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Chess
India’s Gukesh, 17, is youngest ever Candidates winner
...He remarked that, despite his lack of experience, his youth was a strength for such a long tournament: “it’s easier to be focused at my age”....
April 22, 2024
Chess
Chess solutions
...when Rxh4 is a stalemate draw, Rc4+ 3 Rxc4 bxc4 4 Kxc4 is a drawn pawn endgame, and Rb2 3 Rh7+ Kb8 4 Kxc6 is a drawn rook ending....
April 9, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Chess
Indians shine at Candidates, but Russia’s Nepomniachtchi leads again
...A number above 1 (= one pawn) means a significant edge, above 2 is a likely winning advantage, while below 1 is an equal position. Puzzle 2567 Matthias Bluebaum vs Robert Baskin, Titled Tuesday 2020....
April 11, 2024
Chess
Carlsen and Buettner announce Freestyle Chess Tour for top players
...In reality it seems very unlikely that the events will gain sufficient interest for mainstream audiences, given that most games will last some hours before it is even clear who is winning....
March 18, 2024
Chess
Government’s £500k chess stimulus tests England’s elite talents
...It was a tough debut at such a high level for Sivanandan, who came to the event without a break from last week’s Reykjavik Open, where she scored an excellent 5.5 out of 9, losing only to a grandmaster and...
March 27, 2024
Chess
Chess: generation battle as world title Candidates starts in Toronto
...His two previous Candidates appearances were marked by high-profile publicity, with references to help from a supercomputer and a team of aides, while this time his preparation has been low-key....
April 2, 2024
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Chess
Chess: Nakamura surges, but Nepomniachtchi still leads Candidates as final rounds near
...Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi, winner of the last two Candidates, remains half a point ahead....
April 18, 2024
Chess
Chess: Michael Adams wins again on a vintage weekend for over-50s
...In the final round at Cambridge he defeated Jonah Willow, 21, when a win would have given the Nottingham player his first grandmaster norm....
February 26, 2024
Chess
Carlsen wins at Freestyle Chess amid ambitious plans
...The pairing, a repeat of their 2018 title match, had a dramatic start as Carlsen opened 1 g2-g4!...
February 20, 2024
Chess
Chess: Oxford vs Cambridge almost level after 151 years
...knight fork and the other to a bishop pin....
March 4, 2024
Chess
Chess: Half a century on, Fischer v Spassky at Reykjavik still echoes
...Just a single line of play, but it defeats many. Click here for solution...
March 11, 2024
Chess
The forgotten world title challenger Salo Flohr
...The first game of his that I ever played over made a big impression....
January 22, 2024
Chess
World champion crushed in freestyle chess
..., including a link to an FT column....
February 15, 2024
Chess
Ex-prodigy surprises at ‘chess Wimbledon’ while world champion flops
...Afterwards he revealed a major reason for his unusual career progression....
January 29, 2024
Chess
Hastings plans to revive its vintage years
...With the help of the new £500,000 government grant for elite chess, a much stronger home entry should be a realistic target....
January 8, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Chess
World No 1 v world champion: Carlsen and Ding to meet this weekend
...There the format will be the best of two games at classical time rates, with a rapid decider if the score is 1-1. Carlsen describes the event as “a dream come true”....
February 5, 2024
Chess
World champion Ding makes comeback at ‘chess Wimbledon’
...I think it’s a very classical way to do it.”...
January 15, 2024
Chess
Michael Adams wins London Classic at age 52
...Queen’s side would have given him a promising position, whereas king’s side resulted in a rapid defeat. Niemann’s reply 21 Ra4!...
December 11, 2023
Chess
Memories of the legendary Paul Keres
...A difficult question with no clear answer but the fate of Viktor Korchnoi, who defected in 1976 and was treated as a non-person by the USSR for many years, offers a clue....
December 27, 2023
Chess
Magnus Carlsen wins another two world championships
...His match defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000 was a blip, and Kramnik was careful to avoid a return series. Kasparov was also a pioneer in chess theory and in using computers for training....
January 2, 2024
Chess
Aged just eight, Bodhana Sivanandan enters chess history
...High ambitions — but given what she has achieved so far, you would not bet against her....
December 18, 2023
ReviewFilm
Maestro film review — Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein is electric and intelligent
...(Even given his own choices did much of that nudging themselves.)...
November 23, 2023
The Oscars 2024: all you need to know
Leonard Bernstein’s daughters on the biopic Maestro: ‘Take it from us, it is uncanny’
...One essential element is a subject with a high level of charisma, and nobody offered more of that than American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein....
November 15, 2023
Leonard Blavatnik
Leonard Blavatnik’s entertainment empire plans media acquisition spree
...Access owns one of the two commercial broadcasters in Israel, which Cohen said was “challenging” at present given there was “virtually no advertising revenue”....
November 19, 2023
DAZN Group
Len Blavatnik’s DAZN threatens to sue German football league over TV rights auction
...In a letter to the co-head of the football league sent on Thursday, DAZN said it would file a statement of claim in an arbitration tribunal to challenge the decision next week unless a solution could be...
April 26, 2024

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