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...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+!...
...Puzzle 2556 Kristina Brankov v Maria Manakova, Serbian League 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...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....
...Around 20 of the Tarazis, a large clan of Palestinian Christians, fled their homes in Gaza City for the relative safety of Saint Porphyrius, which was named after a fifth century bishop who first established...
...Having moved to the UK when she was five (her father later became Bishop of Bradford), she won a place at The Slade aged just 16, and became a mother at 25....
...Here’s (award-winning investigative reporter) Antonia Cundy’s recommendation: “Heidi Blake’s story about Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s daughters and their attempts to escape him is a remarkable...
...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....
...There’s an increased interest in their work,” says Lucy Bishop, specialist and auctioneer at Kerry Taylor Auctions. “We’re getting higher prices than we ever have before....
...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....
...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....
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...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...
...“Auckland Castle’s walled garden is said to have been incredibly productive, both because it’s situated on a geothermal hot spot and because the bishops were sufficiently wealthy to be able to afford the...
...Puzzle 2452 Jonathan Rowson v Simon Knott, British championship 2007. White to move and win....
...Though one might note that Al, apart from being aluminium, has a regrettable habit of always referring to “gangster”, as if no other Al than Capone is well known enough to appear in a crossword....
...But the initiative has caused outrage among other parts of UK society, including Church of England bishops and archbishops, who described it as “immoral”....
...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....
...He was sanctioned by the US in 2015 and barred from entering the country for his financial support of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria....
...Europe is in schism, even brushstrokes are accused of taking sides, and at the abbey San Benedetto al Po, a great cosmopolitan centre of learning south of Mantua, Andrea Asola is in a fix....
...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?...
...The Lambeth Conference, the once every decade meeting of Anglican bishops, begins in London and Canterbury....
...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...
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