Hints and tips:
...It seems unlikely, because he had done badly in their individual meetings and could not match the No1’s imaginative attacks. But with a home audience to inspire the challenger, who knows?...
...Against Carlsen, his accuracy rate was in the mid-nineties against the No 1’s in the mid-eighties, a similar statistic to Carlsen v Niemann....
...Leonard Hyman Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...You can sit out on the huge terrace with a Pepiño Jalapeño Margarita and, after dark, move inside for a menu of whole-roasted king crab legs and wagyu steak tacos by ex-Nobu chef Leonard Tanyag....
...In 2022’s Bouffées, the only sound was their breath, setting the pace of their staccato gestures — a raised fist to the cheek, a hand to the forehead, in complex canons that kept separating them and then...
...Ramdane Touhami and Léonard Vernhet of arts journal Epoch Review....
...Another early work, 1947’s “Untitled (The Crowded Mind/The Void)” presents a series of symbols cluttered together (geometric shapes, the sun, an aeroplane) with a chunk of the canvas cut off by a wave of...
...His win with Black against Anish Giri of the Netherlands showed the No1’s technique at its best, as well as his constant search for improvement....
...George Gershwin came from Tin Pan Alley to write Porgy and Bess. Leonard Bernstein juggled opera and Broadway with equal panache....
...For a good idea of what I listen to while I’m writing this email, check out Radio 3’s excellent Night Tracks programme....
...Leonard S. Hyman Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...Fifty-six straight minutes of “Hallelujah”s....
...Its prize funds are lower than Chess24’s, but still enough to attract the best players, as in the current women’s speed championship which has featured a rare appearance by the semi-retired all-time No2...
...Until February 18; further information and tickets here Festival South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SOBEWFF) 2024’s iteration of this long-running festival looks set to be spectacular....
...MI5’s Leonard Flood is on the trail of a retired colleague who seems to have been poisoned by the Russians — and disaster beckons for the security service....
...The No3 seeds, Norway, are led by Magnus Carlsen in the No1’‘s first classical event since announcing that he will not defend his world crown in 2023....
...We see the S&P 500 at 3,900 at end-2023....
...The No1’s games will be screened free and live to a global online audience starting at 4pm daily, with running commentaries by grandmasters and a graphic sidebar that enables non-chess players to see at...
...Leonard Cohen is the presiding spirit on “Hydra”, his stories burning up the dark....
...Letter in response to this article: Imagine the savings if we’d decarbonised 10 years ago / From Leonard S Hyman, Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...Phoebe Jascourt, a commissioning editor at Penguin, says that 2016’s internationally best-selling Good Night stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, a collection of true stories of...
...“When lipstick sales go up, people don’t want to buy dresses,” said Leonard Lauder, Estee Lauder’s chair, in 2001....
...The England No1’s raging rooks found the fastest way to end the game. Click here for solution...
...In the 1870s, the house was renamed St Leonard’s Hill and given a neo-Gothic makeover. Three British prime ministers lived here, including William Pitt the Elder....
...Unlike men’s chess, where the world champion Magnus Carlsen is Norwegian and several western countries have contenders, strength in the women’‘s game is lopsided and geared to the former USSR and its satellites...
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