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The Headline Named the Wrong FIDE President. The Body Was Selling FRITZ 20.
Budva by the Hundred: 108 Teams, One 2715, and the 22 That Never Make the Count
77 Teams, Five Continents, Not One Recorded Move: FIDE's Largest Prison Chess Experiment
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Prisoners' Chess Championship Story Lives in the Logistics, Not the Scoreboard
77 Teams, Five Continents, Not One Recorded Move: FIDE's Largest Prison Chess Experiment13 May 2026. The hour when prisons take their count — the sound of locks, the...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Prisoners' Chess Championship Story Lives in the Logistics, Not the ScoreboardOn 13 May 2026 a chess event began with 77 teams from five continents and thr...
A Najdorf Label on Elephant Gambit Goods: Auditing a 60-Minute Chess CourseThe landing page carried one headline and two openings. The top line read...
The Headline Named the Wrong FIDE President. The Body Was Selling FRITZ 20.The file said one thing. The body said another. I sat with both — literally,...
Not Carlsen's 'Humans Aren't That Good' Line — His Silence About the Five-Hour Game Is the Real StoryThe Magnus Carlsen interview that Marca ran on 21 October contains not a sing...
FIDE's President Is Dvorkovich, Not Turlov — and Under That Headline Sat a FRITZ 20 AdA September evening, a Salt Lake flat, two phones and a router that has been...
Budva's European Club Cup: The 2715 Average, 108 Teams, and a Headline Pointing at the Wrong CountryLast week this brief landed on my desk. The headline said Barcelona — the MOV...
Budva by the Hundred: 108 Teams, One 2715, and the 22 That Never Make the CountThe convention hall in Budva, October 2026, the end of round two. The standin...
Wrong FIDE President in the Headline, FRITZ 20 Ad Copy in the Body: A Content Audit6:40 a.m., Brisbane. I was filling the last column of Monday night's...
I Opened a NATO Championship Report and Found Sixty Minutes of NajdorfAt 1:17 a.m. a file opened on my laptop. The headline said: "Vahap Sanal and...
European Club Cup 2026: Three Rounds, Eleven Teams Level, and a Giri–Abdusattorov Board One That Is Still Only 'Potential'The report that reached me has no room in it. Tuesday, 20 October 2026. Three...
Budva's European Club Cup: a 2715 average, 108 teams, and a headline that sends you to BarcelonaOn the morning of October 19, 2026, two documents sat on my desk in Pune. The...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures, Four Annotators and an Unproven 'Latest Trends' ClaimOn the ChessBase Magazine #225 product page, the loudest number is 27....
ChessBase Magazine #225: Counting 27 Miniatures, and a Claim the Catalogue Cannot SettleLast week I opened ChessBase's September release list and did the first thing...