Hints and tips:
...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....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...One important wider role for the match has been to produce future England internationals, including John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman who both reached the world top 10....
...Puzzle 2497 Alistair Hill v Kayden Troff, Abu Dhabi 2016. White to move. How did the English amateur checkmate the US grandmaster? Click here for solution...
...He is at home on the island; a smiley, wiry firecracker about to turn 61, he speaks for hours with the pep of a 20-year-old, even while fending off bronchitis....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...Nunn otherwise scored 6.5/7 and won the top board medal despite his default....
...England over-65s, headed by John Nunn, are second seeds behind Israel, whose lower boards are strong....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...And has there ever been a more banal symbol than the yellow smiley face of rave culture?...
...In that year the England No1 Michael Adams reaches age 50 and becomes eligible along with Nigel Short; while John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman, both Olympiad silver medallists, pass 65....
...Before that there was an interesting preliminary round involving two qualifiers, two rising talents, England’s two highest rated women, the veteran John Nunn, and the former champion Jonathan Hawkins....
...Surrounded by shiny apartment towers, the plazas are almost spookily spotless: clipped lawns, croony French music, a smiley-face toy-town police van....
...Smiley and quick to laugh, she is unable to describe why she chooses certain objects over others, except to say that “everything has a possibility for the future”....
...Photographs: Christopher Nunn...
...Dozens of Google’s pod-like car prototypes, with their rooftop sensors and smiley headlights, trundle around the Silicon Valley town every day....
...Highlights include Trevor Nunn’s 1979 Macbeth with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen (January 9), a 1963 As You Like It with Vanessa Redgrave (January 19), Peter Brook’s austere King Lear with Paul Scofield (January...
...The quote is lifted from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, a prescient graphic novel about the rise of the security state in the face of terror; typically for Banksy, it is a piece of second-hand pseudo-wisdom...
...I put to him the theory of Dr John Nunn, my fellow chess grandmaster, that motivation – basically, enthusiasm for hard work – wanes after several years in the job....
...But there is still time to live the “V Dub dream”....
...At this rate, Google will be posting news of its exit with a few “lol”s and a smiley on Twitter....
...Victoria and Albert Museum As last year, the V&A is acting as a central hub for the London Design Festival, with exhibitions, talks, a special iPod tour and even an interactive tapestry....
...Mine were Richard Burton, that fruitcake voice not yet heavily brandied, as Henry V at the Old Vic in the late 1950s; John Kane’s Puck sitting spotlit on the swing in Brook’s life-altering A Midsummer Night...
...Fact v fantasy: How farfetched is it? “If you believe in spooks, clap your hands.”...
...Damian says I may be giving too much of myself and that it’s tweets not twits :-) See my smiley face. SourcesclosetoGordon@No10: Smith is for the chop. Gordonstayingput@No10: Followers 1,765....
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