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The Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Unfinished Audit of 5.e5!
Gukesh's Houdini, India's Gold Trail: The Round 9 Ledger at Samarkand
The Modern Italian's 5.e5! Strike: Evidence, Promotion and the Missing Denominator
A Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: The Question Buried Inside 27 Miniatures
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: The Unpublished Ledger of Chess Economics
The Archive's Label and the Board's Truth: The Ledger Behind ChessBase Magazine #225
Chess5.e5!: The Modern Italian Branch, Erigaisi's Board, and the Arithmetic Nobody Audits at Club LevelHalf past eleven at night. A club-level game sits open on one screen, both...
ChessThe Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Unfinished Audit of 5.e5!24 February, Tuesday, Bengaluru. In a club room in Indiranagar, on board two,...
ChessGukesh's Houdini, India's Gold Trail: The Round 9 Ledger at SamarkandRound 9 of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand will be remembered as Gukesh'...
ChessThe Modern Italian's 5.e5! Strike: Evidence, Promotion and the Missing DenominatorThe Board, Four Moves, and the Blow at Number Five I laid the board out, and...
Chess5.e5!: The Sharp Italian, One Showcase Game, and the Ledger Nobody BalancedBefore the fifth move landed on the board I had already counted one thing in ...
ChessNumber 740: Erigaisi's 5.e5! and the Quiet Board's Sharpest WeaponON THE BOARD, THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING IS NOT A PIECE. IT IS SPACE — AND SPAC...
ChessA King's Walk and Six Hours of Heartbeat: Reading Sarana's Hidden Olympiad Line Through the BodyI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than any tackl...
ChessRound 9 in Samarkand: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Single PillarRound 9 in Samarkand: 54 Moves, Five Hours, and India's Single Pillar Five...
ChessThe Debt on e5: Erigaisi's Italian Line and the Open Ledger of Club ChessTwo in the morning in a rented flat in Penang, and the only light is the...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: The Question Buried Inside 27 MiniaturesOn a September morning the file opened under the wrong name. The headline on...
ChessFive Hours Lost, 54 Moves Found: Gukesh Saves India's Gold Race and Exposes Its Fault Lines in SamarkandThe clock had passed five hours on the Gukesh–Donchenko board and the...
ChessThe Headline Without a Receipt: Samarkand's 15/16, ChessBase Magazine #225, and the Ledger of ProvenanceAt 2:40 a.m. in a Moscow flat I opened a file. The headline at the top read:...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: The Unpublished Ledger of Chess EconomicsSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: The Unpublished Ledger of Ches...
ChessThe Archive's Label and the Board's Truth: The Ledger Behind ChessBase Magazine #225The file was labelled Samarkand. Inside, it was Prague. Digging through a...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Claim, and What the Ledger SaysThe Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Claim, and What...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, One Tempo Ledger, and an Unverified NameAt twenty past eleven on a Friday night, a club player from Mumbai sent me a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Magazine #225 on the Page: One Metadata Error and the Invisible Ledger of the Chess EconomySamarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Magazine #225 on the Page: One Metadata...
ChessThe Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Says Another: Erigaisi, Laohawirapap and the Unfinished Audit of 5.e5!24 February, Tuesday, Bengaluru. In a club room in Indiranagar, on board two,...
ChessGukesh's Houdini, India's Gold Trail: The Round 9 Ledger at SamarkandRound 9 of the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand will be remembered as Gukesh'...
ChessThe Modern Italian's 5.e5! Strike: Evidence, Promotion and the Missing DenominatorThe Board, Four Moves, and the Blow at Number Five I laid the board out, and...
Chess5.e5!: The Sharp Italian, One Showcase Game, and the Ledger Nobody BalancedBefore the fifth move landed on the board I had already counted one thing in ...
ChessNumber 740: Erigaisi's 5.e5! and the Quiet Board's Sharpest WeaponON THE BOARD, THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING IS NOT A PIECE. IT IS SPACE — AND SPAC...
ChessA King's Walk and Six Hours of Heartbeat: Reading Sarana's Hidden Olympiad Line Through the BodyI counted heartbeats in Paltan, and the numbers confessed more than any tackl...
ChessRound 9 in Samarkand: Gukesh's 54-Move Escape and India's Single PillarRound 9 in Samarkand: 54 Moves, Five Hours, and India's Single Pillar Five...
ChessThe Debt on e5: Erigaisi's Italian Line and the Open Ledger of Club ChessTwo in the morning in a rented flat in Penang, and the only light is the...
ChessA Samarkand Headline, a Prague Board: The Question Buried Inside 27 MiniaturesOn a September morning the file opened under the wrong name. The headline on...
ChessFive Hours Lost, 54 Moves Found: Gukesh Saves India's Gold Race and Exposes Its Fault Lines in SamarkandThe clock had passed five hours on the Gukesh–Donchenko board and the...
ChessThe Headline Without a Receipt: Samarkand's 15/16, ChessBase Magazine #225, and the Ledger of ProvenanceAt 2:40 a.m. in a Moscow flat I opened a file. The headline at the top read:...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: The Unpublished Ledger of Chess EconomicsSamarkand in the Headline, Prague in the Body: The Unpublished Ledger of Ches...
ChessThe Archive's Label and the Board's Truth: The Ledger Behind ChessBase Magazine #225The file was labelled Samarkand. Inside, it was Prague. Digging through a...
ChessThe Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Claim, and What the Ledger SaysThe Sixty-Minute Sword: The Scandinavian Defense, the Carlsen Claim, and What...
ChessThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian, One Tempo Ledger, and an Unverified NameAt twenty past eleven on a Friday night, a club player from Mumbai sent me a...
ChessSamarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Magazine #225 on the Page: One Metadata Error and the Invisible Ledger of the Chess EconomySamarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Magazine #225 on the Page: One Metadata...