Chess
Sixty Minutes and One Missing Game: The Claim-Chain Behind a Scandinavian Defense Course
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Body: The Scandinavian Defence and Bangladesh's Arithmetic
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Broken Runway of Family Capital in Indian Chess
Savitha Shri's Seven Wins: A Reserve-Board Hot Streak and a Family Budget That Ran Out in Three Years
Savitha Shri's Seven Wins: A Reserve-Board Hot Streak and a Family Budget That Ran Out in Three YearsThe fifth hour in Samarkand. Clocks nearly empty, fatigue drawing water to th...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve Board in Samarkand, Three Years of a Father's Savings, and an Unfinished LedgerI always write the conditions log first, because chess results cannot be read...
The Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian, and the Unpublished Load on a Chess Player's BodyA sixty-minute video, split into four chapters, on one subject: 1.e4 d5. The...
One Hour of Scandinavian, and 2026 Written in the NotebookLast week I opened a course promo and reached for my pen, because a number...
Sword of Damocles: A Sixty-Minute Course, One Unverified Name, and the Ledger of Bangladeshi ChessHook On the evening of 9 June 2026, beside a club tournament hall in Mirpur,...
Sixty Minutes and One Missing Game: The Claim-Chain Behind a Scandinavian Defense Course1...d5. That one move takes two seconds to write down. But the chain of claim...
Samarkand Round 8 and a 60-Minute Scandinavian: A Tactical Reading of a Source FailureI was sitting in the Purana Paltan hall between rounds with my laptop open an...
Seven Wins and a Three-Year Ledger: Savitha Shri's Reserve Board in Samarkand and the Invisible Bill of the Chess PipelineIn Samarkand that round took almost five hours. In a flat in Chennai a father...
Savitha Shri: The Fifth Board, Seven Wins, and a Budget That Ran Out in Three YearsThe clock at a Samarkand table had already crossed five hours. On India's fif...
From Reserve Board to 7/7: Savitha Shri in Samarkand, and a Father's Savings That Ran Out in Three YearsThe Thursday round took almost five hours. At one end of the Samarkand hall,...
A Samarkand Headline, a DVD Body: The Scandinavian Defence and Bangladesh's Arithmetic1.e4 d5. Those two moves have been written into my notebook more often than a...
Savitha Shri's 7/7 and the Broken Runway of Family Capital in Indian ChessFrom the fourth round at Samarkand I had picked a corner just outside the hal...