Hints and tips:
...Three decades later, I made the same type of error against Flohr at Hastings. My 12...Nxb3?...
...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 2498 Gyula Breyer v Kornel Havasi, Budapest 1918. White to move and win. Both kings are exposed, but White can strike first. Click here for solution...
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...Email me at sid.v@ft.com. Reach Imani at imani.moise@ft.com. PS I’ll be interviewing Jonas Templestein, the co-founder of Monzo Bank, at the FT Future of Finance summit on June 16-17....
...In the 1930s, a decade when four world champions played there, Hastings was the most prestigious annual tournament in chess....
...Puzzle 2452 Jonathan Rowson v Simon Knott, British championship 2007. White to move and win....
...Puzzle 2435 Zhao Hue v Julia Ryjanova, Shenzhen China v Australia, Fide online Olympiad 2021. White to move. How did she win Black’s apparently safe queen? Click here for solution...
...She and her husband Jonathan, the owner of Marlborough Rare Books, the antiquarian book dealer in London, gave their collection of paper peepshow printed scenes to the V&A museum in 2016....
...Puzzle 2423 Wei Yi v Tigran L Petrosian, China v Armenia, Pro Chess League 2020. Find White’s surprise winning move. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2402 Al Horowitz v Alex Kevitz, New York 1931. How did White (to play) win in style? Click here for solution...
...Everyone remembers Richard Nixon desperately flashing the V-for-victory sign before boarding the presidential helicopter on the White House lawn — a reminder that no man is bigger than the law....
...The hope is that this mix will produce a new English star, who can inspire like Hugh Alexander in 1953 and Nigel Short in 1979. 2349 Deep Sengupta v Magesh Panchanathan, Hastings 2019-20....
...The V-shaped recovery in consumer spending feels too bullish in our view....
...The puzzle diagram is from Kevin Spraggett v Jonathan Speelman, Hastings 1989-90, where the Canadian GM’s 1 Nxg3? led to a draw. Click here for solution...
...And GTA V’s publisher Rockstar has a history of delaying titles in the name of quality; GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, RDR2, Max Payne and L.A. Noire were all delayed....
...Puzzle 2297 Garry Kasparov v Jan Timman, Wijk aan Zee 2000. Black has just played c5-c4+ intending 1 Rxc4 Rxb5 with level material and a drawn rook ending or 1 Kxc4 d3 followed by d2 and d1Q....
...for these elevated levels of risk, Luna says the central bank is likely to heed to these pressures when it meets on Thursday....
...Joan C Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Hastings and is the author of ‘White Working Class’....
...Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year. It’s 16 per cent up year on year, which is a lot of visitors to be up”....
...Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings reveals how he runs his online streaming company like a champion sports team: “If you want job security you don’t go into sports — and you don’t join Netflix.”...
...Williams, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, now in her sixties, emphasises: “I’m a race-gender person. I’ve been working on race and gender for 40 years.”...
...Rossetti’s flame-haired “La Ghirlandata” accompanied by teenage angels, Burne-Jones’s blue-tinted figure fluttering through the night sky “Luna” — owned by Ionides’ brother, then by Yves Saint Laurent —...
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