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...Puzzle 2556 Kristina Brankov v Maria Manakova, Serbian League 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...Paehtz had overlooked that the black queen at a4 guarded e8, so that White just lost her bishop....
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Nunn lost in round eight to Jens Kristiansen, but the Dane blundered to defeat in the final round in a drawn bishop ending....
...“Fathers in loco” have included Anglican bishop and polar explorer Launcelot Fleming, who mentored him after his father’s death, Wolfensohn and the now 92-year-old Soros, whom he has known for 35 years....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...Puzzle 2495 Lucas van Foreest v Evgeny Bareev, Wijk aan Zee 2019. White to move and win. White is material up, while Black seems to have counterplay with queen and rook....
...adds Lucy Bishop, specialist and auctioneer at Kerry Taylor Auctions....
...As well as VIP dignitaries, attendees will include recipients of British awards for valour such as the Victoria Cross and George Cross, alongside senior MPs and peers, bishops and representatives of charities...
...Puzzle 2452 Jonathan Rowson v Simon Knott, British championship 2007. White to move and win....
...Harington’s Henry asks, rather testily, of the bishop who has just subjected him — and all of us — to a tortuous PowerPoint on French lines of succession....
...Puzzle 2443 Roland Scott v Joseph Blake, Edinburgh 1920. White (to play) is queen for bishop up, but can you find his only winning move?...
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...Another sensuous, fluid new painting, “Wobbly V with Bunches”, pink blossom encrusted on misty green, reminded me of late Cy Twombly, and of Francesco Clemente’s comment that in old age Twombly “sailed away...
...Puzzle 2423 Wei Yi v Tigran L Petrosian, China v Armenia, Pro Chess League 2020. Find White’s surprise winning move. Click here for solution...
...(Spoiler: 1...Qb1+ 2 Qf1 Rh1+ doesn’t work because White can take the h1 rook with the e4 bishop). Click here for solution...
...His plan was novel and obscure, an early queen switch to a3 via f3 and then a bishop offer at g5 which could not be taken....
...His semi-abstract drawings are now considered works of art in their own right and have been exhibited in London’s V&A Museum....
...We should always take cabin comfort promises with a pinch of salt — remember the gyms and bowling alleys we were promised in the Airbus A380?...
...Clue: bishop against rook pawn is normally a draw when the bishop does not control the pawn's queening square. Click here for solution...
...“Cast your mind back to 1215,” he says wistfully, recalling it was the hereditary peers and bishops who forced King John to make his Magna Carta concessions at Runnymede....
...V. A month in, the occupation in Zuccotti Park — or Liberty Plaza — was becoming more permanent. Problems were emerging too....
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