Chess
A 2,465 Performance Rating in Seven Games: How Far Does an 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Hold Up?
The Real Price of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and Theory’s Expiry Date
Najdorf on the Label, Elephant on the Board: A 60-Minute Course and Chess's Quietly Widening Gap
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Was Settled by a Tiebreak Clock — and Only 11% of the Story Was About Him
108 Boards in Budva, One Barcelona Headline: The European Club Cup Story the Headline Buried
A 2,465 Performance Rating in Seven Games: How Far Does an 11-Year-Old's IM Claim Hold Up?Seven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. A performance rating of 2,465. An...
The Real Price of a Najdorf Update: Sixty Minutes, Five Lines and Theory’s Expiry DateSeptember 2026, the World Trade Center in New York. The Anand–Kasparov PCA...
Najdorf on the Label, Elephant on the Board: A 60-Minute Course and Chess's Quietly Widening GapAt 1 a.m. the stadium was a phone screen and one tab that would not close. Th...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title Was Settled by a Tiebreak Clock — and Only 11% of the Story Was About HimThe clock in that Kolkata office ran eleven minutes fast. Nobody noticed but...
108 Boards in Budva, One Barcelona Headline: The European Club Cup Story the Headline BuriedThe board-order sheet was pinned to the wall of a hotel conference hall in...
European Club Cup in Budva: 108 Teams, 22 Teams, and One 2715 AverageOne hundred and eight teams. Twenty-two teams. Both numbers come off the same...
A Najdorf Headline, an Elephant Gambit Body: The Ledger of a Sixty-Minute CourseI opened the spreadsheet hoping to find an accounting of the Najdorf Poisoned...
Sixty Minutes, One Opening, One Mismatched Headline: Auditing the Scandinavian Defense's MarketingThe first thing that surfaced when I opened the file at the verification desk...
A Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, a Fritz 20 Ad in the Body: Auditing a Chess News ItemTwo tabs were open on my screen. The first carried a headline that glowed:...