Chess
The Sword of Damocles: What a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course Can and Cannot Teach
A Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Body: When Chess News Got Separated From Its Own Reality
A Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Body: The Block That Never Validated in the Chess Market
One Move, Three Replies, and an Empty Source Box
Samarkand's Scoreline, a 60-Minute Video: The Mislabeled Chess Feed
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes, One Tempo's Debt, and the Weight of Carlsen's Name
One Move, Three Replies, and an Empty Source Box1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.e5! — a five-move sequence packaged a...
The Sword of Damocles: What a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course Can and Cannot TeachMy notebook still holds the arithmetic of that rapid game: eleven moves, and...
Samarkand's Scoreline, a 60-Minute Video: The Mislabeled Chess FeedAt 2:14 in the morning a headline surfaced in my feed — “Samarkand R8 (open):...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes, One Tempo's Debt, and the Weight of Carlsen's NameSeven in the evening, Penang. A small club room, three boards, and at one of...
Scandinavian in Sixty Minutes: Carlsen in the Ad, a Blank in the ScoresheetA thirteen-point promotional copy. It landed a few days ago — an advertisemen...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Defense and the Uneven Ledger of Club ChessThe Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian Defense and the Uneven...
A Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Body: When Chess News Got Separated From Its Own RealityIt was forty minutes past eleven at night in Mymensingh, and the laptop scree...
The Title Says Samarkand, the Content Says Prague: A Fracture in the Chess Information Market and the Economics of Training MaterialHook: A headline that does not recognise its own body Late in August a headli...
A Misfiled Card in the Steel Cupboard: ChessBase Magazine #225, the Samarkand Shadow, and the Ledger of the Training MarketIn April 2026, in the steel cupboard of the federation hall at Purana Paltan,...
Silence on Board Five: Savitha's 7/7 and a Family's Unfinished LedgerHook — Five Hours on Board Five In the Samarkand playing hall the clock leane...
A Samarkand Headline on a Scandinavian Body: The Block That Never Validated in the Chess MarketI stopped at the headline. “Samarkand R8 (open): Germany stun Uzbekistan, joi...