on Board One: An 11-Year-Old's IM Score, and the Arithmetic Still UnsettledIn the final round she had the black pieces. Her opponent pushed in a gambit...
The Najdorf’s 60-Minute Invoice: Daniel King’s Update and the Real Price of Chess TrainingAt eleven at night in Saint Petersburg I opened the laptop. There was no crow...