Chess
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents and a Missing Scoresheet: Auditing the Prison Chess Championship2026-10-25On the morning of 23 May 2026 I went looking for a crosstable and came back...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: An Opening Course Hidden Inside the Tiebreak Report2026-10-24I opened the spreadsheet again, and the match started telling a different...
ChessFourth Title and a Missing Scoresheet: A Data Audit of Wesley So's US Chess Championship Win2026-10-24Nine information points. One headline. When I started auditing this report on...
ChessBudva's 2715 and a Barcelona Headline: The Real Fight at the European Club Cup Is Not on Board One2026-10-23This week my notebook's first page carries two cities at once. The headline...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: After Three Rounds, the Real Leaderboard Is the Column Nobody Prints2026-10-23I do not start with the score column. I go straight to the tiebreak column,...
Four Names From Saint Louis, Six Videos: The Shop Inside a Chess HeadlineThe headline said Saint Louis. It carried four names — Fabiano Caruana, Hikar...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Missing Scoresheet: Auditing the Prison Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 23 May 2026 I went looking for a crosstable and came back...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections: The First Continental Chapter of Prison ChessThirteen May 2026. The first round begins and there is no gallery. No press...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: An Opening Course Hidden Inside the Tiebreak ReportI opened the spreadsheet again, and the match started telling a different...
Fourth Title and a Missing Scoresheet: A Data Audit of Wesley So's US Chess Championship WinNine information points. One headline. When I started auditing this report on...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and the Story That Was Really Selling a Video CourseA tiebreak room is the quietest noise in chess. Two players sit still, hands ...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: A Ledger, a Headline, and a Claim With No SourceHook: A Headline Sitting on a Shop Listing In November 2026, during the first...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, But the Coverage Ledger Doesn't BalanceThere were nine information points. The first was Wesley So — a fourth US Che...
An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf Label: Auditing a 60-Minute Opening CourseKolkata, midday. One laptop, one browser tab, and two layers inside that tab....
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level Is a Scoring-System Output, Not a Strength MeasurementThe third round ended, and the open-section standings opened on eleven teams...
Budva's 2715 and a Barcelona Headline: The Real Fight at the European Club Cup Is Not on Board OneThis week my notebook's first page carries two cities at once. The headline...
An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf Label: A Ledger Audit of Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Course"1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!?" and "6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6" — two strings on the same produc...
European Club Cup 2026: After Three Rounds, the Real Leaderboard Is the Column Nobody PrintsI do not start with the score column. I go straight to the tiebreak column,...
Carlsen's Real Admission: Not AI, but the Five-Hour EnduranceOn 21 October, in an interview syndicated through Marca and sourced to AS,...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Missing Scoresheet: Auditing the Prison Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 23 May 2026 I went looking for a crosstable and came back...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections: The First Continental Chapter of Prison ChessThirteen May 2026. The first round begins and there is no gallery. No press...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: An Opening Course Hidden Inside the Tiebreak ReportI opened the spreadsheet again, and the match started telling a different...
Fourth Title and a Missing Scoresheet: A Data Audit of Wesley So's US Chess Championship WinNine information points. One headline. When I started auditing this report on...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and the Story That Was Really Selling a Video CourseA tiebreak room is the quietest noise in chess. Two players sit still, hands ...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: A Ledger, a Headline, and a Claim With No SourceHook: A Headline Sitting on a Shop Listing In November 2026, during the first...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: Caruana Beaten in Tiebreaks, But the Coverage Ledger Doesn't BalanceThere were nine information points. The first was Wesley So — a fourth US Che...
An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf Label: Auditing a 60-Minute Opening CourseKolkata, midday. One laptop, one browser tab, and two layers inside that tab....
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level Is a Scoring-System Output, Not a Strength MeasurementThe third round ended, and the open-section standings opened on eleven teams...
Budva's 2715 and a Barcelona Headline: The Real Fight at the European Club Cup Is Not on Board OneThis week my notebook's first page carries two cities at once. The headline...
An Elephant Gambit Sold Under a Najdorf Label: A Ledger Audit of Andrew Martin's 60-Minute Course"1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5!?" and "6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6" — two strings on the same produc...
European Club Cup 2026: After Three Rounds, the Real Leaderboard Is the Column Nobody PrintsI do not start with the score column. I go straight to the tiebreak column,...
Carlsen's Real Admission: Not AI, but the Five-Hour EnduranceOn 21 October, in an interview syndicated through Marca and sourced to AS,...