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...Personally, I hold Michael Douglas wearing a chunky bottle green jumper over a bare chest in 1992’s Basic Instinct as the pinnacle of V-neck wearing....
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...Puzzle 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2531 Harry Grieve v Dan Fernandez, British Championship, Leicester 2023. At a glance, the position looks complex. Can you find White’s winning move? Click here for solution...
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...Puzzle 2509 Carel van den Berg v Erich Eliskases, Beverwijk 1959. White to move and win. In the actual game, the Dutch international master missed the decisive move and lost eight moves later....
...Michael Sheen stars as Bevan. February 24 to May 11; Find information and tickets here....
...“There are no domestic equity investors here — everything else is a symptom,” says Michael Tory, founder of advisory firm Ondra Partners....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Puzzle 2497 Alistair Hill v Kayden Troff, Abu Dhabi 2016. White to move. How did the English amateur checkmate the US grandmaster? Click here for solution...
...buy from London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery....
...Spode’s tea set in its enduring blue-and-white glaze includes a King Charles III “tea bag tidy”....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...She fused the feminine with the utilitarian, softening a black nylon bomber jacket with dropped shoulders and full blouson sleeves over a frilly white skirt; embroidering a white shirt with pink camomile...
...There’s also usually a white wine from Renishaw Hall, a winery in the north of England – the wine is so good it’s actually very difficult to get hold of....
...Its most powerful executive, Michael Milken, pitched “high-yield” bonds as an attractive alternative to debt issued by safer, investment-grade companies....
...Puzzle 2478 Magnus Carlsen v Bu Xiangzhi, Biel 2007. White to move and win. How did the future world champion induce immediate resignation? Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2474 Elisabeth Paehtz v Mahri Geldiyeva, Baku 2016. White to move and force checkmate. Germany’s best woman player (White, to move) has the black king trapped on the board edge....
...Puzzle 2460 David Howell v Simon Williams, Bournemouth 2012. White to move and win. First prize was stake, and White’s queen was attacked. Can you find Howell’s decisive sequence?...
...Even the action, now familiar to those who have tracked every iteration of the rescue, was gripping: a white-knuckle endeavour of quite breathtaking risk....
...England, led by Michael Adams and Nigel Short, are the top seeds. Puzzle 2473 Vishy Anand v Shak Mamedyarov, Stavanger 2022. Anand (White) has just played Qd3-b5, What happened next?...
...Instead, seek out a flattering V and adjustable strap. And don’t forget to have a magic trick on hand if things go awry....
...A high-quality Renaissance paper – one bearing a Leonardo da Vinci drawing, for instance – will still be white, says Cropper, because it is made from pure linen....
...It was the titular piece in the Royal Academy show that marked Michael Armitage as a major force in painting....
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