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...The excursion on the tournament’s free day includes a visit to Fischer’s grave. The first Reykjavik Open in 1964 was won by Mikhail Tal, who along with Spassky was Fischer’s great contemporary rival....
...In a final, immersive flourish, Fischer has projected a selection of these photographs — taken on a rare Widelux panoramic camera — on three walls, while visitors are invited to lounge on a “barge”, titled...
...Mishra’s was a classic positional game, with a touch of Fischer, demonstrating the strength of an active against a passive rook. Niemann’s victory against Sam Sevian was contrastingly wild....
...Georg Fischer: Shares in the Swiss industrial group jumped by 7.7 per cent after it said it would not go ahead with a capital increase that it had planned alongside an acquisition....
...Given that he’s unemployed — “doing nothing’s a profession, after all” — Leroy is financially dependent on the women in his life, a parasitic pattern that predates his addiction....
...Under Fischer’s direction, there was a kind of modesty to their Mahler....
...The scandal triggered the resignation of then director Hartwig Fischer....
...Carlsen made his own contribution to the debate last year during a long interview with the podcaster Lex Fridman, when he said: “I think I can make a case for myself, for Garry, and for Fischer....
...Elite grandmasters like Freestyle/960/Fischer Random because it frees them from the many hours of drudgery spent in opening preparation in mainstream chess....
...In Chinatown, for example, Soldes, The Fulcrum, No Moon LA, Leroy’s, Human Resources and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive co-ordinate openings and pool their resources, sharing equipment and helping one...
...While Carlsen’s positive reputation as one of three greatest of all time, alongside Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, is already secure, Ding is in real danger of creating a negative record, as the worst...
...Earlier this week Fischer issued a statement claiming Gradel had withheld information in 2021 and that he had only notified the British Museum about concerns over “a small number of items”....
...Gukesh’s victory is a historic achievement. Only Bobby Fischer in 1959 and Carlsen in 2006, both then 16, have been younger Candidates, and both were also-rans....
...As Fischer Black observed nearly 40 years ago, the resulting “noise” is actually valuable....
...Julia Fischer was the high-profile soloist, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under music director Edward Gardner made sure the music constantly bubbled with detail, alive with interesting ideas that...
...Realistically, though, there are now fewer world class prospects than in the golden era of the 1970s, when the Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky match sparked the interest of teenagers at grammar and public...
...The Fischer-Bargoin household saw is a domestic version, available from Weschenfelder, the professional butchery supply house, for £28.50....
...In Freestyle, also known as Fischer Random or Chess 960, the back rank pieces are arranged randomly and symmetrically, thus defeating book memory of openings....
...“The deals are really big and plentiful right now and that just creates this giant shopping frenzy by the governors,” says Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First....
...Troubles in storage It took a long time to uncover the thefts. Gradel complained to a trustee last October of being ignored and Osborne asked Fischer to explain....
...Greg Fischer, a Long Islander who is, himself, an inveterate independent seeker of public office, smiled in despair as he expressed the sense that ordinary people were doomed in a world dominated by powerful...
...The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments for Fischer vs United States and rule if a statute used to charge about 330 defendants accused of storming the Capitol building on January 6 2021 has been applied...
...Before the war, Leroy Merlin made about €5bn in revenues in Russia every year, he added. Leroy Merlin did not respond to a request for comment from the Financial Times....
...Each of the main evening concerts offered a standard programme, with Hungarian-born pianist András Schiff as the soloist in each, leaving Fischer’s customary quirks mostly for the encores (each of these...
...It used to be called Fischer Random after its legendary world champion inventor, and is also known as Chess 960 and Chess 9LX....
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