Chess
The Price of the Fifth Board: Savitha Shri's Seven Wins and a Family's Exhausted Savings
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve-Board Hot Streak and One Family's Three-Year Runway
1.e4 d5: A 60-Minute 'Weapon', One Uncited Game, and the Open Ledger of the Chess Economy
Seven Wins, One Runway, Three Years: Whose Story Is Savitha Shri's Samarkand Tale Really?
Savitha Shri and Board Five: Seven Wins, One Empty Chair, and a Father's Three-Year Savings
1.e4 d5: A 60-Minute 'Weapon', One Uncited Game, and the Open Ledger of the Chess EconomyLast week I stopped halfway through an advertisement for a chess course. The...
The Price of the Fifth Board: Savitha Shri's Seven Wins and a Family's Exhausted SavingsThe clock in the Samarkand hall had crossed five hours. On India's board four...
Seven Wins, One Runway, Three Years: Whose Story Is Savitha Shri's Samarkand Tale Really?The Thursday round in Samarkand took almost five hours to finish. Place the t...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve-Board Hot Streak and One Family's Three-Year Runway“Seven games, seven wins, no draws.” Those three numbers are the load-bearing...
Savitha Shri and Board Five: Seven Wins, One Empty Chair, and a Father's Three-Year SavingsOn the score sheet of the 2026 Samarkand Olympiad, board five is the line...
A Samarkand Headline With a 1.e4 d5 Body: Anatomy of a Feed ErrorSamarkand R8 (open) — the headline belongs to a tournament. Germany stunned...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: A Chess Item Whose Ledger Does Not BalanceGermany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body The headline is crisp: at...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Gap Between Headline and Content in the Chess Training Market"Chess is something magic" — the headline promises magic; scroll down and you...
The Price of the Fifth Board: Savitha Shri's Seven Wins and a Family's Exhausted SavingsThe clock in the Samarkand hall had crossed five hours. On India's board four...
Seven Wins, One Runway, Three Years: Whose Story Is Savitha Shri's Samarkand Tale Really?The Thursday round in Samarkand took almost five hours to finish. Place the t...
Savitha Shri's 7/7: A Reserve-Board Hot Streak and One Family's Three-Year Runway“Seven games, seven wins, no draws.” Those three numbers are the load-bearing...
Savitha Shri and Board Five: Seven Wins, One Empty Chair, and a Father's Three-Year SavingsOn the score sheet of the 2026 Samarkand Olympiad, board five is the line...
A Samarkand Headline With a 1.e4 d5 Body: Anatomy of a Feed ErrorSamarkand R8 (open) — the headline belongs to a tournament. Germany stunned...
Germany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body: A Chess Item Whose Ledger Does Not BalanceGermany in the Headline, Scandinavian in the Body The headline is crisp: at...
Six Videos, Seven Openings: The Gap Between Headline and Content in the Chess Training Market"Chess is something magic" — the headline promises magic; scroll down and you...