Chess
ChessVietnam's 11-Year-Old and the 2,465 Question: Seven Games, One Title, and an Unfinished Ledger2026-10-25She had black in the final round. A gambit line was played, a pawn was won, t...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: Auditing FIDE's Prison Chess Championship2026-10-25Between 13 and 23 May 2026, the first Continental Chess Championship was play...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Missing Metric in Prison Chess Reporting2026-10-25In the third week of May 2026, a tournament concluded with two names. One...
ChessWhere There Is No Scoresheet: The 77-Team Prisoners' Chess Championship and the Dispute Over Its Name2026-10-2513 May 2026. Before the first round began, the one thing that should already...
Vietnam's 11-Year-Old and the 2,465 Question: Seven Games, One Title, and an Unfinished LedgerShe had black in the final round. A gambit line was played, a pawn was won, t...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: Auditing FIDE's Prison Chess ChampionshipBetween 13 and 23 May 2026, the first Continental Chess Championship was play...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Three Sections — But Not a Single Move Logged: A Ledger Audit of the Prison Chess ChampionshipBetween 13 and 23 May 2026, under FIDE's Chess for Freedom initiative, a...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Missing Metric in Prison Chess ReportingIn the third week of May 2026, a tournament concluded with two names. One...
Where There Is No Scoresheet: The 77-Team Prisoners' Chess Championship and the Dispute Over Its Name13 May 2026. Before the first round began, the one thing that should already...
Two Names, One Tournament: The Empty Column Inside Prison Chess's 77-Team NumberThirteen to twenty-three May, 2026. Seventy-seven teams. Five continents. And...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title: The Tiebreak Page Is Missing, the Sales Page Is NotFor fifty years I have started a chess story from the scoresheet, not the...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Title: The Tiebreak Clock, and a Report Where Eighty Percent of the Payload Was Somebody Else's Sales CopyIn St. Louis, the first thing any honest record of that evening should have...