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...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....
...The opening is well worth a look as Tan secured easy equality with an unusual counter to the 2 c3 Sicilian, which is popular in English club chess and online games....
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...She tied for the English women’s open blitz title at seven, and was second in the UK women’s open blitz at eight....
...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+!...
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...The critical game was an unusual reversed Queen’s Gambit, a sharp opening line that Ju had prepared in depth beforehand and eventually gave her a material balance of two knights for a rook and pawn....
...Rooks had already roosted, leaving us with the call of a single cuckoo, and the drone of a motorbike climbing up the valley....
...The English one filled with glorious architecture built centuries ago? Or the German one that was rebuilt as the motor car was rising to dominance?...
...It was fuelled by the supply of packages from the Red Cross, the contents of which were then traded: the Sikh prisoners didn’t want razor blades or beef, the French were desperate for coffee, the English...
...Sponsoring individual English players has a good history. Decades ago there was backing for Nigel Short, Howell and McShane as they advanced to the top....
...At age 13, Shreyas Royal set the record for the youngest English GM norm in Germany last year....
...Adams and Short, the two all-time greats of English chess whose achievements in a more competitive era have outpaced the 19th-century icons Howard Staunton and Joseph Blackburne, made the difference as their...
...Shelly Lin, an English teacher at a high school in Dongxing, Guangxi, says the deterioration in learning during the lockdown is obvious....
...The men include Joe Gallagher, a former British champion who now represents Switzerland, and Ravi Haria, the rising star of English chess, but some of their colleagues are less well known....
...Haria’s best win, against the Hungarian top seed, showed the power of two rooks on the seventh, also known as raging rooks, as they caught the white king in a mating net....
...Rook [inaudible] . . . Oh my gosh. He put it on the worst square. The worst possible square because the rook can’t block . . . Lilah RaptopoulosThey’re mad (laughter)....
...She has spent the day shooting a Disney film, Cruella, out in the English countryside, but I have given up trying to work out what number movie this is in her long and varied career....
...The English co-winner was Danny Gormally, the North-East master who has few major opportunities in competition with the national Olympiad team....
...His opponent, needing a win, decided to go hungry and spent two hours seeking a way for his rook, two knights and pawn to defeat White’s queen and bishop....
...“It needs time, but I’m very enthusiastic,” says Marisa Vázquez-Shelly, the Teatro Real’s director of private sponsorship. “Little by little, it’s growing.”...
...There is a reason why it is easier to collect statistics in a rich country than a poor one, and why fluent speakers of English are more likely to fill in the UK census form....
...“My whole family was murdered,” says Michael chirpily to a fellow juror, the chilly English beauty Michelle (Janet Montgomery)....
...White is two rooks and two knights up, the black king has no moves, and there is just a single forced line of play — but can you find it? Click here for solution...
...Malcolm Pein, the English Chess Federation’s delegate, even stood as Makropoulos’s running mate. For Pein, bigger issues were at stake....
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