Chess
India Stranded Without Hotel Rooms in Samarkand: When Logistics Becomes a Variable Before Round 1 of the 2026 Chess OlympiadThe night before Round 1 of the 2026 Chess Olympiad, in the lobby of the Silk...
Not the Hotel: Why India's Lost Rooms in Samarkand Is Really a Story About an Endgame About to BeginWhen Srinath Narayanan, captain of the Indian chess team, posted a status...
Stronger Than When They Won the Olympiad: Coach Misra's Claim and Four Measurements Nobody Has MadeInside the press room of a converted factory hall in Budapest, during the...
Chess Olympiad 2026 in Samarkand: India Defends a Double Crown and a Data Gap No One Has FilledA promotional article promising to tell readers where and how to watch the 20...
The Knight Kicked Off f6: Anatomy of 5.e5 and the Data Trap in the Opening-Content IndustryDA NANG — Late at night, in a small riverside cafe overlooking the Han River,...
Samarkand awaits: Chess Olympiad 2026 and India's defense of the throneOn the chessboard at the heart of ancient Samarkand, where Timur once placed...
5.e5 in the Italian Game: Practical Weapon or an Unsolved Transposition PuzzleIn the summer of 2026, at an amateur chess tournament in Nha Trang, I sat...
Samarkand 2026: India Lost Its Rooms Before Round 1, and the Real Warning Signal Sits on Board OneThe Indian chess team landed in Samarkand. Roughly five hours later, captain...
Indian Women's Chess After the Olympiad Gold: When a Coach Says His Students Are 'Stronger' — and the Data Stays SilentA sentence like this recently appeared in the Indian chess world: the coach o...
Petroff, Two Positional-Play Courses, and the Limits of ChessBase's Self-ReviewOpening On a Tuesday evening, at table four of a small chess club tucked down...
