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...Carlsen had prepared specially for the event with a training camp in Spain along with England’s David Howell, so was disappointed with his early results, but he did win a 19-move brilliancy of his own....
...“It irritates me that pewter is often overshadowed,” says silversmith David Clarke, whose pieces include candelabras made from pewter mixed with exploded slip-cast ceramics and large-scale centrepieces such...
...Royal is closing in on the grandmaster title and David Howell’s age record of becoming a GM at 16, but the final norm is proving elusive, and he fell short again at Peterborough, as did England’s other...
...The England team has punched above its weight in the last two 180-nation Olympiads, finishing fifth in 2018 and gaining the individual gold medal through David Howell in 2022....
...In this weekend’s semi-final (Saturday and Sunday at midday on major chess websites, with live commentary by England’s David Howell) Carlsen faces the World Cup’s giant-killler and hometown favourite Nijat...
...The BBC has sold music studios in London’s Maida Vale that had been used by The Beatles and David Bowie to a consortium including Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...His rating is second in England only to David Howell’s 2677, and more than 100 points above the vast majority of English grandmasters. In short, the prognosis for a record attempt is favourable....
...She launched the men’s in 2017, with Talking Heads’ David Byrne as a reference, and now sales of the two are equal....
...David Howell, a former prodigy turned online commentator, captured the individual board three gold medal with 7.5/8, an achievement recalling the glory years of the 1980s when England were No2 to the former...
...The record for the youngest UK GM title is still held by David Howell, who achieved it at 16 years one month in January 2007....
...England’s current team of Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones are all over 30, and since the late 1990s no new players have got anywhere near a world top 100 ranking....
...Puzzle 2496 David Howell v Das Debashis, Doha 2016. White to move and win. The three-time British champion and Olympiad gold medallist scores in style. Click here for solution...
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...Puzzle 2460 David Howell v Simon Williams, Bournemouth 2012. White to move and win. First prize was stake, and White’s queen was attacked. Can you find Howell’s decisive sequence?...
...The three-time British champion and popular online commentator David Howell became the first English winner of Titled Tuesday, the weekly 11-round speed competition from chesscom. which is open to all players...
...Hobby players and newcomers should try England’s David Howell and Jovanka Houska on Chess 24, and the same site has excellent coverage for experts from the all-time No1 woman Judit Polgar and from the top...
...David Howell narrowly missed out on a surprise success. The 30-year-old from Sussex won four in a row to share the lead with two rounds left but lost to Firouzja in the penultimate round....
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
...David Howell, who finished well in the top half of the Rapid with 8/13, is the only English entrant....
...England will be represented there by the No1, Michael Adams, and by one of David Howell, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...Guildford will field Michael Adams, David Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones, effectively the England national team....
...David Howell won the £1,200 first prize with an unbeaten 9/11 after the Sussex GM, 30, scored convincing wins against two of his major rivals....
...But then you saw others like Suella Braverman, the home secretary, and Simon Clarke, the levelling up secretary, actually saying, you know what, it wasn’t the policy. It was the timing wrong....
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