Chess
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Clause, Caruana's Ledger, and a Result Buried Inside an Advertisement
A NATO Headline, a Najdorf Body: Five Lines in Sixty Minutes and a Metadata Failure
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update, and a Headline With No Record Behind It
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: What Is the Prisoners' Chess Championship Scoreboard Actually Measuring?
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: What Is the Prisoners' Chess Championship Scoreboard Actually Measuring?The first number in the event's official communication sits at the top: 77...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Clause, Caruana's Ledger, and a Result Buried Inside an AdvertisementThe US Championship tiebreak rule reads as dull as it sounds thrilling on...
European Club Cup: 108 Teams in Budva, One Averaging 2715 — and a Headline Pointing at BarcelonaI opened the European Club Cup entry list again on Monday morning, and the...
Carlsen's AI Line Is Noise; His Real Bet in Budapest Is the Five-Hour GameFrom 10 to 21 November, Budapest hosts twelve days of chess. Twenty-four...
European Club Cup: Novy Bor in the Headline, the Scotch in the Body — and the Missing ColumnHook Last week I sat down to update my European Club Cup workbook. The report...
A Headline About a Match, a Body About a DVD: Auditing the Scandinavian DefenseThis week an item landed on my desk. The headline read: “Rachel Li stunningly...
A NATO Headline, a Najdorf Body: Five Lines in Sixty Minutes and a Metadata FailureThe first number in the file was sixty. Sixty minutes, English, digital...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update, and a Headline With No Record Behind ItEvery entry in my logbook begins with a date. Date first, then the event, the...