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Not the Houdini Act but the Ledger: Inside India's Fragile Gold Defence at Samarkand
Gukesh's Houdini Act: The Fragile Reality Behind India's Gold Medal Dreams
Wrong Label, Honest Body: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026 and the Load Accounting of Chess
A Samarkand Round 8 Headline and a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: An Article With a Result in the Title and a Product in the Body
Not the Houdini Act but the Ledger: Inside India's Fragile Gold Defence at SamarkandIt was 2:12 a.m. on my clock in Dublin. On the table, a sheet of paper, a...
Gukesh's Houdini Act: The Fragile Reality Behind India's Gold Medal DreamsIn Samarkand's relentless air, something remarkable was unfolding in Round 9....
Wrong Label, Honest Body: ChessBase Magazine #225, Prague 2026 and the Load Accounting of ChessThe title said Samarkand. Round eight, women's section, China leading 15/16. ...
A Samarkand Round 8 Headline and a 60-Minute Scandinavian Course: An Article With a Result in the Title and a Product in the BodyIt was nearly two in the morning in a Dublin flat, and the habit held: scroll...
Sixty Minutes of Scandinavian: The Ledger Behind the Carlsen ClaimMarch 17, 2026, 11:40 p.m. In a Bangalore flat, a course page sits open on th...
A Samarkand Headline, A Scandinavian Course Body: How One Mislabelled File Breaks Chess's Information Chain1.e4 d5 — I have lost count of how many times I wrote that notation while...