Hints and tips:
...The puzzle was created by Raymond Smullyan in 1957. Chess 2394 1...Kh5 and 1...Kh3 both draw, but the game ended 1...Kf3?? 2 Nh4+! and Black resigned because of 2...Ke3 3 Rg3+!...
...Half the Cambridge team, including all three top boards, are from Trinity, which was also the No 1 college in the Raymond Keene years of the 1960s....
...Paul Raymond’s Soho is all but gone, but I think that he’d approve....
...“It’s more like chess — you’re trying to think a couple of moves ahead, but it plays out all in orbit . . ....
...Raymond Chandler’s “shop-soiled Sir Galahad”, as the writer called his hero, also enjoyed solving chess problems in the original stories....
...At home there were three sisters, competitive chess on the kitchen table, guitar playing in her room and precocious excellence in mathematics....
...Duchamp brought symbolism’s ironic melancholy to his cubist breakthrough, the gaslit “Portrait de joueurs d’échec” (1911): a chess game between his brothers Raymond and Jacques, their heads composed of overlapping...
...Reichardt’s story, co-scripted with regular collaborator John Raymond, gauchely metamorphoses from satirical thriller to saboteurs-fall-out melodrama....
...Wasn’t he the private dick who did Raymond Chandler’s dirty work back in the day? I looked at the book, a fancy hardback affair: The Black-Eyed Blonde, by some stiff called Benjamin Black....
...“He loved playing chess,” says Kagan, looking over the chunky, geometric pieces and recalling hours spent on the other side of the board....
...Our politicians are playing the chess game.”...
...We then shift back in time, and the central character is Eberhard Mock, a hardboiled detective reminiscent of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe....
...Unfortunately, Landsman, who happens to be the son of a chess prodigy, loathes the game....
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