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...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...It was originally called Fischer Random after its inventor, then Chess 960 or Chess 9LX after the number of possible starting positions....
...Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, have been younger Candidates, and both were also-rans....
...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Realistically, though, there are now fewer world class prospects than in the golden era of the 1970s, when the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match sparked the interest of teenagers at grammar and public...
...During the V&A’s recent Gabrielle Chanel exhibition, London-based caterer Rocket organised a series of corporate events inspired by the show....
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...In the eyes of many, his consistency is edging him ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer as the greatest of all time....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...He will be the third youngest Candidate ever, after Carlsen and Bobby Fischer....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...Evidently Wojtaszek knew Karpov v Miles well, as he chose a harmonious formation with Nbd2 to guard his e4 pawn where Karpov had preferred the less precise Qe2....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...2022 has proved a vintage year for English senior chess, half a century after the Fischer v Spassky match which triggered a global boom and, for a while, made England the world No2 chess nation behind the...
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...Bobby Fischer in 1975 renounced his Fide championship title, and then retired apart from a brief comeback in 1992....
...The period between the Fischer-Spassky match of 1972 and the fall of the Berlin Wall was uniquely productive for English chess....
...A third round of Carlsen v Niemann is possible this weekend....
...Puzzle 2486 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. The position appears completely blocked, but there is a hidden route through Black’s defences....
...However, the “monarchical bragging rights” go to Norway’s Harald V, under whom GDP per capita has increased by 3.8 per cent a year on average since he ascended to the throne in 1991....
...Puzzle 2489 Gata Kamsky v Judit Polgar, Buenos Aires 1994. The all-time No1 woman was doubly threatened with immediate checkmate by 1 d8=Q mate or 1 Qf8 mate....
...Puzzle 2477 Pavel Anisimov v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Krasnoyarsk 2007. Black, the future double world title challenger, to move and force mate. Click here for solution...
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