Chess
The Third Room of Sixty-Four Squares: 77 Teams at FIDE's Prison Chess Championship, and a Leaderboard That Prints No Names
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and an Undated Review: Auditing the Najdorf Update
A Najdorf Label on Elephant Gambit Goods: Auditing a 60-Minute Chess Course
First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Silence of Names
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Silent Hall: The Truth About Prison Chess the Scoreboard Never Tells
Prison Chess's First Continental Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Arithmetic Still Missing
First Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Silence of NamesImagine a spreadsheet with 77 rows — each row a team, each cell a continent,...
The Third Room of Sixty-Four Squares: 77 Teams at FIDE's Prison Chess Championship, and a Leaderboard That Prints No NamesI was not in that room. That is the most honest sentence in this report, so i...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Silent Hall: The Truth About Prison Chess the Scoreboard Never TellsBonn, 2026. At three in the morning I wrote, not a move, but a hand — Kramnik...
Prison Chess's First Continental Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Arithmetic Still MissingThe loudest sound in a prison chess room is the clock. On the morning of 13 M...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Files and One Quietly Expensive Lesson: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225The applause in the Prague festival hall that afternoon never quite finished....
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Ledger of FIDE's Prison Chess Championship77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Ledger of FIDE's Prison Chess...
77 Teams Behind Bars, Five Continents: The Real Ledger of FIDE's First Continental Prison Chess ChampionshipThree weeks before the press box opened, the spreadsheet was ready. The probl...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: A Match Won on Tiebreak, and a Report With the Chess MissingI opened the spreadsheet again, and the match started telling a different...
A Gambit, a 2,465 Performance and a Pending Verification: An 11-Year-Old's IM NormLast week I sat down to find a move list. A Vietnamese-language report said a...
A 60-Minute Elephant Gambit Course Sold Under a Najdorf Headline: Auditing an Opening ProductThe headline says Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation. Every information point...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and an Undated Review: Auditing the Najdorf UpdateI opened the file, put my 1,180-game archive on the desk, and expected a...
Wesley So Wins Fourth US Chess Title Over Caruana in TiebreaksThe question repeated most in the stream chat was not technical. "By which ru...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Three Rounds, SuperChess Face Bayegan Pendik in Round FourI opened the standings sheet before the headline, and within thirty seconds t...
A Najdorf Label on Elephant Gambit Goods: Auditing a 60-Minute Chess CourseThe headline says Najdorf Poisoned Queen — the Sicilian branch where, after...