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...Puzzle 2408 Philip Crocker v Alan Merry, Blackpool 2017. Black (to move) sacrificed a knight for an attack which looks stymied. Can you find Black’s winner? Click here for solution...
...I like Veja’s V-10 in white (£115, matchesfashion.com). I keep coming back to white because, well, I like white, but also because my number one rule is don’t pack the rainbow....
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...They could be all about identification, kindred anarchic spirits in a world governed by incomprehensible grown-up rules....
...When I catch up with the Russian grandmaster to seek his view on the self-taught chess prodigy, he seems to recognise a kindred spirit....
...His dissertation was on the poem “V” by the Leeds poet Tony Harrison, set in a Leeds graveyard during the 1984 miners’ strike....
...“In fact there’s an awful lot of concept-driven imagery in the V&A’s work....
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