Chess
ChessBase Magazine #225: Twenty-Seven Prague Miniatures and the Unaudited Long-Form RecordOne number in the contents page stops the eye: twenty-seven. Twenty-seven...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, Sixteen Days: The Ledger of an IM ClaimThe most honest sound in any chess hall is the clock. When an eleven-year-old...
An 11-Year-Old IM: The 2,465 Is Real, the Seven-Round Norm Is NotFinal round, board one, black pieces. The report does not give the moves; it...
27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles and a Rented Room: A Score-Sheet Audit of ChessBase Magazine #225In a rented room in Kodambakkam, with one tube light and a PDF booklet open o...
Scandinavian Defense in 60 Minutes: Auditing the Carlsen Halo and a Headline-Body MismatchThe headline carried a name: Rachel Li, and a claim that she had stunningly w...
A 'Rachel Li' Headline, an Andrew Martin Ad: Auditing a Metadata MismatchTwo documents arrived together. The first was a headline: “Rachel Li stunning...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title, and the Video Course Sold Behind the HeadlineIt was eleven at night and the phone was at twenty percent. A headline stoppe...