Chess
The Silence of Eleven Years: An International Master Claim Still Awaiting Verification
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks, Wins Fourth US Chess Championship
A Fourth Title, An Empty Page: Wesley So's Tiebreak Win and the Mispricing of Chess
Sixty Minutes of Gambit: The Elephant Defence, a Najdorf Label, and the Open Crack in Chess's Content Market
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents and a Missing Scoresheet: The Arithmetic of FIDE's Prison Chess Championship
A 'Rachel Li' Headline, a Scandinavian Body: Auditing a Chess Newsroom's Metadata Failure
The Silence of Eleven Years: An International Master Claim Still Awaiting VerificationThat final-round silence at the board still surrounds me. A girl playing with...
Seventy-Seven Teams, Five Continents and a Missing Scoresheet: The Arithmetic of FIDE's Prison Chess ChampionshipHook On that Singapore night my notebook had two columns. The first was heade...
A 'Rachel Li' Headline, a Scandinavian Body: Auditing a Chess Newsroom's Metadata FailureA chess item landed on the desk. The headline read: 'Rachel Li stunningly win...
Eleven Teams, One Match Point: The Gap Between the Table and the Ledger at the European Club Cup 2026On the morning of Tuesday, 20 October 2026, the open-section standings of the...
Wesley So Beats Fabiano Caruana in Tiebreaks, Wins Fourth US Chess ChampionshipOne Empty Chair, Two Clocks Something small happened in the Saint Louis club...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title — and the Video Course Being Sold Behind the HeadlineThe title was settled in a tiebreak. In the club hall in St. Louis, Wesley So...
A Fourth Title, An Empty Page: Wesley So's Tiebreak Win and the Mispricing of ChessThe last tiebreak game ended and Wesley So had his fourth US title. The...
Sixty Minutes of Gambit: The Elephant Defence, a Najdorf Label, and the Open Crack in Chess's Content MarketDecember 2026, Riyadh. I set the 3 a.m. alarm myself — eighteen years old,...
European Club Cup, Budva: A 2715 Average Doesn't Decide the Title — Boards 4 to 6 WillTwenty-five teams stood on 2/2 in Budva after two rounds. To a viewer watchin...
One Headline, Two Articles: The 'Rachel Li' Claim and a 60-Minute Scandinavian Defense ListingI opened the file expecting a national title story. The headline was...