Chess
Samarkand R8: The Scandinavian Defense Course Hidden Behind Germany's Win — A Lesson in Information IntegritySamarkand, Round 8. Germany defeated Uzbekistan — a headline that reads like ...
The Sword of Damocles: 60 Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, Carlsen's Unlisted Game, and the 19-Point Gap in My LedgerHook: The Queen's Tempo and an Empty Cell Inside Thirteen Bullets Last week, ...
The Sword of Damocles: The Promise, the Ledger, and the Gaps of the 60-Minute Scandinavian DefenseThe title unsettles you at first glance. Sword of Damocles — a sword that...
7/7 on Board Five: A Receipt, a Runway, and the Ledger Behind Savitha ShriThat Thursday round in Samarkand had a scrambled ledger. In the Open section...
A Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Advertisement: The Untreated Wound in Chess InformationI opened the file at half past three in the morning at my desk in Colombo. Th...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: Samarkand's Fifth Board and the Savings That Ran Out in Three YearsOn Thursday evening in Samarkand, two clocks stopped almost at once. In one...
The Screen Said Samarkand, the File Said PragueTwo names sat side by side on the screen of a bedroom in Mymensingh last nigh...
Savitha Shri: 7/7 in Samarkand, and a Ten-Year Family Budget That Ran Out in ThreeLast Thursday the boards in Samarkand had been running for nearly five hours,...
ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Empty-Room Question: Can Chess Be Learnt by Buying Annotation?On the tin roof of the Khulna club room, rain does not gather. Only the day's...
The Fifth Board at Samarkand: Seven Wins, Seven Games, and a Family's Three-Year LedgerHook The Thursday round took almost five hours. In that Samarkand hall, two...
