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ChessWesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess Championship Title2026-10-24On the last night of August 2026, in Saint Petersburg, I hosted a segment for...
ChessOne Name in the Headline, Another Story in the Body: The Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense2026-10-23In August 2026 I filed 640 words from Coimbatore. The desk ran 120 and a phot...
ChessI Went Looking for the NATO Chess Championship Cross-Table and Found a 60-Minute Najdorf Download2026-10-23I opened the file and counted first. Twelve information points. I read all...
ChessPackaging the Elephant Gambit in 60 Minutes: An Opening Sold Under a Najdorf Label2026-10-23The headline says 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation'. Not one sentence in the...
ChessThe First Prison-Chess Ledger: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Scoresheet Nobody Opened2026-10-24On 13 May 2026 an online chess tournament opened with 77 teams, drawn from fi...
ChessEleven Teams, One Scoreline: What the European Club Cup Scoreboard Still Isn't Telling Us2026-10-24Before the scoreboard there is a bedsheet and a bad signal. The chief arbiter...
ChessThe First Prison-Chess Ledger: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Scoresheet Nobody OpenedOn 13 May 2026 an online chess tournament opened with 77 teams, drawn from fi...
ChessEleven Teams, One Scoreline: What the European Club Cup Scoreboard Still Isn't Telling UsBefore the scoreboard there is a bedsheet and a bad signal. The chief arbiter...
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title, and the Story Whose Body Was Born Somewhere ElseThe headline was unambiguous. Wesley So beat Fabiano Caruana in the tiebreak...
ChessEuropean Club Cup After Three Rounds: Eleven Teams Level, and the Count the Headline Left OutThree rounds. The open section. Eleven teams sitting on the same match-point...
ChessWesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess Championship TitleOn the last night of August 2026, in Saint Petersburg, I hosted a segment for...
ChessEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Round 3, While the Headline Counts Three Co-LeadersEuropean Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Level After Round 3, While the Headline...
ChessA Rachel Li Headline, a Scandinavian Body: Auditing 12 Claims With Zero Sources"Rachel Li stunningly wins US Women's Championship" — that sentence sits in t...
ChessA President Who Never Held the Office, and Five Paragraphs of FritzStatus: provisional. This column is written against the public record availab...
ChessOne Name in the Headline, Another Story in the Body: The Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian DefenseIn August 2026 I filed 640 words from Coimbatore. The desk ran 120 and a phot...
ChessA September Issue, a Spring Event: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225There is one sentence in the release copy for ChessBase Magazine #225: "the...
ChessEuropean Club Cup: The Real Arithmetic Behind Novy Bor and SuperChess's 'Perfect' RecordI read that page three times. The headline said Novy Bor and SuperChess were...
ChessTwenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators, One September Issue: A Ledger of Chess's Media LayerTwenty-seven. Not eleven, not fifteen — exactly twenty-seven miniatures. In t...
ChessI Went Looking for the NATO Chess Championship Cross-Table and Found a 60-Minute Najdorf DownloadI opened the file and counted first. Twelve information points. I read all...
ChessOne Headline, Two Openings: The Ledger of the Najdorf 'Poisoned Queen' and the Elephant GambitIt took eleven seconds to open the promo page, and in those eleven seconds on...
ChessPackaging the Elephant Gambit in 60 Minutes: An Opening Sold Under a Najdorf LabelThe headline says 'Najdorf Poisoned Queen Variation'. Not one sentence in the...