Chess
Savitha Shri: A Father's Career Gamble, a Three-Year Savings Ledger, and Seven Wins in Samarkand
5.e5!: One Pawn, Three Jobs, Three Questions — and Sarana's Unrecorded King Walk
Five Lines in Sixty Minutes: The Najdorf Refresh and FIDE's Blank Receipt
Five Hours Lost, Fifty-Four Moves Back: Gukesh's Escape and India's Ledger of Single-Point Dependence
The Steel Cupboard, Installment 740, and the Unfinished Promise of 5.e5
5.e5!: One Pawn, Three Jobs, Three Questions — and Sarana's Unrecorded King WalkThe headline promised a king walk. The column delivered a pawn. The headline...
Five Lines in Sixty Minutes: The Najdorf Refresh and FIDE's Blank ReceiptThe document that arrived in my weekly pipeline refresh this week is not one...
Five Hours Lost, Fifty-Four Moves Back: Gukesh's Escape and India's Ledger of Single-Point DependenceHook The fourth board in the corner of the Samarkand hall drew a slightly...
The Steel Cupboard, Installment 740, and the Unfinished Promise of 5.e5There is a small steel cupboard beside my desk in Khulna. On its upper shelf...
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Gukesh's Escape, India's Hanging Gold, and the Mirror Bangladesh Never Gets to HoldA secondhand laptop in a Mymensingh bedroom, a relay board on the screen, and...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Body Cost of Chess Training and the Forensics of a Mismatched HeadlineThe wire came from Samarkand. Round 8, women's team event, China ahead on...
A German Win in the Headline, a 60-Minute Course in the Body: A Source-Integrity LedgerA feed item landed in my reader this week. The headline said: "Samarkand R8...
Board Five in Samarkand, and a Bank Statement in ChennaiIn the Samarkand hall, the clock on board five has just crossed five hours. A...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Board, a Father's Gamble, and Savings That Ran Out in Three YearsThe hall in Samarkand is nearly out of time on a Thursday round. Five hours o...
Savitha Shri: A Father's Career Gamble, a Three-Year Savings Ledger, and Seven Wins in SamarkandSamarkand, 2026. On a Thursday night at the Chess Olympiad, after nearly five...