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One Headline, Another Product: Six Videos, Seven Openings, and Chess Media's Empty Seat
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Headline With Nothing Behind It
Samarkand Olympiad: Savitha Shri's 7/7, Her Father's Exhausted Savings, and the Question Nobody Is Asking
The Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Silence in the Data
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Festival, the Samarkand Confusion, and the Blockchain of Information
The Sword Hanging Over a5: What the Scandinavian Defense's One-Hour Promise Really Delivers
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Headline With Nothing Behind ItLast Tuesday morning a file landed on my desk. The headline said: Samarkand,...
Samarkand Olympiad: Savitha Shri's 7/7, Her Father's Exhausted Savings, and the Question Nobody Is AskingLast Thursday in Samarkand, a dead draw survived nearly five hours on board...
The Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Promise and the Silence in the DataHook: The Weight of a Missing Date The first thing I went looking for was the...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague Festival, the Samarkand Confusion, and the Blockchain of InformationOne morning a folder arrived on my desk. It was labelled CBM225. A yellow...
The Sword Hanging Over a5: What the Scandinavian Defense's One-Hour Promise Really DeliversThe frame is paused on the screen. The black queen has settled on a5, and...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and One Wrong Headline: What ChessBase Magazine #225 Doesn't SayI opened the file and stopped at the first line. The headline announced...
Seven Receipts from Board Five: Savitha Shri at Samarkand, a Father's Ledger, and the Numbers That Have Not ArrivedThe Trap Between Two Sentences In the eight rounds of Samarkand 2026 that the...
A Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Page: One Gap in Chess's Information TrailOn my balcony chair in Khulna I opened the link on my phone expecting one thi...
Samarkand in the Headline, a Training Package in Hand: ChessBase Magazine #225 and the Credibility Gap in Chess InformationThe headline was specific: Samarkand, round eight, women's section, China...
One Headline, Another Product: Six Videos, Seven Openings, and Chess Media's Empty SeatI learned the press room by counting what no one asked. Seventeen years on, I...