Hints and tips:
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Michael Adams totalled an impressive 8/9 on top board with a performance rating of 2761....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...However, in the boom years of the 1970s to 1990s the very best talents Nigel Short and Michael Adams both preferred to bypass university....
...WeWork has filed for bankruptcy, a humbling fall for the once high-flying desk-renting start-up co-founded by Adam Neumann and backed by billions of dollars from Japan’s SoftBank....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J Bradford DeLong, Basic Books £30/$35, 624 pages Adam Tooze teaches history at Columbia University....
...UK motor insurer Direct Line has poached Adam Winslow, a senior executive at rival Aviva, to be its new CEO....
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Pressure has mounted for the return of objects that are seen to be an important part of the identity of countries in Africa and beyond, such as the Ethiopian treasures in the V&A or the Benin Bronzes scattered...
...Photographer’s assistant, Adam Storm. Stylist’s assistant, Jordan Renou Rohel. Production, SW Studio Paris...
...If you think the political situation in the US now looks terrible, Adam Hochschild is here to remind you that things have previously been much worse....
...Michael Adams, now 51, and Nigel Short, now 57, challenged for world titles in their peak years, and both legends were key performers in June when England fought off a strong US challenge to win the world...
...They reported the priciest sale of the week, Mark Bradford’s “Shall Rest in Honor There” (2023) for $3.5mn, while Thaddaeus Ropac brought a recent Georg Baselitz painting called “In Hollywood” (2022), which...
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
...The Michael Adams-led team will hope for a top-six finish, but realistically will do well to maintain their seeding. Puzzle 2477 Pavel Anisimov v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Krasnoyarsk 2007....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Several opposition members joined CWU picket lines across the UK on Monday to talk to BT workers, including Nandy in Wigan, Imran Hussain in Bradford, employment rights shadow minister Justin Madders in...
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