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Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape, and India's Gold Dangling on One Board
What the Board Remembers, the Camera Loses: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 and One Wrong Headline
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Board Hero Story and a Family's Savings Gone in Three Years
Gukesh's Escape, India's Risk: What Round 9 in Samarkand Actually Showed
5.e5 and the Missing Move List: A Ledger Audit of a Club Weapon
The King Walked, But Where Was the Board? 5.e5!, Sarana's Missing Game, and the Club Player's Unequal Load
Gukesh's Escape, India's Risk: What Round 9 in Samarkand Actually ShowedStart Board first, names second. The position that was building on my laptop ...
5.e5 and the Missing Move List: A Ledger Audit of a Club WeaponThe headline was crisp. Alexei Sarana had apparently taken his king for a wal...
Samarkand Round 9: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape, and India's Gold Dangling on One BoardThe clock on board four in Samarkand had already crossed five hours. D Gukesh...
The King Walked, But Where Was the Board? 5.e5!, Sarana's Missing Game, and the Club Player's Unequal LoadLast week I sat down with an opening column and, out of habit, did the first...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Where Training Is Sold, and Who Pays the BillLate last August, one in the morning in a Delhi club room. Two boards on the...
A Samarkand Headline Around a Prague Catalogue: The Real Question Inside ChessBase Magazine #225“Round 8, women’s section, China lead with 15/16.” The file landed on my desk...
What the Board Remembers, the Camera Loses: Reading ChessBase Magazine #225 and One Wrong HeadlineAt eleven at night in a Saint Petersburg flat, the first thing to appear on t...
A Samarkand Headline and a Scandinavian DVD: Two Different Truths in One FileThe headline landed in my feed a little before eleven at night: Germany had...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Board Hero Story and a Family's Savings Gone in Three YearsHook: Five hours, four boards, and one dead draw Thursday's round left India'...
One Board in the Headline, Another in the Body: Samarkand Round 8, the Scandinavian Defense, and a Sixty-Minute CatalogueIt was two in the morning in Dublin and seven in the morning in Dhaka when th...