Chess
Eleven years, seven months, sixteen days: Vietnam's prodigy, a 2465 performance, and a record the calendar builds
Prisoners' Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Question the Medal Table Never Asks
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: A 2465 Performance and the Unsettled Ledger of an IM Title
77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Scoresheet That Was Never Published
Eleven years, seven months, sixteen days: Vietnam's prodigy, a 2465 performance, and a record the calendar buildsStart with the final-round board. Black pieces, a gambit line, a pawn up, WIM...
Sixty Minutes, Five Clusters: The Najdorf Update and the Economics of MaintenanceIt is an April morning in Islamabad, and only one thing is open on the desk —...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: Daniel King's Update, and a Review With No DateSixty minutes. Five lines. And one opening whose theoretical load grows every...
Prisoners' Chess Championship: 77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Question the Medal Table Never Asks13 May 2026. At eleven in the morning a note landed on my desk — eleven days,...
An Eleven-Year-Old on Board One: A Reported International Master Norm, a 2,465 Performance Rating, and the Three Blank Boxes on the ScoresheetThe final-round scoresheet is on my desk. Board one. Black pieces. Five wins,...
Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters: What a Najdorf Repertoire Update Can and Cannot DeliverI keep a sheet that records what White actually plays against the Najdorf. So...
The Prison Chess Ledger: 77 Teams, Five Continents and the Column Nobody FiledThe entry sheet for the first Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: A 2465 Performance and the Unsettled Ledger of an IM TitleI picked up the scoresheet before I looked at the board that October evening....
77 Teams, Five Continents, and the Scoresheet That Was Never PublishedThe report on the First Continental Chess Championships for Prisoners, played...
A 2,465 Performance Rating and a Closed File: Auditing an 11-Year-Old's IM ClaimHook: A score sheet, and a missing PGN October 23. Board one. Black pieces. A...