Hints and tips:
...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....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...One important wider role for the match has been to produce future England internationals, including John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman who both reached the world top 10....
...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...
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...Nunn otherwise scored 6.5/7 and won the top board medal despite his default....
...England over-65s, headed by John Nunn, are second seeds behind Israel, whose lower boards are strong....
...In that year the England No1 Michael Adams reaches age 50 and becomes eligible along with Nigel Short; while John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman, both Olympiad silver medallists, pass 65....
...Before that there was an interesting preliminary round involving two qualifiers, two rising talents, England’s two highest rated women, the veteran John Nunn, and the former champion Jonathan Hawkins....
...Photographs: Christopher Nunn...
...Highlights include Trevor Nunn’s 1979 Macbeth with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen (January 9), a 1963 As You Like It with Vanessa Redgrave (January 19), Peter Brook’s austere King Lear with Paul Scofield (January...
...I put to him the theory of Dr John Nunn, my fellow chess grandmaster, that motivation – basically, enthusiasm for hard work – wanes after several years in the job....
...Apple’s first computer mouse and the Palm V handheld computer were among the breakthrough products claimed by Ideo. Its work foreshadowed the world of smartphones and social networks....
...Todd Roberson, Senior Lecturer of Finance, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Indianapolis, IN, US...
...Victoria and Albert Museum As last year, the V&A is acting as a central hub for the London Design Festival, with exhibitions, talks, a special iPod tour and even an interactive tapestry....
...I am trying to decide which one is better for the distance MBA.V....
...However, actual Equinox sales last month were still only half the level of Honda’s CR-V and several thousand units behind Toyota’s RAV4....
...Mine were Richard Burton, that fruitcake voice not yet heavily brandied, as Henry V at the Old Vic in the late 1950s; John Kane’s Puck sitting spotlit on the swing in Brook’s life-altering A Midsummer Night...
...“Nicholas Nickleby was a direct consequence of Trevor [Nunn] seeing The Pickwick Papers in Leningrad....
...“I am convinced that if somebody like Peter Hall or Ian McKellen or Trevor Nunn had decided this was a good idea it would have been built years ago, with government funding....
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