Chess
Samarkand, 208 Chess Teams and India's Twin Thrones: Echoes from the Silk RoadInside the Silk Road International Exhibition Centre in Samarkand, the loudes...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: 11 Rounds, India's Double Crown and the Numbers Nobody Has Read YetSamarkand, and the Data Gap There is a small paradox I ran into while rereadi...
ChessBase August 2026: Three Authors, One Catalogue, and a Verification GapOn 13 September 2026, ChessBase published its new-release roundup under the...
Divya Deshmukh and Vaishali 'stronger than when they won the Olympiad': a testable claim nobody has testedI was sitting in the third row of a small press room in Delhi. A coach had ju...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends Two Crowns, and the Trap Sits on the Reserve Chair"That empty stadium, back then, gave me a tactical diagram lying quietly unde...
Chess Olympiad: Gukesh on Board 4 for India, Humpy Leads the Women's Team — and the Strategic Calculus Behind a LineupIndia's team lineup was released late one evening, quietly, the way the chess...
The Empty-Analysis Trap in Chess: A Beautiful Framework Cannot Save Empty DataIn 2026, inside the cramped analysis room of SHB Da Nang, I placed a...
The Blank Analysis Page: When Chess Data Refuses to LieLast Tuesday evening, I opened an in-depth chess analysis report I had waited...
The Blank Cell on the Analysis Sheet: Vietnamese Chess and the Limits of DataDa Nang, a night in August, half an hour before airtime. The...
Samarkand 2026: How India's Chess Squad Defends Its Olympiad Double Gold From a Roomless Hotel CorridorFive hours after the plane touched down in Samarkand, Srinath Narayanan -...
Stronger Than When They Won: A Coach's Praise and the Data Gap Nobody MeasuresIn Shanghai, I reopened a sports feed just to read one line. India's women's...
