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Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Not Gukesh's 'Houdini' but a Mirror of India's Dependence
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Thirteen Marketing Points and One Board's Ledger
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, Three Questions, One Empty Column
The Board-Four Houdini: The Crack Gukesh's Great Escape Is Covering Up
The File Titled Samarkand Contained Twenty-Seven Miniatures
Fifty-Four Moves in Samarkand: Not Gukesh's 'Houdini' but a Mirror of India's DependenceAt game's end in the Samarkand hall the clock touched five hours fourteen...
The Board-Four Houdini: The Crack Gukesh's Great Escape Is Covering UpI was not in Samarkand. I was at a kitchen table in Saint Petersburg with thr...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Thirteen Marketing Points and One Board's LedgerSixty minutes. A video, an opening, and one sentence — “it is doubtful White...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: Carlsen's Name, Three Questions, One Empty Column"Master it in sixty minutes, play it the same day." The promise is not the...
The File Titled Samarkand Contained Twenty-Seven MiniaturesAt 2.40 in the morning the phone screen delivered two things at once: a...
The Ledger in Chennai: Savitha's 7/7, Her Father's Three Years, and Chess's Empty SquaresFEBRUARY 2026. I spent four consecutive days in the hall of the Bangladesh...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: The Metadata Accident in Chess PublishingSamarkand. Round eight. Women's section. China ahead, 15/16. That headline...
The Queen's Leap and the Ledger of Empty Seats: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian DefenseAt a tea stall buried in a Purana Paltan lane, a club secretary balanced a...