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...Various alternative solutions to the dance episodes have been tried in recent years, but nobody else has thought of using circus performers....
...Puzzle 2556 Kristina Brankov v Maria Manakova, Serbian League 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2552 Keres v Laszlo Szabo, Budapest 1955. White to move and win. How did Keres defeat the top Hungarian player of his time? Click here for solution...
...“A good tartan is the solution to everything,” writes Trisha Telep in The Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance, a compilation of mythical and magical stories....
...Puzzle 2506 Eltaj Safarli v Nils Grandelius, Dubai 2015. White to move and win. His method of breaking down Black’s seemingly solid defence is a technique worth remembering. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2498 Gyula Breyer v Kornel Havasi, Budapest 1918. White to move and win. Both kings are exposed, but White can strike first. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2488 Nikita Vitiugov v Vladimir Kosyrev, Wroclaw 2014. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Alexander Parkes, who mixed camphor and nitrocellulose to make solid mouldable sheets, exhibited knife handles made of his new material, branded Parkesine, at the International Exhibition of 1862....
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...Puzzle 2461 Alexander Areshchenko v Zbynek Hracek, Minsk 2017. Whito to move and win. It seems right for this week’s puzzle to be a Ukrainian victory....
...Puzzle 2441 Maxim Rodshtein v Michael Adams, Bundesliga 2016. Black to move and win. The England No1’s raging rooks found the fastest way to end the game. Click here for solution...
...“Something about the deeply flawed American character seems to embrace the apocalyptic as solution,” Mann writes....
...Puzzle 2423 Wei Yi v Tigran L Petrosian, China v Armenia, Pro Chess League 2020. Find White’s surprise winning move. Click here for solution...
...In my wardrobe-cum-stockroom, certain systems and solutions have fallen into place over time....
...Lockdown could turn out to be one of the most creative times for humankind, says Ms Mann, author of The Science of Boredom....
...Moira O’Neill has a solution — a five-day business education programme for her children that will hopefully pay dividends....
...Happily, Wong had another solution....
...The cardi was something plucked out in desperation for a sleeveless dress catastrophe, or shoved into a tote as a reluctant solution for warding off nippiness....
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