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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Realistically, though, there are now fewer world class prospects than in the golden era of the 1970s, when the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match sparked the interest of teenagers at grammar and public...
...He knew most people there, but for the first time he could speak to them as Boris Collardi, rather than Boris Collardi, the banker....
...Puzzle 2552 Keres v Laszlo Szabo, Budapest 1955. White to move and win. How did Keres defeat the top Hungarian player of his time? Click here for solution...
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...Boris Hamzeian is an architectural historian at the Centre Pompidou, the celebrated modern art museum on the western edge of Le Marais....
...(WSJ) — Dominic Cummings unloads on Boris and Carrie Johnson. (Unherd) — The Bank of England attempts to predict financial crises with a neural net....
...Boris Johnson has threatened to privatise public bodies including the Passport Office and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency unless they sort out their major backlogs, he told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday...
...A third round of Carlsen v Niemann is possible this weekend....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...Our rivals who traded on being close to Boris will be desperate for some red cred so we need to move fast. There’s business for us in this too if people think we’ve got a good channel into Starmer....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Think Donald Trump’s border wall, or Boris Johnson’s threats to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. Want to stay in touch? We love hearing from you....
...Puzzle 2477 Pavel Anisimov v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Krasnoyarsk 2007. Black, the future double world title challenger, to move and force mate. Click here for solution...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...Only Vasily Smyslov and Boris Spassky have previously won two Candidates in a row. Now, though, chess faces the prospect of a schism....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...In the dying days of Boris Johnson’s government, he even held one of the great offices of state, serving as chancellor of the exchequer for two months....
...As chancellor under Boris Johnson, Sunak voiced support for the fintech sector — notably crypto....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...Later he was a trainer and coach who helped Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov and even Garry Kasparov to playing successes....
...The event was attended by Boris Johnson for around 30 minutes and was planned in advance, with staff invited to the event via an email from Reynolds....
...No female leader would get away with Boris Johnson’s brand of slept-in-his-clothes disarray....
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