Chess
A 60-Minute File and an Unverified Headline: Najdorf, FIDE and the Ledger
Samarkand Olympiad: The Silent Ledger of Fatigue Inside India's Silver and Bronze
45.Rd1 — The Move That Could Have Been a Draw: India's Women and the Arithmetic of Samarkand
The Headline With No Birth Certificate: A FIDE Claim, a Najdorf Update, and the Two Halves of One Document
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf and a FIDE Headline: Two Different Games in One File
That Night in Samarkand and the Shadow of an Advertisement: A Year's Worth of Women's Team Chess News Gathering
ChessSamarkand Olympiad: The Silent Ledger of Fatigue Inside India's Silver and BronzePutting the reigning world champion on board four was the loudest and...
Chess45.Rd1 — The Move That Could Have Been a Draw: India's Women and the Arithmetic of SamarkandIn Samarkand, at the end of round ten, the camera stopped showing the board a...
ChessA 60-Minute File and an Unverified Headline: Najdorf, FIDE and the LedgerHalf past midnight in a Bangalore flat, laptop open. The download folder hold...
ChessThe Headline With No Birth Certificate: A FIDE Claim, a Najdorf Update, and the Two Halves of One DocumentLast month I had to add a new column to my ledger. I call it the headline's...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf and a FIDE Headline: Two Different Games in One FileA file landed on my laptop last week. The headline line was unambiguous: Timu...
ChessThat Night in Samarkand and the Shadow of an Advertisement: A Year's Worth of Women's Team Chess News GatheringWhen Niaz Murshed became South Asia's first Grandmaster in 2026, there was no...
ChessFour Boards, One Arithmetic: India's Women, Poland, and the Wrong Address of an 'Achilles Heel'It was half past nine at a coffee shop in Penang when I opened my laptop....
ChessA World Champion on Board Four: India's 5/5 Scoreline and Dhaka's Unfinished LedgerWhen the Lineup Itself Becomes a Move I laid the board out, and the pattern h...