Chess
An 11-Year-Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating and an IM Claim: The Column the Ledger Hasn't Filled Yet
Budva’s 2715 and Barcelona’s Headline: A Data Audit of the 108-Team European Club Cup
Sixty Minutes Against the Heaviest Theory in Chess: The Real Price of a Najdorf Update
2,465 and Seven Games: How to Actually Read the 11-Year-Old IM's 'Record'
Sixty Minutes Against the Heaviest Theory in Chess: The Real Price of a Najdorf UpdateA December afternoon in Chennai, 2026. Minutes after he had completed his...
2,465 and Seven Games: How to Actually Read the 11-Year-Old IM's 'Record'The game on October 23 reads as 1-0 on the scoresheet. Black pieces, a gambit...
FIDE's First Continental Prisoners Chess Championship: The Global Claim of 77 Teams, and the Silence of DataBetween May 13 and May 23, 2026, the first Continental Chess Championship for...
An 11-Year-Old, a 2,465 Performance Rating and an IM Claim: The Column the Ledger Hasn't Filled YetSeven rounds. Five wins, one draw, one loss. 5.5/7 on board one, and a...
Najdorf in Sixty Minutes? Five Line Clusters, Twelve Minutes Each — and the Invoice for a Maintenance ReleaseSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Do the arithmetic: eleven to twelve minute...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update and Its Real Price for India's Club PlayerLast month, in the corridor of a Chennai academy, I watched a coach's laptop...
European Club Cup 2026: Eleven Teams Tied in the Open Section After Three Rounds; Giri–Abdusattorov Projected on Board One in Round FourThree rounds are complete, and if you open the open-section standings looking...
Budva’s 2715 and Barcelona’s Headline: A Data Audit of the 108-Team European Club CupOn 19 October 2026, the first anomaly in this brief is editorial, not chess....
Vahap Sanal in the Headline, Najdorf in the Body: The Record Where the Name Went MissingA page opened on my screen last week. The headline said Vahap Sanal and Team...