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...Puzzle 2570 James Howell v Matthias Wahls, Gausdal 1986. White, a bishop down, to move and win. Click here for solution...
...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....
...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....
...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?...
...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....
...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....
...Carlsen established a fortress defence of rook, bishop and pawn which Nakamura's king could not penetrate....
...Peter Svidler in the online Steinitz Memorial last weekend, so the eight-time Russian champion chose the cautious Kc7 to guard his bishop....
...Later, at move 39, Yip found a winning bishop sacrifice, and although Ju fought on the white position was hopeless....
...Alessandro Farnese, better known as Pope Paul III, had a son, Pier Luigi, who was accused in 1537 of raping the 24-year-old bishop of Fano....
...Thurgau and Ticino, but not to those in the Lucerne municipalities of Hildisrieden and Schüpfheim, who still get a half day but it’s in commemoration of Saint Leodegar of Poitiers the martyred Burgundian Bishop...
...Oxford v Cambridge is the oldest annual chess fixture, first played in 1873 and now hosted at the elegant RAC headquarters at Pall Mall, London....
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