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...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....
...Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European parliament’s rapporteur on Turkey, said the judicial dispute “opens an unprecedented institutional crisis and confirms all concerns about Turkey’s judiciary expressed for...
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Now read these Comeback kid: Pedro Sánchez was confirmed as Spain’s prime minister yesterday, despite protests against the amnesty that earned him the votes....
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Michael Adams totalled an impressive 8/9 on top board with a performance rating of 2761....
...News to start: The European Commission has acknowledged “serious concerns” about an amnesty for Catalan separatists being negotiated to enable Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez to stay in power...
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...However, in the boom years of the 1970s to 1990s the very best talents Nigel Short and Michael Adams both preferred to bypass university....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...And in Spain, five deputies of the Podemos party broke away from Sumar, a leftist alliance that forms part of the coalition government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez....
...The political mess could also mean a resurgence for the Catalan separatist movement, which is being courted by acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez as a way to maintain his grip on power....
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Stylist’s assistant, Léa Sanchez. Production, Elsa Puangsudrac at Farago Projects...
...Pressure has mounted for the return of objects that are seen to be an important part of the identity of countries in Africa and beyond, such as the Ethiopian treasures in the V&A or the Benin Bronzes scattered...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...Photographer’s assistant, Adam Storm. Stylist’s assistant, Jordan Renou Rohel. Production, SW Studio Paris...
...If you think the political situation in the US now looks terrible, Adam Hochschild is here to remind you that things have previously been much worse....
...Michael Adams, now 51, and Nigel Short, now 57, challenged for world titles in their peak years, and both legends were key performers in June when England fought off a strong US challenge to win the world...
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
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