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....— Stocks that were no longer listed said “DEAD” in their titles.— These DEAD, delisted members lingered, corpse-like, until they either fell out of the top 10 or a five-year reset occurred.— Each bar was...
...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....
...It was also the bestselling LP Davis ever made, making this Black son of a dentist from East St Louis an exceptionally wealthy man, and one of the bestselling jazz albums of all time....
...A new US world champion to follow Bobby Fischer has long been an ambition of FT reader and St Louis benefactor Rex Sinquefield, and the tide of chess history has begun to flow in Sinquefield’s favour....
...Play at St Louis starts at 7.30pm BST daily, and can be watched free and live with grandmaster commentaries at uschesschamps.com. Puzzle 2541 White to move and win (by M Eisenstadt)....
...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...
...Ding did not even compete in the Asian Games, held in his home province, and has recently withdrawn from next month’s Sinquefield Cup at St Louis, an event which he won in 2019....
...The 14th-century church of St Michael’s in Framlingham, Suffolk, boasts an array of ornate tombs, including several Dukes of Norfolk and one Plantagenet princess....
...The 2023 US Senior Championship is currently just ending, with a mammoth $75,000 prize fund derived from FT reader Rex Sinquefield, whose generosity has in effect made St Louis the world’s global chess capital...
...Back in venal St Mark’s at Espace Louis Vuitton, in Je est un autre, 82-year-old French street artist/existentialist provocateur Ernest Pignon-Ernest, precursor of Banksy, displays exquisitely drawn torn...
...We promise we’re not jumping on the bandwagon and turning this site into AI‑phaville, but here’s a legitimately interesting working paper from the St Louis Federal Reserve on 2023’s hot topic....
...The allegations began after Niemann defeated Carlsen in a shock result at last year’s prestigious Sinquefield Cup in St Louis....
...A: Carly Fiorina In 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk added Technoking to his job title. What title did he award then-CFO Zach Kirkhorn?...
...In the last decade St Louis has become the world’s most important chess centre, thanks to generous investment by FT reader Rex Sinquefield....
...In 2008, Effron brought Handler and his co-head of technology banking at UBS, David St Jean, to Centerview as the firm’s first non-founder partners....
...UK wealth manager St James’s Place has appointed Mark FitzPatrick as CEO, replacing Andrew Croft....
...Dr Samuel Ross likes to use his title, an honorary one bestowed on him by the University of Westminster in 2021 for his success in fashion and design....
...Among the biggest controversies of Kronke’s tenure as a sports owner was his manoeuvre to relocate the Rams seven years ago from St Louis back to their original home in Los Angeles....
...His current schedule for 2023 also plans for only around 40, although it is possible that he will add the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, from which he withdrew in controversial circumstances last year following...
...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...
...This episode was produced by Zach St Louis. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Hans Niemann, 19, remains the centre of attention as the $262,000 US championship in St Louis passes half-way....
...Louis, is an unexpected bonus for its incipient global appeal....
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