Hints and tips:
...Like Le Carré’s Smiley, Merrick is an anti-Bond: physically unprepossessing, apparently unremarkable, but tenacious....
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...relationships with the women in his life, providing new insights into the inner workings of the man who created George Smiley....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Gung-ho Bond and conscience-stricken Smiley alike did their bit for British espionage exceptionalism. However, a gulf divides the real-world records of both men....
...Michael Adams totalled an impressive 8/9 on top board with a performance rating of 2761....
...He is at home on the island; a smiley, wiry firecracker about to turn 61, he speaks for hours with the pep of a 20-year-old, even while fending off bronchitis....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...However, in the boom years of the 1970s to 1990s the very best talents Nigel Short and Michael Adams both preferred to bypass university....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Like John le Carré’s George Smiley, Merrick’s mild exterior conceals a steely determination....
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Pressure has mounted for the return of objects that are seen to be an important part of the identity of countries in Africa and beyond, such as the Ethiopian treasures in the V&A or the Benin Bronzes scattered...
...Photographer’s assistant, Adam Storm. Stylist’s assistant, Jordan Renou Rohel. Production, SW Studio Paris...
...Adam LeBor is the author of ‘Dohany Street’, a Budapest noir crime thriller Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...If you think the political situation in the US now looks terrible, Adam Hochschild is here to remind you that things have previously been much worse....
...“Its smiley team, who are likely to be as – if not more – hungover than you, will nurse you back to health in no time.” Another favourite is Parlour in Kensal Green....
...Michael Adams, now 51, and Nigel Short, now 57, challenged for world titles in their peak years, and both legends were key performers in June when England fought off a strong US challenge to win the world...
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
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