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...Yasuda, assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University....
...Magnus Carlsen won another two world championships last week when the Norwegian, 33, again confirmed his status as the outstanding player of his generation....
...The RAC’s excellently produced brochure shows that chess is experiencing a popularity wave at universities due to Magnus Carlsen, Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, and the easy accessibility of online speed...
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...Magnus Carlsen’s Alpine Warriors and Vishy Anand’s Ganges Grandmasters had led most of the way, but were passed in the closing rounds....
...World number 1 Magnus Carlsen has won first prize, $200,000, in the Champions Tour for the third consecutive year....
...Composer Magnus Lindberg’s evolution has been fascinating, parallel to some other lapsed modernists but somehow more extreme, from a hyper-complexity four decades ago to an almost romantic maximalism today...
...Hopes of a top-three finish were encouraged by last week’s world seniors gold medals for Michael Adams and John Nunn....
...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...
...The deal was so important that Nike chief John Donahoe was in Germany for the pitch. The swoosh will replace the three stripes in 2027, but the fallout will run and run....
...The magnetic Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, five times world champion, sat out the latest tournament, thereby relinquishing his title....
...“It gives the lie to common prosperity,” John Burns, an honorary professor of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong, says of hukou....
...George Osborne, former Tory chancellor, told Channel 4 on Sunday evening that the scandals were reminiscent of the 1990s under former prime minister John Major....
...This is precisely what John Maynard Keynes warned about, unsuccessfully, in 1944....
...Hans Niemann, the US 19-year-old accused by world champion Magnus Carlsen of being a cheat, made a strong recovery in the second half of the US championship in St Louis....
...It published its investigation after Magnus Carlsen, world chess champion, accused Niemann of cheating when the latter beat him at an in-person tournament....
...Magnus Mills continued to drive buses after becoming a successful novelist, but the staple writer day-jobs are in journalism, publishing and academia....
...He added Sunak’s decision to refer Zahawi to his independent ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, smacked of hesitation. “Flapping around doesn’t work,” he said....
...John Plender is an FT columnist. Illustrations by Bill Butcher....
...Magnus Carlsen this week launched his attempt to retain the chess world championship once again, with reason for confidence....
...Just as in their classical world title match in Dubai, the Russian, who had tweeted his opposition to the war in Ukraine, held his own well for five games then collapsed at critical moments. 2459 John...
...Morgan Stanley’s Asia-Pacific co-head of equity capital markets Magnus Andersson is retiring after more than 15 years at the firm, according to Bloomberg....
...cheating claims Hans Niemann, the 19-year-old chess grandmaster accused of cheating, filed a lawsuit in US federal court seeking at least $100mn in damages from defendants including reigning world champion Magnus...
...The Candidates is under way this week, as eight elite players try to qualify as Magnus Carlsen’s next challenger....
...Go deeper: The ‘chip choke’ on China may breathe new life into the semiconductor industry, writes John Thornhill. 2....
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