Chess
Chess Olympiad 2026: India defend double gold as Samarkand tests the board-one myth
5.e5 in the Italian Game: The Practical Power of a Club Weapon, and the Trap Called 'Easy to Learn'
9...a5 in the Bayonet Attack: When the King's Indian Chooses Understanding Over Memorisation
Chess Olympiad 2026 opens in Samarkand: a 4-0 win and a 2.5-1.5 win are worth exactly the same
Chess Olympiad 2026: India defend double gold as Samarkand tests the board-one mythAt Budapest in the autumn of 2026, I sat in front of my screen until the...
9...a5 in the Bayonet Attack: When the King's Indian Chooses Understanding Over MemorisationSaigon, close to eleven at night, a chess club on the second floor of a narro...
Chess Olympiad 2026 opens in Samarkand: a 4-0 win and a 2.5-1.5 win are worth exactly the sameOn the floor of the Silk Road International Exhibition Centre in Samarkand,...
Pakistan Boycotts Israel Match at Samarkand Olympiad: The Forfeit Written Before the First MoveWednesday of opening-round week, FIDE World Chess Olympiad 2026, Samarkand. O...
Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh and the Coach's Claim of Being 'Stronger Than at the Olympiad'"Stronger than when they won the Olympiad." I kept that sentence intact,...
Samarkand 2026: The Night Without Rooms for India's Chess Team and the Limits of an OlympiadSamarkand 2026: The Night Without Rooms for India's Chess Team and the Limits...
Samarkand 2026: The Night Without Rooms for the Double ChampionThe Indian chess delegation landed in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Roughly five hou...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends the Double, Gukesh, and the Unresolved Broadcast RightsIn September 2026, in Budapest, I watched the final round of the Chess Olympi...
The 5.e5 Move in the Italian Game: A 60-Minute Weapon and the Data Gap Nobody Has MeasuredOn a chessboard in a small café on Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in Nha Trang, th...
The 5.e5 Move and the '60-Minute' Trap: The Truth Behind 'Knight Magic'THE 5.e5 MOVE AND THE '60-MINUTE' TRAP: THE TRUTH BEHIND 'KNIGHT MAGIC' On an...
5.e5 in the Italian Game: The Practical Power of a Club Weapon, and the Trap Called 'Easy to Learn'On a chessboard by the window of a coffee shop on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in ...
