Chess
European Club Cup After Three Rounds: Eleven Teams Level, Two Unbeaten, and a Board One That Is Still Only a Projection
European Club Cup in Budva: One Team at 2715 Average, Four Above 2600, 103 Below — Where Average Rating Is Not a Title Guarantee
Wesley So Beat Caruana in Tiebreaks for a Fourth US Title — In a Report Where the Chess Is Missing
The Headline Said US Women's Championship. The Body Was a 60-Minute Scandinavian Video: Auditing a File With Twelve Empty Source Fields
ChessWesley So Beat Caruana in Tiebreaks for a Fourth US Title — In a Report Where the Chess Is MissingI opened that report the way I open a fresh position — pieces counted first,...
ChessThe Headline Said US Women's Championship. The Body Was a 60-Minute Scandinavian Video: Auditing a File With Twelve Empty Source FieldsThe headline carried Rachel Li's name and the US Women's Championship title....
ChessWesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Is Where Preparation Depth Loses to the ClockThe classical phase ended level. Boards were cleared, the arbiter reset the...
ChessEuropean Club Cup After Three Rounds: Eleven Teams Level, Two Unbeaten, and a Board One That Is Still Only a ProjectionI read the standings sheet three times. The first pass gave me the headline:...
ChessRachel Li in the Headline, Scandinavian Defense in the Body: Auditing a 60-Minute ClaimLast week a file landed on my desk under the headline: "Rachel Li stunningly...
ChessCarlsen: 15 Years at No. 1, but His Real Opponent Is No Longer the Engine — It's the Five-Hour ClockThe most shared line from the interview published in Marca on 21 October...
ChessTimur Turlov Is Not the FIDE President — And the Body of That Story Was Selling FRITZ 20The headline was loud. “FIDE President Timur Turlov meets Cyprus President...
ChessCarlsen's Confession: The Truth About Human Limits, and a Claim to Be Tested in BudapestOne night in October, my laptop in a Hyderabad apartment was split in two. On...
ChessEuropean Club Cup in Budva: One Team at 2715 Average, Four Above 2600, 103 Below — Where Average Rating Is Not a Title GuaranteeSample first, then source, then date — and only then the sentence. The brief...
ChessThe Headline Named the Wrong FIDE President. The Body Was Selling FRITZ 20.At seventeen minutes past two in the morning, a screenshot landed on my Delhi...
ChessCarlsen's Rewired Chess: From Line-Specific Prep to Principles, and the 5–6 Hour Endurance AdmissionThe most quoted line from the Marca interview (original source: AS, 21 Octobe...