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...Nd4 2 Nb6 mate (by John Rice and Michael Lipton). Chess: 2345 1 Rxg7! Kxg7 (if Rb1 2 Rg1! Rxd1 3 Rxh6 mate) 2 Qg1+ Kf8 (if Kh7 3 Bf5+ Kh8 4 Rxh6 mate) 3 Bf5+ Nxf5 4 Qg8+ Ke7 5 Qf7 mate....
...In 2024, England is the No1 nation in senior chess for over-50s and over-65s, with several gold and silver medals in recent world team championships, plus individual world titles for John Nunn and Michael...
...Former players in the varsity match have often had distinguished careers, as can be seen from the section in John Saunders’s encyclopedic and highly informative Britbase, which contains alphabetical mini-biographies...
...The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust provided free entry for many other juniors....
...Caplin, provider of mobile and desktop technology, has been its primary sponsor since 2019, while the John Robinson Youth Chess Trust provides funds to help many of Britain’s junior talents to compete....
...The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust helps to finance Sivanandan’s overseas tournaments, which have already included successes in Spain and Latvia....
...Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” was the evening’s ballad, opening with a beautiful duet between guitar and double bass....
...Hopes of a top-three finish were encouraged by last week’s world seniors gold medals for Michael Adams and John Nunn....
...Michael Adams, 51, is top seeded in the over-50s, and shares the lead with three others on 5/6; while John Nunn, 68, is top seeded in the over-65s and leads on 5.5/6, half a point ahead of five pursuers...
...Michael Adams and John Nunn scored a golden double for England at the world senior championships for over-50s and over-65s, which ended at Terrasini, Sicily, on Sunday evening....
...England 65+, led by John Nunn and with strong performances from Tony Kosten and Terry Chapman, won eight of their nine matches, but their rivals Germany-Lasker won all nine....
...The Adagietto — the music Leonard Bernstein took to his grave — lasted 13 minutes. But the music seemed not enervated but savoured....
...John Scofield has been showcasing his uncanny melodic gift and dynamic sense of pulse on major labels for more than 30 years....
...The team of Mark Hebden, John Emms, Keith Arkell, Glenn Flear and Chris Ward were brilliantly led by Hebden, 65, who scored 7.5/8 and took the board one gold medal....
...Sir Leonard Blavatnik’s sports media group DAZN hired former Amazon and Twitch executive Walker Jacobs as global chief revenue officer....
...The over-50 squad fields five grandmasters, the over-65s are led by former world top 10 GM John Nunn, while all five of the England over-50 women hold Fide titles....
...Lilah RaptopoulosShout out to John Grisham. Andrew DicksonYeah. Well, I mean, John Grisham. We need to talk about John Grisham....
...Chess currently has zero government support and he lacks a sponsor, so his exceptional talent is being backed by the John Robinson Youth Chess Trust and by the ECF’s Accelerator Programme....
...John Nunn won the over-65 gold medal to add to the world title he won last year....
...The study provided more evidence of the “immense potential impact” gene-editing platforms could have on human health, said John Leonard, Intellia’s president and chief executive officer....
...Celebrating Silver at Hamiltons, London, until 9 March Inès Cross EAT St John at Fortnum & Mason, London Like a travelling circus, the St John Smithfield team have moved into Fortnum & Mason’s ground...
...Leonard Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and Luciano Pavarotti are among the starry subjects, portrayed with an insider’s proximity but also insight....
...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
...Wrestler and actor John Cena took to the stage wearing nothing but a strategically placed envelope to present the award for Best Costume Design. Is men showing skin a sign of progress?...
...One important wider role for the match has been to produce future England internationals, including John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman who both reached the world top 10....
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