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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, have been younger Candidates, and both were also-rans....
...In 2024, England is the No1 nation in senior chess for over-50s and over-65s, with several gold and silver medals in recent world team championships, plus individual world titles for John Nunn and Michael...
...The magnitude of his achievement was not lost on Niemann, who posted a message on X comparing himself to Bobby Fischer (who also won at Zagreb, in 1970) and quoting Friedrich Nietzsche....
...The ageing survivors of the 1970s Bobby Fischer boom learnt their skills in giant weekend congresses and thriving chess clubs....
...The game winner was Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov, whose win from a lost position at the 2022 Chennai Olympiad had already taken the gold medals there away from India....
...Here, young Bobby Child, a wannabe dancer trapped in the body of a New York banker, is dispatched to foreclose on a tiny theatre in a deadbeat former gold-rush town....
...But as Trump has done with the 91 criminal charges he is facing across state and federal jurisdictions this year, he will try to turn the latest legal threat into political gold....
...Atkins was third at Hanover 1902 in a tournament where most of the international greats took part, while Penrose beat the world champion Mikhail Tal and had a winning position against Bobby Fischer at Leipzig...
...Love, Janessa easily equals Sweet Bobby in its queasily addictive tale of greed and duplicity....
...He joined America’s most famous political dynasty in 1986 when he married Shriver, the niece of John, Bobby and Teddy Kennedy, with whom he had four children....
...The boy and girl seven-year-olds, Kushal Jakhria and Bodhana Sivanandan, who won gold medals in the world age group championships in Greece and have performed strongly in adult competitions, will also be...
...But he started out as a bobby on the beat, dealing with the sort of problems that are typical of any big city....
...Henry’s troop-rallying speech “Once more unto the breach” is delivered partly as a pep-talk to himself as he crouches against the mottled old gold panels of Moi Tran’s set....
...choreography: “I Got Rhythm”, the most irresistible of its many beloved songs, goes off like a firecracker, with the locals forming an impromptu skiffle band, playing spades and watering cans and tap-dancing on gold-panning...
...In normal circumstances the US would be gold medal favourites, with Russia and China the likely challengers....
...Warne also incarnated an aspect of the Australian national spirit: he was a “larrikin”, a misbehaving young man with a heart of gold....
...Debut challengers can freeze at the start, as in Tigran Petrosian’s collapse in game one against Mikhail Botvinnik in 1963, and Bobby Fischer’s capture of Boris Spassky’s poisoned pawn in 1972, while Fabiano...
...To war-torn London first, where the young Earl of Harpenden (Bobby) is having a stressful day....
...Only two previous world champions did not defend their titles: Alexander Alekhine, because he died, and Bobby Fischer, who disappeared from public life....
...Gold adorns the furniture, crystal adorns the chandeliers and a photograph of Donald Trump in a gilded frame adorns the mantelpiece....
...Activision Blizzard shareholders narrowly backed CEO Bobby Kotick’s $155m pay package following a delayed vote....
...The Swede’s life-long research suggests that behind every young prodigy, be it Beethoven or Bobby Fischer, there are many unseen years in which they honed their skills....
...The cheque was helpful, but the real gold for founder Lex Greensill was Solo himself. Having recently left as chief executive of Swiss asset manager GAM, Solo became an adviser to the start-up....
...On July 30 1966 at Wembley, a yellow-clad 40-year-old Queen Elizabeth hands England’s captain Bobby Moore the little gold Jules Rimet trophy. She, he and it look gorgeous in the London sunshine....
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