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...Chess: 2287 (a) e3 (b) h1 (c) a8 and mate by 1 Qc8 (d) g7. However White arranges his three pieces, the BK always has a flight square at g8 or h7 Chess: 2286 (a) 1 . . . Kg3! and h5-h4-h3-h2 mate....
...Now he is a frontrunner, who was joint leader with 17-year-old Gukesh D (India) on 4/6, ahead of the favourite Fabiano Caruana (US) and Praggnanandhaa R (India) on 3.5....
...between the trio of Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura (US) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) in their thirties, and the under-21 group of Alireza Firouzja (France) and the Indians Praggnanandhaa R and Gukesh D,...
...In the penultimate round, Sivanandan defeated an IM for the first time when she beat the England women’s coach Lorin D’Costa....
...Though Maestro is the emotional panorama you’d expect from a life fully lived, the tempo is constantly brisk....
...The launch party was in the new house he’d rebuilt in 2016, with the architecture firm We Not I. Jarman’s house is wood, with artistic details in nooks, and small paned windows....
...White combines an advance of the g pawn to weaken Black’s king with central pressure up the d file, plus tactical tricks at b5. Lan Yao’s instructive win combines all three themes....
...Charles D Collins Rochester, NY, US...
...This jeu d’esprit pays tribute to Antonoff’s upbringing in New Jersey. (Springsteen himself turned up on the last Bleachers album.)...
...The composer Leonard Bernstein had a big nose. Bradley Cooper, who is playing him in the upcoming film Maestro, also has a big nose, but not as big. So, for the film, he’s wearing a fake one....
...Leonard Snoeks, the partner of a city planner, turned on the speaker he had strapped behind his seat, the size of an ’80s boombox....
...He said he’d be back. One wants and hopes to believe him. ★★★★★ sfsymphony.org...
...Pantomime isn’t exactly the first thing you’d expect at a hip-hop festival....
...“I’d been watching the prices of these houses rise from A$950,000 to A$1.1mn in 14 months. I missed out on two and I knew if I didn’t get one soon, I’d be priced out of the market,” she says....
...Rufus and I were wild teenagers, and this was the after-hours diner we’d come to for beer and latkes at 3am....
...Fine Gael was the party of Michael Collins, Fianna Fáil claimed the mantle of Eamon de Valera....
...She learnt on the job, working with revered choreographers, lyricists and composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins....
...Ding began the Superbet Classic in Bucharest with two quiet draws, an hors d’oeuvre before his round three meeting with Nepomniachtchi....
...It feels like something I’d really wanna live with, if I could. The place that means a lot to me is Paris....
...Within an hour he’d decided to put the Voice up for sale. That wasn’t quite the end. The paper teetered on through several new owners....
...I’d want to see comparisons of leadership today to financial performance a decade hence. A single financial measure is not nearly enough, and operating margins are a particularly bad choice....
...Trudging through the whiteness, they arrived after 6pm but their dreams were dashed as they realised that A Lavery and D McGovern were already there....
...Leonard Hyman Author: ‘America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future’Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari, Boston Fed president Susan Collins and Philadelphia Fed president Patrick Harker will also deliver speeches....
...But then, I’d have to kill you . . . ” Only a slight dimple gives her away. Concerts in London and Antwerp in February and in New York in March, elimchan.nl...
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