Chess
77 Teams, Five Continents: The Institutional Read on the Prisoners' Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026, the brief on my desk had dates, a count of 77...
Continental Chess Championship for Prisoners: The Scale of 77 Teams, and the Data That Was Never ReleasedSeventy-Seven Teams Arrived. Not One Move Did. When the details of the first...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Count Arrived, the Denominator Didn'tOne line in the contents list of ChessBase Magazine #225 sits apart from the...
A 2,465 Performance Rating on Seven Games: The Unglamorous Arithmetic Behind an Eleven-Year-Old's IM NormSeven games. Five wins, one draw, one loss. 5.5/7 on board one and a...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks to Win Fourth US Chess Championship: A Record AuditMy first question about any chess story is always the same: where is the...
European Club Cup: Eleven Teams Level, and the Board Where the Biggest Cheque Decides the LeastHook: The costliest name on the sheet, and eleven equal names on the table...
