For the London Review of Books, I have covered the two most recent matches for the World Championship as well as Magnus Carlsen’s 2020 attempts to launch an online grand prix competition.
For Radical Philosophy, I deciphered some photos of a chess game played between Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin.
A pdf is here: https://www.radicalphilosophyarchive.com/issue-files/rp161_extras.pdf
2022 FIDE Chess Olympiad
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/august/carlsen-s-next-moves
2018 Match: Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/november/sporting-facts
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/november/carlsen-s-fortress
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/november/endgame
2021 Match: Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/november/dr-soberstone-i-presume
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/december/carlsen-triumphs-again
2020 Magnus Carlsen Invitational