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...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Generously sized, attitude-laden overcoats were a staple style influence in my teenage years, thanks to characters such as Neo and Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Denzel Washington in American Gangster and Michael...
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...V. About two dozen people attended the final hearing in Ganieva’s civil action against Black, in a harshly lit room inside an Italianate office building in Tribeca. It was May 2023....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...the Black figure in contemporary art — and the western canon — featuring artists from across the African diaspora including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid and Kerry James Marshall....
...“There are no domestic equity investors here — everything else is a symptom,” says Michael Tory, founder of advisory firm Ondra Partners....
...Puzzle 2513 Michael Coenen v Philipp Lamby, Bundesliga 2022. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...buy from London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery....
...I’ve read Michael Pollan’s book but I’m leaning more towards this one....
...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...
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Errol Michael Henry invites us to the Air-Edel studios in London to show us how a song gets made. Errol is one of the few black sound designers in the UK....
...In Louisiana, Dana Foster, a partner at White & Case, saw an opportunity “take concrete actions” to focus his firm’s pro bono efforts on racial injustice in the summer of 2020....
...Her enveloping wool coats and handsome V-neck jumpers, tucked into full skirts, had a cosiness and casualness that made them appealing for the office, something Wickstead said her customers are increasingly...
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...flowers; weaving thick harness straps through a shrunken black suit....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...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....
...Past fundraisers include a T-shirt illustrated by Pol Anglada and an NFT version of the designer’s viral patchwork cardigan worn by Harry Styles. akt.org.uk; jwanderson.com K is for Michael KorsEach year...
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