Chess
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: Auditing FIDE’s Prison Chess Championship2026-10-2513–23 May 2026. Eleven days. Seventy-seven teams. Five continents. Open,...
An IM Norm at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance and a Date Still Under Check2026-10-25Let the engine go quiet for a second — listen to the room. We do not have the...
A Board Inside the Cell: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and the Paperwork Nobody Published2026-10-25On 23 May 2026 the first Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners closed...
The Maintenance Economy of the Najdorf: Daniel King's Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Club Player's Real Bill2026-10-25I open every column with one verified figure. Tonight the figure is sixty —...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and Chess's New Preparation EconomyA March 2026 afternoon in the Prague festival hall. The game ends on move...
77 Teams, Five Continents, One Empty Column: Auditing the First Continental Chess Championship for PrisonersThirteen to twenty-three May 2026. Eleven days, 77 teams, five continents,...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: Auditing FIDE’s Prison Chess Championship13–23 May 2026. Eleven days. Seventy-seven teams. Five continents. Open,...
The Najdorf Patch and the Arithmetic of Expiry: Auditing Daniel King's 60-Minute Repertoire UpdateOn Monday night I sat reconciling sixteen information points from a review...
A 2465 performance at eleven — and a date that has not arrived yet"The headlines changed first; we only heard the new words a week later." For...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: A Ledger Audit of Daniel King's Update PackageI took out the stopwatch before I pressed play. Sixty minutes, five line...
An IM Norm at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance and a Date Still Under CheckLet the engine go quiet for a second — listen to the room. We do not have the...
A Board Inside the Cell: 77 Teams, Five Continents — and the Paperwork Nobody PublishedOn 23 May 2026 the first Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners closed...
Wesley So beats Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks, wins fourth US Chess Championship titleI went looking for the match and found the empty seat first. The last classic...
The Maintenance Economy of the Najdorf: Daniel King's Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, and the Club Player's Real BillI open every column with one verified figure. Tonight the figure is sixty —...
