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...His son, also named Boris, talked about his father last year in a long and interesting interview for the World Chess Hall of Fame in St Louis, focusing on Spassky’s later life where he emigrated to France...
...Firouzja’s nadir came last month, when he performed poorly at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis and was in acute danger of losing his Candidates qualification based on rating....
...After more than half a century when Moscow was the hub of the chess universe, the new nexuses are St Louis, where the US Championship is in its closing stages and where the holder and world No 2 Fabiano...
...His 8/9 total was assessed as a performance rating of 2946, the highest of 2023 and not far off the top three in modern tournaments: Fabiano Caruana at St Louis 2014, Magnus Carlsen at Pearl Springs 2008...
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...His paintings include ash from the volcano that vented in 1971-72 on the island of St Vincent, a crisis experienced by members of his family....
...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...
...The 30-year-old from Wenzhou, who defeated Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi after a tense and fluctuating match, is in Bucharest for the opening leg of the Grand Chess Tour, the creation of the St Louis billionaire...
...A new book, Making Economics Public, includes a chapter describing the Economy Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis....
...In the 1980s a talented professor first carried Savage’s legacy forward, Thomas Hall from St Louis, who summered on the island and was also a poet and zoologist....
...Ghent triptych, which had been taken from the Cathedral of St Bavo to the Louvre....
...Hans Niemann, 19, remains the centre of attention as the $262,000 US championship in St Louis passes half-way....
...The occasion was the Superbet Rapid and Blitz in Warsaw, part of the St Louis-organised Grand Chess Tour, so Carlsen, partly as a gesture to his hosts and partly to escape main line theory, opened as Black...
...Alireza Firouzja, who for many fans is the coming star of world chess at age 19, scooped both the Sinquefield Cup and the Grand Tour at St Louis on Sunday and collected over $270,000 in prize money....
...There were nearly 14,500 banks in 1984, according to the St Louis Fed’s blog. To compare, in 1985 the UK had 355 banks and 167 building-society mortgage lenders....
...St. Louis Fed president James Bullard will discuss the US economy and monetary policy at a Greater Jackson County Chamber lunch in Jackson, Tennessee....
...Carlsen’s description of their St Louis game as “outplaying me as Black in a way I think only a handful of players can do” is contrary to the general view that there were errors and inaccuracies on both...
...The St Louis organisers subsequently detailed all their many anti-cheating procedures and concluded that there was no suggestion of wrongdoing at the event....
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...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Castle service, cottage charms in Galway The one-time seat of the Guinness family, 800-year-old Ashford Castle straddles the border of Counties Galway and Mayo, projecting its aura of grand gloriousness...
...This week chess is back in St Louis, where the opening round of the US championship on Wednesday (7pm BST start) is live and free to watch online....
...El Greco’s intensely expressive, elongated “The Penitent St Jerome” and the pyramid of four tragic figures in his “Pietà”....
...Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester is scheduled to make two appearances and St Louis Fed president James Bullard will discuss the US economy and monetary policy at a Greater Jackson County Chamber luncheon...
...According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the inventory-to-sales ratio (excluding autos) rose from 1.05 in June last year to 1.16 in June this year....
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