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Chess solutions
...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+!...
April 9, 2024
Chess
Government’s £500k chess stimulus tests England’s elite talents
...Her total of three out of nine, six draws and three losses, was slightly below par, but included two missed wins caused by moving too quickly in rook endgames which are normally her strength....
March 27, 2024
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
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Chess: Nakamura surges, but Nepomniachtchi still leads Candidates as final rounds near
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
April 18, 2024
Chess
Memories of the legendary Paul Keres
...Puzzle 2552 Keres v Laszlo Szabo, Budapest 1955. White to move and win. How did Keres defeat the top Hungarian player of his time? Click here for solution...
December 27, 2023
Chess
Magnus Carlsen wins another two world championships
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
January 2, 2024
Chess
Chess: English amateur defeats Ukrainian champion in style
...bringing a second rook into the attack at h3, and the final assault by White’s queen and rook. Black resigned due to 41 . . . Qg6 42 Qe7+ Qf7 43 Rh7+!...
March 6, 2023
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The art of making good mistakes
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, “The Truth Detective” (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
September 15, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
What I’d put in my Museum of the Economy
...Tim Harford’s children’s book, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
July 14, 2023
Chess
Carlsen loses with the Polish Defence to a Pole in Warsaw
...After Wojtaszek opened up the c file for his rooks and his queen broke into the defences via the long black diagonal, Carlsen’s position collapsed....
May 22, 2023
Chess
Ding Liren captures world crown after dramatic tie-break
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
May 1, 2023
Chess
Chess: Fide raises profile of women’s game with Grand Prix
...She moved her bishop from c1 to f4, reckoning that Black rook at e4 could not take it because of Re1-e8 mate....
February 6, 2023
Chess
Shreyas Royal, 13, breaks UK record for youngest ever grandmaster result
...Puzzle 2495 Lucas van Foreest v Evgeny Bareev, Wijk aan Zee 2019. White to move and win. White is material up, while Black seems to have counterplay with queen and rook....
November 14, 2022
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Lockdowns are over. WFH isn’t. Why?
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
February 24, 2023
Chess
England seniors win three world titles while Nepo races clear in Candidates
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
June 30, 2022
Chess
Chess: Carlsen closes in at Wijk while women’s team lead Battle of the Sexes
...Levon Aronian v Loek van Wely, Tata Steel Wijk 2014. Puzzle-find Black’s winning move....
January 27, 2022
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Eventful British Women’s Championship breaks 1948 record
...Puzzle 2441 Maxim Rodshtein v Michael Adams, Bundesliga 2016. Black to move and win. The England No1’s raging rooks found the fastest way to end the game. Click here for solution...
October 19, 2021
Chess
Carlsen grinds to victory in Norway while Firouzja, 18, surges into world top 10
...A Carlsen v Firouzja series for the global crown in around 2025 is already a plausible forecast....
September 20, 2021
Chess
Watch the power of the queen-knight duo in this useful opening trap
...Puzzle 2423 Wei Yi v Tigran L Petrosian, China v Armenia, Pro Chess League 2020. Find White’s surprise winning move. Click here for solution...
June 14, 2021
FT Magazine
Enter the inner sanctum of elite chess
...Now here’s what could happen if that rook were to come to a3....
July 28, 2022
Chess
All-time No1 Garry Kasparov, 58, loses in seven moves in disastrous comeback
...Puzzle 2427 Mamedyarov v Kasparov, final position. Black to move....
July 13, 2021
Chess
Chess: a rook and two pawns each but what is White’s winning move?
...Carlsen v Dubov is the highlight match in the Airthings quarter-final on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week....
December 29, 2020
Chess
Chess: Guildford, unbeaten for eight years, find the strongest ever Eurocup a bridge too far
...Andrey Episenko, 19, who beat world champion Carlsen at Wijk in January, sacrificed rook and knight en route to a 21-move mating attack against France’s No2....
April 1, 2021
Chess
Chess: Carlsen beaten again and misses first place for sixth tournament in a row
...(Spoiler: 1...Qb1+ 2 Qf1 Rh1+ doesn’t work because White can take the h1 rook with the e4 bishop). Click here for solution...
March 23, 2021
Chess
Carlsen wins again, but 17-year-old Firouzja steals the show
...To make it still worse, Carlsen had remarked before the game how he had lost twice in rook endings to Aronian, and, sure enough, a fatal rook endgame error again ensured his fate....
October 19, 2020
Chess
Chess: Find the move that defeated a world champion
...Puzzle 2392 Santosh Vidit v Vlad Kramnik, Leiden 2019. White (to play) is a pawn down with his f7 rook attacked. What was his winning move which defeated Russia's ex-world champion?...
November 2, 2020

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