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...His son, also named Boris, talked about his father last year in a long and interesting interview for the World Chess Hall of Fame in St Louis, focusing on Spassky’s later life where he emigrated to France...
...Firouzja’s nadir came last month, when he performed poorly at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis and was in acute danger of losing his Candidates qualification based on rating....
...After more than half a century when Moscow was the hub of the chess universe, the new nexuses are St Louis, where the US Championship is in its closing stages and where the holder and world No 2 Fabiano...
...His 8/9 total was assessed as a performance rating of 2946, the highest of 2023 and not far off the top three in modern tournaments: Fabiano Caruana at St Louis 2014, Magnus Carlsen at Pearl Springs 2008...
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...His paintings include ash from the volcano that vented in 1971-72 on the island of St Vincent, a crisis experienced by members of his family....
...In the last decade St Louis has become the world’s most important chess centre, thanks to generous investment by FT reader Rex Sinquefield....
...The 30-year-old from Wenzhou, who defeated Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi after a tense and fluctuating match, is in Bucharest for the opening leg of the Grand Chess Tour, the creation of the St Louis billionaire...
...A new book, Making Economics Public, includes a chapter describing the Economy Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis....
...In the 1980s a talented professor first carried Savage’s legacy forward, Thomas Hall from St Louis, who summered on the island and was also a poet and zoologist....
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...Hans Niemann, 19, remains the centre of attention as the $262,000 US championship in St Louis passes half-way....
...The occasion was the Superbet Rapid and Blitz in Warsaw, part of the St Louis-organised Grand Chess Tour, so Carlsen, partly as a gesture to his hosts and partly to escape main line theory, opened as Black...
...Alireza Firouzja, who for many fans is the coming star of world chess at age 19, scooped both the Sinquefield Cup and the Grand Tour at St Louis on Sunday and collected over $270,000 in prize money....
...There were nearly 14,500 banks in 1984, according to the St Louis Fed’s blog. To compare, in 1985 the UK had 355 banks and 167 building-society mortgage lenders....
...St. Louis Fed president James Bullard will discuss the US economy and monetary policy at a Greater Jackson County Chamber lunch in Jackson, Tennessee....
...Niemann is due to play in the US Championship in St Louis, starting on October 4, an event for which he qualified by winning the 2021 US Junior....
...This aborted sequence followed the controversial incident between the pair earlier this month at the $350,000 Sinquefield Cup in St Louis....
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Louis....
...The estate’s former boathouse, right at the lake’s edge (and a healthy remove from the castle), has been redesigned as a plush one-bedroom grand suite, with Murano glass, Louis Icart drawings on the walls...
...“And I remember Spain,” wrote the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, the “tripper” in the rain in 1938 recalling “sherry, shellfish, omelettes . . . fretted stone the Moor/Had chiselled for effects of sun and shadow...
...Cleveland Fed president Loretta Mester is scheduled to make two appearances and St Louis Fed president James Bullard will discuss the US economy and monetary policy at a Greater Jackson County Chamber luncheon...
...According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the inventory-to-sales ratio (excluding autos) rose from 1.05 in June last year to 1.16 in June this year....
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