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...There are now separate world championships for classical, rapid and blitz, while the St Louis-organised Grand Tour has a mixture of events, with classical and the start and finish but speed events in the...
...St Louis is also the organisational centre for the Grand Chess Tour, a mix of classical, rapid and blitz tournaments staged mostly in Europe but returning to Missouri for its final event, the traditional...
...My scholastic summer starts in June, when I wander into the lobby of a 1,600-room Hilton in Dallas. This Hilton has a vibe....
...US chess strategy in recent years, masterminded by FT reader Rex Sinquefield and the globally renowned St Louis chess club, has been to encourage established star players to transfer to the US and so build...
...Accusations of cheating continue to send aftershocks through the world of chess, after champion Magnus Carlsen ended a 53-game winning streak by losing to a US teenager at a tournament in St Louis....
...Dybvig of Washington University in St Louis for their work on the role of banks in the economy and financial crises. 3....
...Next up, in October, are the US championship in St Louis and the British championship at Hull....
...and rooms were let out to a chess club, a Ladies’ Bible Society, and a Literary and Scientific Society....
...Carlsen’s two latest online tournaments have been the $150,000 Champions Showdown and the $250,000 St Louis Rapid/Blitz, backed by FT reader Rex Sinquefield....
...After nine of the 11 rounds in the $325,000 Sinquefield Cup at St Louis, the world champion Magnus Carlsen had drawn every game and lamented his inability to create positions with winning potential....
...Klitschko is fond of esoteric statements like this and projects the air of a deep thinker — hence our game of chess. Not that he has much to prove....
...Louis Federal Reserve, there is a real chance consumer dollars start flowing through the tills and veins of a retail sector long assumed to be on its deathbed....
...Among his many speeches, he delivered the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture in Washington DC, the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, the Bagehot speech at the Economist...
...But he quit within a year of the takeover, tired of the scoldings for “a five o’clock shadow, an off-center necktie.” He clearly had a big leg-up in life....
...Gregory was born in 1932 in St Louis, Missouri, one of six children in a family that was, as he put it, “not poor, just broke”....
...Born in St Louis on October 18 1926, he spent some of his teens in prison for robbery but by the early 1950s was working as a hairdresser by day and playing guitar in clubs in the evening....
...Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive biography of TS Eliot’s early years anatomises the poet’s early...
...Stan Kroenke, who counts the St Louis Rams American football team and the Denver Nuggets basketball team among his sport assets, which include a controlling stake in the Arsenal football club....
...… Sport by Neil O’Sullivan O, Louis: In search of Louis van Gaal, by Hugo Borst, Yellow Jersey, RRP£9.99 Relations between the British press and Manchester United’s feted but fiery Dutch manager have...
...It’s the 40th anniversary of Virgin Records and I’ve been dipping into the back catalogue recently – everything from Culture Club to new acts like Bastille. What will you be eating?...
...then the Arab spring, Qatar’s winning bid to host the 2022 World Cup, and Gulf takeovers of western clubs have provided excellent new material....
...When I met him in a downtown St Louis diner, he came across as a cheerful, friendly guy, not someone living under a kind of persecution....
...Highlights from outside Italy are two versions of “The Supper at Emmaus” (from the National Gallery in London and the Brera in Milan), “The Lute Player” (from the Hermitage in St Petersburg), “The Musicians...
..., evangelical Anglican churches and university Christian clubs....
...of art history at the Hunter College and Graduate Center of New York's City University, who co-organised the show with Emily D....
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