Hints and tips:
...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...The final on Thursday and Friday (noon GMT start) will be Carlsen v Caruana, World No 1 v No 2 and a repeat of the 2018 classical world championship match....
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...Puzzle 2542 White mates in three moves (by Fritz Giegold). There is just a single line of play, and White has a crushing material lead, yet this puzzle baffles many solvers. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2519 White mates in three moves at latest, against any black defence (by Fritz Giegold, 1970)....
...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+!...
.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...that Continental was “one of the most important suppliers” to the Third Reich, manufacturing car and aircraft tyres, as well as track pads for tanks, hoses, hydraulic brakes and precision instruments for V-...
...The pairings are Ding Liren (China) v Yu Yangyi (China) and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) v Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan)....
...Technology is also helping the people on the front line of the battle to protect wildlife: the 300,000-400,000 rangers and wardens who work in the world’s parks and reserves, according to the International...
...Carlsen v Caruana on Saturday and Mamedyarov v Carlsen on Sunday are viewable free and live online, starting 7pm BST. 2278 White mates in three moves (by Fritz Giegold, 1950)....
...The individual Carlsen v Caruana game was tense, since defeat for the Norwegian, 27, would have cost him the No1 ranking he has held since 2011....
...Puzzle 2270 White mates in three moves, against any defence (by Fritz Giegold, 1969). A miniature setting with no moves for the black king, but tricky. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2269 White (to play) has a huge material advantage in this Fritz Giegold puzzle, but how can he force checkmate in three moves?...
...It sits in a domaine national, a state-owned walled estate that everyone I meet — the hoteliers, the game wardens, the guides, even the police chief — tells me is the size of Paris, the boundary the length...
...V. Students and steers I know precisely two things about Christ’s Hospital when the Mini rolls into the parking lot....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang — who else got casts like that in the penurious prime of European art cinema?...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford Significantly, but don’t ask me how....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford I just don’t know....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford The OBR’s central estimate of GDP growth slowing to 1.4% in 2017 looks as good as any. Lots of uncertainty around it....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford More pessimistic than 12 months ago (I note the question is premised on Brexit.)...
...‘David Bowie Is’, V&A, London, from today until August 11. www.vam.ac.uk...
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