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...However, it was Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, playing under a neutral Fide flag, who shared the lead....
...David Howell, Michael Adams and Luke McShane also did well, but the reserve, Ravi Haria, suffered two costly defeats....
...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...
...top seeds, who include world No1 Magnus Carlsen, the US trio of Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So, Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, and India’s rising star Dommaraju Gukesh, 17....
...Neighbouring Kazakhstan will host the €2mn Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren world title match, starting in Astana on April 7....
...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...
...The 2021 challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi is the early leader with 3/4, but it is still early days in Madrid, where the contest continues until July 4....
...(Service Works’ classic chef pants cost £59; similar styles from Margaret Howell cost upwards of £200.)...
...Commentaries by England’s David Howell and Jovanka Houska are free to view on chess24.com....
...Chess24 has three-time British champion David Howell for inexperienced players and newcomers, with world No 7 Anish Giri and all-time No1 woman Judit Polgar analysing for experts....
...David Howell, who finished well in the top half of the Rapid with 8/13, is the only English entrant....
...The Sussex 31-year-old finished ahead of the world ranked Hikaru Nakamura and Ian Nepomniachtchi, and in the final round defeated America’s rising star Jeffery Xiong, neatly trapping the errant US queen...
...Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, champion and challenger, have drawn the first five of their $2m 14-game world title match in Dubai after computer preparation and their accurate memory banks dominated...
...Meanwhile, Carlsen and his current challenger, Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, are preparing for their 14-game, $2m, championship series which starts in Dubai on November 26....
...Michael Howell of CrossBorder Capital is the prime proponent of this view....
...John Howells, chief executive of Link, which runs the UK’s cash machine network, said the consultation was “very positive”, but added that “it needs to be in force quickly because ATMs and branches are closing...
...Ian Harnett of Absolute Strategy Research emailed me to point out that if you go back further, the correlation does not hold at all: There was a regime change in this relationship in the late 1980s....
...World champion Magnus Carlsen, French world No 5 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and England’s former prodigy and triple British champion David Howell, plus four others from the world top 100, have all celebrated...
...I also bought, for a friend, a vintage Margaret Howell overcoat that I really like. It might wind up in my wardrobe but I think I’ll probably give it to him....
...Volvo’s chief executive Håkan Samuelsson told the FT summit earlier in the week that the Swedish premium brand may be fully electric as early as 2030, while Honda’s European director Ian Howells told the...
...Bentley chief executive Adrian Hallmark, Volkswagen senior executive Alexander Hitzinger and senior Honda executive Ian Howells are among speakers from established carmakers, while start-up founders including...
...Matthew Warchus’s fluent staging, on Rob Howell’s set (a grid of solar panels), evolves like a dance, with Foy and Smith shifting together then apart....
...Ian Howells, Honda’s top UK executive, said that in addition to the 3,500 direct jobs affected at the company’s Swindon plant, a further 3,500 people “working in affiliates primarily supplying Honda” in...
...Honda executives said on Tuesday that the closure decision was not about Brexit, referring instead to what Ian Howells, the carmaker’s top UK executive, described as “unprecedented changes in the industry...
...Ian Howells, senior vice-president for Honda Motor Europe, insisted: “I can say hand on heart Brexit was not part of that decision.”...
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