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...In the film The Imitation Game, the actor Matthew Goode played Alexander....
...One whose reputation has suffered is Salo Flohr, the world No2 behind Alexander Alekhine in the early 1930s....
...In its heyday, the top home players always competed, with occasional dazzling successes such as Sir George Thomas, better known for badminton, in 1934-35, and Hugh Alexander, codebreaker and FT chess columnist...
...Estonian, who triumphed at Avro 1938 in a historic tournament of the world top eight, played in a classical style with tactical bursts and was widely viewed as the likely successor as champion to the ageing Alexander...
...As Alexander, Bernstein’s son, remarked pithily in Jamie’s 2018 memoir Famous Father Girl, “He’s coming out of the closet ass-first.”...
...Nearly a century later, it was shown to Alexander Alekhine a few months before his death....
...One of my favourites is pink-flowered Magnolia x loebneri Leonard Messel, which grows and flowers even on alkaline soil....
...Nepomniachtchi’s career also shows moments of what the commentator and former Fide champion Alexander Khalifman calls “mental instability in extreme situations: if something suddenly goes wrong, both can...
...Decades ago Hugh Alexander, the FT columnist and Bletchley and GCHQ codebreaker, used to say that backward diagonal queen moves were the easiest to overlook. Evidently Alexander was right . . ....
...Puzzle 2504 Hugh Alexander vs Edward Marshall, Cambridge 1928. White to move and win....
...Alexander used to say that the hardest move to visualise was a backward diagonal queen capture....
...Its vintage years were the 1930s, when Alexander Alekhine and José Raúl Capablanca competed, and the 1970s boom, when the Soviet stars were led by Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky and Mikhail Tal....
...In 1938, Elaine Saunders, then 12, went close to a draw with world champion Alexander Alekhine in his simultaneous display, while Akshaya Kalaiyalahan shared the British women’s title at 11, but Sivanandan...
...Russia’s Alexander Grischuk summed it up succinctly: “Their game wasn’t suspicious. Niemann played average and Carlsen played poorly”. What happens next?...
...“Art has traditionally been seen as a fairly robust hedge against inflation,” says Alexander Forbes, Artsy’s head of galleries and fairs, “and the market is resilient to broader macroeconomic challenges,...
...as Alexander McQueen, Martin Margiela and Vivienne Westwood....
...Jil Sander by Lucie and Luke Meier leather shoes, £585 Jil Sander by Lucie and Luke Meier silk and mohair coat, £6,000 Alexander McQueen tulle crystal, bead and sequin embroidered dress, £10,500....
...(Like many of her generation, Anderson’s encounter with Cavafy was through Leonard Cohen’s song “Alexandra Leaving”.)...
...Since the start of the pandemic, average premiums on US homes worth more than $1mn have increased by 30 per cent, according to Michel Leonard, of the Insurance Information Institute, a US insurance research...
...Only three of the top USSR grandmasters spoke it well, and Paul Keres and Alexander Kotov preferred to travel in Europe....
...Puzzle 2461 Alexander Areshchenko v Zbynek Hracek, Minsk 2017. Whito to move and win. It seems right for this week’s puzzle to be a Ukrainian victory....
...In 1946, the then world champion Alexander Alekhine was accused of Nazi collaboration based on some virulently anti-Jewish articles, and was barred from a London tournament....
...Bremen honoured their No2 and 3 players, the 2007 European silver medallist Alexander Areshchenko and the 2010 Olympiad gold medallist Zahar Efimenko, who are still in Ukraine with their families....
...Price was also the owner-manager of the Gambit, London’s crowded chess café off Cannon Street, whose basement hosted the Britain v USSR radio match in 1946 where the Bletchley codebreaker Hugh Alexander...
...Puzzle 2430 Yurii Khodko vs Alexander Gutenev, Russian team championship 2021. Black to play. Can you find Gutenev’s winning move?...
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