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The Samarkand Round 8 Headline, a Sixty-Minute Course, and a Ledger That Does Not Balance
Savitha Shri's 7/7: What the Scoreboard Omits, and the Ledger of a Father's Savings
The King Walk No Camera Recorded: An Olympiad Headline, the Scotch Gambit's Shadow, and the Quiet Arithmetic of 5.e5
Samarkand's Headline, Prague's Manuscript: The Chess Page Nobody Commissioned
The King Walk No Camera Recorded: An Olympiad Headline, the Scotch Gambit's Shadow, and the Quiet Arithmetic of 5.e5It is nearly two in the morning in a Saint Petersburg kitchen. A cup of tea...
Samarkand's Headline, Prague's Manuscript: The Chess Page Nobody CommissionedThe headline was unambiguous: Samarkand, round eight, women's section, China...
The Headline Says Samarkand, the Catalogue Says Prague: Auditing the Chess Training MarketThe Headline Says Samarkand, the Catalogue Says Prague The email arrived at...
Samarkand in the Title, Prague in the Notebook: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Ledger of the Chess-Content EconomyI opened the contents page of ChessBase Magazine #225 last week, built around...
Five Hours in Samarkand: The Reserve Board Backed by a Father's ResignationThe clock said almost five hours. The boards in the Samarkand hall had a tire...
The Samarkand Round 8 Headline, a Sixty-Minute Course, and a Ledger That Does Not BalanceIt was half past midnight. On my laptop in a Mumbai flat: my chess-media log,...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: What the Scoreboard Omits, and the Ledger of a Father's SavingsA Thursday round in Samarkand. What the live scoreboard showed late in a...