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ChessOne Headline, Two Failures: Auditing the Chess 'News' Item That Misnamed the FIDE President and Sold FRITZ 202026-10-24It was 2:14 a.m. in Chicago. Row 47 of my verification tracker held a headlin...
ChessA 2465 Performance, a 5.5/7 Score and One Unverified Date: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM Claim2026-10-25On board one in the final round of 23 October, an 11-year-old playing black...
ChessThe Prague Ledger: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Magazine Still Selling Paper2026-10-25The Prague download folder opens and the first screen holds on a single numbe...
Chess77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Ledger Nobody Asked For at the First Continental Prison Chess Championship2026-10-25On the morning of 13 May 2026 there was no scoreboard on my desk. There was a...
A 2465 Performance, a 5.5/7 Score and One Unverified Date: Auditing the 11-Year-Old IM ClaimOn board one in the final round of 23 October, an 11-year-old playing black...
The Prague Ledger: 27 Miniatures, 10 Opening Articles, and a Magazine Still Selling PaperThe Prague download folder opens and the first screen holds on a single numbe...
77 Teams, Five Continents, Zero PGNs: The Ledger Nobody Asked For at the First Continental Prison Chess ChampionshipOn the morning of 13 May 2026 there was no scoreboard on my desk. There was a...
Sixty Minutes of Najdorf: Daniel King's Update Pack Is a Repair Job, Not New TheoryAt 1 a.m. in a flat in Ahmedabad, the laptop screen was on and the download b...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures Are Measuring the Shelf Life of Chess PreparationThere are twenty-seven miniatures in the ‘Special’ section of ChessBase...
77 Teams, Five Continents and a Silence: The First Continental Chess Championship Inside Prison WallsThe news landed on my desk while I was watching a rapid chess match in a...
The Headline Says Rachel Li; the Body Sells a Scandinavian Defense Video: Where the Fact Gets Stuck in Chess Media's PipelineOne document, two articles. The headline reads: "Rachel Li stunningly wins US...
Wesley So's Fourth US Title and the Video Course Under the Headline: 11% Evidence, 100% ClaimThree pieces of information were stuffed into the headline — Wesley So, Fabia...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: A Tiebreak Win Over Caruana, and the Course Being Sold Inside the StorySt. Louis, Maryland Avenue The doors of the tournament hall close and only...
Wesley So's Fourth US Chess Championship: The Arithmetic of Beating Caruana in a TiebreakThe material that reached me contained nine information points. One — the...
One Headline, Two Failures: Auditing the Chess 'News' Item That Misnamed the FIDE President and Sold FRITZ 20It was 2:14 a.m. in Chicago. Row 47 of my verification tracker held a headlin...