Chess
Capablanca's Buenos Aires 2026 and the Bayonet's 9...a5: One Page, Two Ledgers
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: A Receipt for Maintenance, Not Theory
Eleven Years Old, a 2465 Performance — and a Calendar That Will Not Close
The Najdorf Ledger: 60 Minutes, Five Lines, and One Unfinished Sentence
The Economics of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters and a Missing Date
ChessCapablanca's Buenos Aires 2026 and the Bayonet's 9...a5: One Page, Two LedgersEleven information points. Zero mentions of Capablanca. That ratio is the fir...
ChessSixty Minutes of Najdorf: A Receipt for Maintenance, Not TheoryIn a community hall in Ahmedabad, in the heat of May 2026, the third round of...
ChessEleven Years Old, a 2465 Performance — and a Calendar That Will Not CloseIt was two in the morning when a report written in Vietnamese surfaced on my...
ChessThe Najdorf Ledger: 60 Minutes, Five Lines, and One Unfinished SentenceThis is a review of GM Daniel King's FritzTrainer update for the Sicilian...
ChessThe Economics of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters and a Missing DateThe review has no date. No byline, no outlet, no day of publication. And the...
ChessA 2,465 Performance Rating, Seven Games and One Mismatched Date: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM ClaimThe evening of 23 October, board one. An eleven-year-old playing black entere...
ChessAn 11-Year-Old's IM Norm: A 2,465 Performance, Verification PendingIn the final round, black, a gambit line, a pawn up, and a game that survived...
ChessAn 11-Year-Old IM: A Record Whose Timeline Must Be Verified FirstIn a final-round game played on October 23, a score of 5.5/7 on board one: fi...
ChessElephant Gambit Under a Najdorf Label: A 60-Minute Course, Zero SampleLast week I opened a promo. The headline said 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen...