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Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Booklet by Post: What Prague 2026 Actually Filed
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures and the Unmasking of a 'System' — The Real Prague Festival Story Isn't on the Scoreboard
An IM at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance, Seven Rounds, and a Ledger
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: What a Repertoire Update Costs, and When It Expires
Twenty-Seven Miniatures and a Booklet by Post: What Prague 2026 Actually FiledA booklet arrived in Pune in the last week of February. Fifty-odd pages on...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: The Preparation Is Done in a Hotel Room, Not at the BoardThe game ended on move 23. There was no applause in the hall — only the click...
11-Year-Old Reports IM Norm With a 2,465 Performance Rating; the Calendar Is the Only Thing Still UnverifiedOn 23 October, in the final round, with the black pieces, an 11-year-old beat...
The Prague 2026 Ledger: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Files and the Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225At eleven at night I opened the file and skipped the editorial page. Seventee...
ChessBase Magazine #225: 27 Miniatures and the Unmasking of a 'System' — The Real Prague Festival Story Isn't on the ScoreboardTwenty-seven miniatures in Prague. Twenty-seven. The number appears on the...
An IM Claim at 11 Years 7 Months: 5.5/7, a 2465 Performance Rating, and Three Questions the Source Leaves OpenOn 23 October, in the final round, she had the black pieces on board one,...
Sixty Minutes, Five Lines, One Update: The Real Ledger of Najdorf MaintenanceIt is 1:40 in the morning in a one-bedroom flat in Malad, Mumbai. The laptop...
Chess Behind the Walls: FIDE's First Continental Championships for Prisoners, 77 Teams and Five ContinentsThe morning of 13 May 2026 did not look like the morning of a chess tournamen...
An IM at Eleven: A 2,465 Performance, Seven Rounds, and a Ledger23 October. Final round. Board one. Black. A gambit line whose name the repor...
Sixty Minutes for the Najdorf: What a Repertoire Update Costs, and When It ExpiresSixty minutes. Five line clusters. Roughly eleven minutes per cluster. A...
Seven Games, a 2465 Performance and 11 Years Old: The Part of Vietnam's IM Story the Scoreboard Won't ExplainFinal round. Board one. Black pieces. A gambit line whose name appears nowher...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections: Geometry, Data and the Real Test at the First Intercontinental Chess Championship for PrisonersBefore the first session on May 13, 2026, my notebook carried a single line:...
Not Najdorf, Elephant Gambit: Where Headlines Outran the MovesThere's a peculiar situation unfolding in the chess world. A new course...