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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+!...
...Tony Blair, then prime minister, vowed to “do everything we possibly can to bring the killers to justice”. The estate was razed not long afterwards, but solving the crime proved painful....
...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....
...Cruddas identifies Blair’s first term and the 1945 government as exemplars....
...British readers may remember that in 2003, then-prime minister Tony Blair was prevented from talking about his faith by spin-doctor Alastair Campbell, who reminded him that: “We don’t do God.”...
...Paehtz had overlooked that the black queen at a4 guarded e8, so that White just lost her bishop....
...However, 26 members are Church of England archbishops and bishops, in what amounts to an unusual mix of church and state....
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Comprising some 2,700 homes, it achieved some notoriety as an emblem of urban deprivation in the media 20 years later when Tony Blair chose to give his first speech there as prime minister — its monolith...
...Nunn lost in round eight to Jens Kristiansen, but the Dane blundered to defeat in the final round in a drawn bishop ending....
...But once you've decided... ...during the Blair era, but now......
...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...
...George Parker Well, the piece really sort of focused on this remarkable rearguard action fought by the hereditary peers during the Blair government where they basically persuaded Tony Blair to let 92 of...
...Puzzle 2452 Jonathan Rowson v Simon Knott, British championship 2007. White to move and win....
...He was made dean of Johannesburg in 1975, bishop of Lesotho the following year and general secretary of the South African Council of Churches from 1978 to 1985....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...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....
...Tony Blair, the Labour prime minister, had paid fulsome tribute to the "people's princess". I feel like everyone else in this country today. Utterly devastated....
...socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty in a sex abuse trial Wednesday Belgium, the Ommegang festival, including a pageant re-enacting the historical entry of Charles V,...
...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?...
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
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