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Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and the Real Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225
A 2465 Performance Rating and a Mismatched Date: Auditing the IM Claim of an 11-Year-Old
Eleven Years, Seven Months, a 2,465 Performance Rating — and a Calendar That Has Not Closed
Twenty-Seven Short Games and a Long Ledger: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Prague 2026
Twenty-Seven Short Games and a Long Ledger: ChessBase Magazine #225 and Prague 2026I opened the booklet at my own table in New York and the first page stopped m...
Sixty Minutes, Five Line Clusters, and the Najdorf Repair Job: A Ledger Audit of a FritzTrainer UpdateThe download timer stopped at 60:00. I set a stopwatch alongside it and built...
Prague 2026's 27 Miniatures and the Real Ledger of ChessBase Magazine #225One line in the contents of ChessBase Magazine #225 buries everything else: “...
27 Miniatures, One Write-Down: Auditing the Opening Leaks Inside ChessBase Magazine #225's Prague 2026 FileOne line in the contents of ChessBase Magazine #225 outranks everything else ...
One Round on 23 October, a 2,465 Performance Rating — and the Baseline That Still Needs CheckingOn 23 October, the player sitting at board one with the black pieces was list...
A 2465 Performance Rating and a Mismatched Date: Auditing the IM Claim of an 11-Year-OldThere is a sheet of seven games from board one. Five wins, one draw, one loss...
Eleven Years, Seven Months, a 2,465 Performance Rating — and a Calendar That Has Not ClosedSeven rounds on board one: five wins, one draw, one loss. Score 5.5/7....
Najdorf in the Headline, Elephant Gambit in the Body: A Sixty-Minute Course and Zero Sample Across Sixteen ClaimsIn the Salt Lake press box in Kolkata, I picked up a habit I have not been ab...