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...Chess: 2287 (a) e3 (b) h1 (c) a8 and mate by 1 Qc8 (d) g7. However White arranges his three pieces, the BK always has a flight square at g8 or h7 Chess: 2286 (a) 1 . . . Kg3! and h5-h4-h3-h2 mate....
...Now he is a frontrunner, who was joint leader with 17-year-old Gukesh D (India) on 4/6, ahead of the favourite Fabiano Caruana (US) and Praggnanandhaa R (India) on 3.5....
...between the trio of Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura (US) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) in their thirties, and the under-21 group of Alireza Firouzja (France) and the Indians Praggnanandhaa R and Gukesh D,...
...In the penultimate round, Sivanandan defeated an IM for the first time when she beat the England women’s coach Lorin D’Costa....
...Though Maestro is the emotional panorama you’d expect from a life fully lived, the tempo is constantly brisk....
...White combines an advance of the g pawn to weaken Black’s king with central pressure up the d file, plus tactical tricks at b5. Lan Yao’s instructive win combines all three themes....
...This jeu d’esprit pays tribute to Antonoff’s upbringing in New Jersey. (Springsteen himself turned up on the last Bleachers album.)...
...The composer Leonard Bernstein had a big nose. Bradley Cooper, who is playing him in the upcoming film Maestro, also has a big nose, but not as big. So, for the film, he’s wearing a fake one....
...He said he’d be back. One wants and hopes to believe him. ★★★★★ sfsymphony.org...
...Pantomime isn’t exactly the first thing you’d expect at a hip-hop festival....
...“I’d been watching the prices of these houses rise from A$950,000 to A$1.1mn in 14 months. I missed out on two and I knew if I didn’t get one soon, I’d be priced out of the market,” she says....
...Leonard Snoeks, the partner of a city planner, turned on the speaker he had strapped behind his seat, the size of an ’80s boombox....
...“It wasn’t the way you’d think, either: it was a woman hitting on a man....
...Rufus and I were wild teenagers, and this was the after-hours diner we’d come to for beer and latkes at 3am....
...She learnt on the job, working with revered choreographers, lyricists and composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins....
...Ding began the Superbet Classic in Bucharest with two quiet draws, an hors d’oeuvre before his round three meeting with Nepomniachtchi....
...It feels like something I’d really wanna live with, if I could. The place that means a lot to me is Paris....
...Within an hour he’d decided to put the Voice up for sale. That wasn’t quite the end. The paper teetered on through several new owners....
...Leonard Hyman Author: ‘America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future’Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...But then, I’d have to kill you . . . ” Only a slight dimple gives her away. Concerts in London and Antwerp in February and in New York in March, elimchan.nl...
...Dudamel might share something of Leonard Bernstein’s theatrical style — as well as Lydia Tár’s admiration for the late, great Claudio Abbado — but little of his enormous ego....
...I also love Leonard Cohen, who wrote the most beautiful words for his songs. He is a true poet....
...“I don’t think you’d ever know that it was him behind Litquidity, even if you met him or he told you point blank....
...I’ve been working for a beer brand, which is the area I’d love to go into. Is it sensible or even feasible to work in start-ups — and especially alcohol start-ups — with MS?...
...It’s renewed my affection for the piece, and I’ve added an excellent recording by Leonard Bernstein to the Inside Politics playlist....
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