Chess
The 60-Minute Najdorf Audit: Five Lines, Eleven Minutes Each, and a Date That Isn't There
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Missing Denominator: Auditing the Prague 2026 Training Package
77 Teams, Five Continents and One Empty Column: Auditing the Prison Chess Championship
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Unreconciled Ledger: Where Is the First Prison-Chess Record?
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures and a Missing Denominator: Auditing the Prague 2026 Training PackageI read the contents page of ChessBase Magazine issue 225 three times. The fir...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents and One Empty Column: Auditing the Prison Chess ChampionshipI opened the results sheet for this tournament three times in May 2026. The...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, One Unreconciled Ledger: Where Is the First Prison-Chess Record?A blank page sits in my spiral notebook for 13 May 2026. On that date, under...
Chess2,465 in Seven Rounds: An Eleven-Year-Old's Headline Is a Calendar, Not a NormIt was the twenty-third of October. The fans in the hall were turning slowly,...
ChessThe 60-Minute Najdorf Audit: Five Lines, Eleven Minutes Each, and a Date That Isn't ThereThe review has no date. It has no byline. It has no publication attached to i...
Chess11 Years 7 Months 16 Days: The Record Entered the Ledger Before the Sample Size VotedOn the final round of 23 October, on board one, an 11-year-7-month-16-day-old...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Data Crisis in Prison ChessBetween 13 May 2026 and 23 May 2026, 77 teams from five continents played che...
ChessA 2,465 Performance Rating on Seven Games: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM ClaimThe final round on 23 October 2026. Board one. Black pieces. A gambit line, a...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Lost the Tiebreak, But a Video Course Was Being Sold Under the HeadlineWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win his fourth US Chess...
ChessThe Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: A Promise, a Missing Baseline, and a Headline in the Wrong EnvelopeThe file that opened on my desk last week had two different worlds sealed...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents and One Empty Column: Auditing the Prison Chess ChampionshipI opened the results sheet for this tournament three times in May 2026. The...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, One Unreconciled Ledger: Where Is the First Prison-Chess Record?A blank page sits in my spiral notebook for 13 May 2026. On that date, under...
Chess2,465 in Seven Rounds: An Eleven-Year-Old's Headline Is a Calendar, Not a NormIt was the twenty-third of October. The fans in the hall were turning slowly,...
ChessThe 60-Minute Najdorf Audit: Five Lines, Eleven Minutes Each, and a Date That Isn't ThereThe review has no date. It has no byline. It has no publication attached to i...
Chess11 Years 7 Months 16 Days: The Record Entered the Ledger Before the Sample Size VotedOn the final round of 23 October, on board one, an 11-year-7-month-16-day-old...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Data Crisis in Prison ChessBetween 13 May 2026 and 23 May 2026, 77 teams from five continents played che...
ChessA 2,465 Performance Rating on Seven Games: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM ClaimThe final round on 23 October 2026. Board one. Black pieces. A gambit line, a...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: Caruana Lost the Tiebreak, But a Video Course Was Being Sold Under the HeadlineWesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks to win his fourth US Chess...
ChessThe Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: A Promise, a Missing Baseline, and a Headline in the Wrong EnvelopeThe file that opened on my desk last week had two different worlds sealed...