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A FIDE President in the Headline, a Najdorf DVD in the Body: Taking the Pulse of a News Item
FIDE News Headline-Body Analysis: The Undeclared Connection Between Timur Turlov and GM Daniel King
Samarkand on the Label, Prague on the Page: ChessBase Magazine #225 and a Quiet Fracture in Chess News
ChessBase Magazine #225: Samarkand in the Title, Prague 2026 Inside — The File Filed in the Wrong Slot
Two Documents in One Steel Cupboard: A Najdorf Update and the Silence Inside a HeadlineFebruary 2026. I spent four consecutive days in the chess hall at Purana Palt...
5.e5! — The Board's Heartbeat, The Structure's Injury: Erigaisi's Italian Test and the Club-Level Risk LedgerHook: The Injury Nobody Sees on Move Five When the fifth move lands on e5,...
A FIDE President in the Headline, a Najdorf DVD in the Body: Taking the Pulse of a News ItemLast week, sitting in my Boston apartment, I read the headline: Timur Turlov...
FIDE News Headline-Body Analysis: The Undeclared Connection Between Timur Turlov and GM Daniel KingBreaking News Analysis: Timur Turlov, FIDE President - Unverified Claims and ...
Turlov's Headline, King's Najdorf: One Document, Two Different StoriesHook: The Two O'Clock File Last week, at a few minutes past two in the mornin...
Wrong Headline, Right Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, Its 27 Miniatures, and the Ledger of an Absent PipelineWrong Headline, Right Board: ChessBase Magazine #225, Its 27 Miniatures, and...
Samarkand in the Headline, Prague on the Page: Auditing ChessBase Magazine #225Round eight in Samarkand, women's section, China leading 15/16 — that was the...
The Notebook Says One Thing, the Tape Another: ChessBase Magazine #225 and a Missing ScoresheetNumber 225. Inside the pages, the names read — Anish Giri, David Navara,...
Samarkand on the Label, Prague on the Page: ChessBase Magazine #225 and a Quiet Fracture in Chess NewsThe Moment the File Opened Half past midnight in a Delhi flat, a laptop scree...
In Samarkand's Shadow, the Light of ChessBase #225: The Report That Was Never FiledThe headline landed on my desk at seven in the morning: "Samarkand R8 (women)...
Samarkand in the Headline, ChessBase Magazine #225 Inside: The File on a Metadata MismatchI stop for one minute before opening a file. The habit is old. The headline...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Samarkand in the Title, Prague 2026 Inside — The File Filed in the Wrong SlotAt two in the morning in a Mymensingh room I opened a file labelled “Samarkan...
A Samarkand Headline, A Prague Folder: The Two Economies of Chess InformationLast month a headline landed on my desk: "Samarkand Round 8 (women): China le...
Sword of Damocles: Sixty Minutes of the Scandinavian Defense, an Uncited Carlsen Game, and the Square Nobody Asks AboutHook In the analysis room at Batumi in September 2026 I wrote one line in my...