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...All the top four plus Jones are consistently rated 2600-plus grandmasters, but they are all now in their thirties....
...Final leading scores were Adams 7.5/9, Steven Jones 6.5, Dan Fernandez, Harry Grieve, Matthew Wadsworth and Yichen Han 6....
...However, this success masks the fact that there are just four active grandmasters — Michael Adams, Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones — rated over 2600, the level of the world top 250, and all four are...
...She and her husband Leonard published the first UK edition of “The Waste Land”, and of those 470 copies, Jones possesses three, including the Eliot “family copy” and another once owned by Woolf’s sister,...
...Additional contributions from Gary Jones and Euan Healy...
...★★★☆☆ Single-minded men are fast becoming the running theme of this year’s festival, with Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro looming this weekend....
...Before that, Danny Gormally shared first place in 2018-19, while Gawain Jones was the clear winner in 2012-13....
...England’s current team of Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones are all over 30, and since the late 1990s no new players have got anywhere near a world top 100 ranking....
...1980s, England was briefly the No2 chess nation behind the former Soviet Union, but the golden generation grew old and there has been no new English player in the world top 100 since Howell and Gawain Jones...
...Additional reporting by Katie Martin, Martin Arnold and James Politi Letters in response to this article: Deposit-taking banks are like nuclear power plants / From Leonard Hyman, Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...I’m trying to think… A copy of Two Stories, by Leonard and Virginia Woolf… There’s also a Lucian Freud portrait of a pigeon [Jones’s enthusiasms are by no means Bloomsbury exclusive]....
...Puzzle 2482 Gawain Jones vs Lei Tingjie, Charity Cup 2022. White to play. What was the English grandmaster’s winning move? For solution, click here...
...International results are dependent on the four grandmasters — Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones — who have been the nucleus of the national team for a decade but are now all aged...
...Ray Charles, Édith Piaf and Grace Jones all performed at Forte’s Capannina club where, local legend goes, the Negroni cocktail was first concocted for Count Negroni....
...Michael Adams for Baden-Baden, Luke McShane for Werder Bremen, and Gawain Jones for Munich, all played the No1 board for their respective teams....
...Tom Jones, of the Ho-Chunk nation, snapped a photo of a “Trail Marker Tree” in Wisconsin....
...England’s teams disappointed, but there was an exception in the fine performance of Gawain Jones....
...“All these moves make clear to Russian public opinion that the country is isolated in the world and disapproved of,” says Leonard. A political strategy?...
...Smart reads Representing the Right The conservative movement in the US government and judicial system had a key proponent: corporate law firm Jones Day....
...Afterwards Jones sent a brief message to his fans via the game comments: “Sorry guys, not a good day”....
...England will be represented there by the No1, Michael Adams, and by one of David Howell, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane....
...Guildford will field Michael Adams, David Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones, effectively the England national team....
...It is one of the great late-career runs of albums, to put alongside Johnny Cash’s or Leonard Cohen’s, even if the notion of Jones the artist might still seem odd to those who can only visualise him under...
...McShane scored 7.5, Adams 7, and Gawain Jones 6.5, while the youngest and lowest ranked player, the Cambridge economics student Matthew Wadsworth, 20, totalled a promising 5/11....
...It is rare for Michael Adams, the seven-time champion who has just won a web version of the national title, to take on Gawain Jones, David Howell, and the City of London trader Luke McShane in the same event...
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