Hints and tips:
...However, it was running short of cash and needed as much as $400mn in fresh funding to have a chance of emerging viably, the people said....
...Royal is closing in on the grandmaster title and David Howell’s age record of becoming a GM at 16, but the final norm is proving elusive, and he fell short again at Peterborough, as did England’s other...
...He finished half a point short, missing difficult wins in three of his last four games....
...Tacitly pre-agreed short draws are a problem in top chess, so the ruling could create a significant precedent. The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue....
...Back in London 1980, Nigel Short was also 14 when he played in the Phillips & Drew Kings. He finished last, but 13 years later challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title....
...In short, the prognosis for a record attempt is favourable. Jones’s second place was the surprise of the tournament....
...After the 1990s, when England stopped winning Olympiad medals and Nigel Short lost his world title challenge to Kasparov, the City sponsors withdrew from chess, while in 2011 a £60,000 annual government...
...The work of Objects for Objects, a furniture studio founded by Leonard Bessemer, also eschews the trend for pared-back neutrals....
...She learnt on the job, working with revered choreographers, lyricists and composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins....
...“Climate is being ‘renationalised’, as a green backlash becomes a powerful rallying cry for the anti-establishment right,” wrote the ECFR report authors, Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard....
...In the album’s second half, “Mo Green” builds a short sequence into a fiery edifice of etched lines, and the lightly strummed “Mask” gathers strength over a New Orleans pulse....
...Past guests include Leonard and Virginia Woolf; Edward Lear too....
...However, in the boom years of the 1970s to 1990s the very best talents Nigel Short and Michael Adams both preferred to bypass university....
...Poor Amy Winehouse, the singer whose short, blistering career is being commemorated in a new feature film....
...Leonard Hyman Author: ‘America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future’Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...Low rates have enabled poorer quality companies to keep themselves afloat with cheap financing, making short bets particularly tough....
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you win the battle of queens and rooks?
...The short answer is “no”. For the long answer, read on....
...An accompanying short film, Fink, by director Lisa Schiller, offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the photographer’s process....
...My personal style signifiers are black Charvet boxer shorts – not that many people see those – and black vintage T-shirts worn inside out....
...All three themes also featured in her mesmerising short-story collection The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye....
...Short lost to Kasparov, sponsors withdrew, chess disappeared from television screens, prizes became smaller and entry fees higher....
...Nigel Short, England’s most famous player, tweeted: “I don’t like to jinx young players by over-praising them, but she looks like a really big talent”....
...Following current fashion, Julia Adolphe’s Makeshift Castle was strong on atmospheric orchestral textures, but short on melody and rhythm, less memorable than some others of its type....
...Michael Adams, now 51, and Nigel Short, now 57, challenged for world titles in their peak years, and both legends were key performers in June when England fought off a strong US challenge to win the world...
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