Chess
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Prague Board, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Economy of Annotation
77 Teams, Three Sections and a Missing Data Column: What We Cannot See in the Online Prison Chess Championship
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship, Won in Tiebreaks — and the Scoresheet Nobody Printed
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Ledger of 27 Miniatures from Chess Festival Prague 2026
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Data Gap Inside the Prisoners' Chess Championship
ChessBase Magazine #225: A Ledger of 27 Miniatures from Chess Festival Prague 2026When the table of contents of ChessBase Magazine #225 opens, the first entry...
ChessBase Magazine #225: The Prague Board, Twenty-Seven Miniatures, and the Economy of AnnotationLast week, in Bangalore, I shut the window of my study, opened issue 225 of...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Data Gap Inside the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipOn 13 May 2026, FIDE published the numbers for the first continental chess...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: What Daniel King's Update Teaches — And What It Leaves OutSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Roughly twelve minutes per cluster. That i...
77 Teams, Three Sections and a Missing Data Column: What We Cannot See in the Online Prison Chess ChampionshipBetween 13 and 23 May 2026, 77 teams from five continents sat down together i...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship, Won in Tiebreaks — and the Scoresheet Nobody PrintedOne Headline, and the Empty Press Room Behind It "Wesley So beats Fabiano...
2465, 5.5/7 and an Unverified Calendar: Auditing an 11-Year-Old's IM ClaimOn 23 October, in the final round, she had the black pieces. The game opened...
5.5/7 and a 2465 Performance Rating: Where an Eleven-Year-Old's IM Claim Holds in the Data — and Where It SlipsThe last round on 23 October. Board one, black pieces, and opposite her a Wom...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Settled the Clock, Not the ChessThe moment the scoreboard in the tournament hall at the Saint Louis Chess Clu...
Eleven Teams, One Number: The Column Nobody Fills After Round Three of the European Club CupThe Count on a Tuesday Tuesday, 20 October 2026, mid-afternoon. Round three i...
