Chess
9...a5, the NNUE Shadow and the Dhaka Club-League Ledger: Three Ways We Misread the Bayonet ‘Antidote’December 2026. Three screens were lit in my room in Mymensingh — an old lapto...
The Empty Board in Samarkand: Yom Kippur, the Rule of Consent, and the Olympiad's Unwritten GapOn the fifth round at Samarkand's Savitsky Hotel, the boards were set one hou...
Achilles Heel Is a Label, Board Three Is an Arithmetic: The Recurring Poland-India Women's Motif in Round 5 of the Chess OlympiadThe laptop was balanced on my knee in the chess hall in Purana Paltan. A...
The Name That Is in No Table: The Scotch Game, an Empty Olympiad Column, and Chess's Textbook EconomyThe cheapest lie ever printed is a headline. In December 2026 I opened a ches...
Chess Olympiad: Why India picked Nihal Sarin as player of the day despite defeat in Uzbekistan clashThe hall was quiet in the way a chess hall is always quiet — not silent, but...
