Chess
The Prague 2026 Syllabus: 27 Miniatures, Ten Opening Theses, and the Crack in the Training EcosystemA game at the Prague Chess Festival 2026 ended on move twenty-three, and what...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and Aravindh's Own Annotations: Inside ChessBase Magazine #225On a Hyderabad desk at one in the morning I opened an index: twenty-seven...
Prague's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Magazine That Still Builds a RoomPrague's Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Magazine That Still Builds a Room Ho...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague 2026, 27 Miniatures, and the Training Economy's Failure DatasetTwenty-seven. That is the number ChessBase leads with in the promotional copy...
The 27 Miniatures of Prague 2026 and ChessBase Magazine #225: The File Nobody OpenedHook The first number that caught my eye on the contents page of ChessBase...
Prague Chess Festival 2026: 27 Miniatures, 10 New Repertoire Ideas, and the Document the Scoresheet Never WroteThe tape shows something the scoresheet never bothered to record. Prague Ches...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures, and a Magazine You Have to Read Like a DatabaseI was not in the hall in Prague in March 2026. I was at my desk in Bangalore,...
Seven Boards, 5.5 Points, 2465: An Eleven-Year-Old's IM Paperwork, and a Date That Still Owes an ExplanationSeven boards are entered on the score sheet. Five wins, one draw, one loss —...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: An Update That Sells Maintenance, Not TheoryOn the second row of boards at a Hyderabad club on a Tuesday night, a...
Prison Chess: 77 Teams Prove Scale, Not EvidenceA results page with three columns sat in front of me. Team. Continent. Sectio...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures: When Short Games Tell Big TruthsOne game at the Prague 2026 Chess Festival ended in 19 moves. The loser made ...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Prague's Board, Twenty-Seven Miniatures and the Training Economy of ChessAt 2:40 a.m. in a Mumbai flat the download bar sat at 94 per cent. On the des...
An Eleven-Year-Old IM: Solid at the Board, Tangled in the DatesOn an October evening an eleven-year-old sat at board one with the black...
ChessBase Magazine #225: Twenty-Seven Miniatures, Four Annotators and the Slow Bet of Chess MediaTwenty-seven. That is the number that snags first in ChessBase's September...
Sixty Minutes, Five Najdorf Clusters, and a Headline From Another BoardThere is a page in my workbook with two columns. The left column is headed...
