Title Max and Pawn of Clanton #1 | Search

Accessibility help Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer

Showing results for Title Max and Pawn of Clanton #1

Sort by

Viewing results 1‒25 of 197

Chess
Chess: the forgotten world title challenger Salo Flohr
...(correct was Nfd7) enabled him to simply and systematically weaken, attack and capture Black’s a5 pawn, after which the outcome was slow but sure. Would Flohr have won the world title from Alekhine?...
January 22, 2024
Chess
Government’s £500k chess stimulus tests England’s elite talents
...White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn. Fedoseev is a strong grandmaster, but did not know the drawing trick for this and similar positions. What should White play?...
March 27, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Chess
Aged just eight, Bodhana Sivanandan enters chess history
...One of the IM’s black pawns was at h2, and the white bishop was at h1, giving the legal possibility of WK f3 and WB e4 vs BK h1 and BP h2 where 1 Kf2 is mate....
December 18, 2023
Chess
Carlsen wins at Freestyle Chess amid ambitious plans
...Carlsen survived, and went on to defeat Fabiano Caruana in the final. The pairing, a repeat of their 2018 title match, had a dramatic start as Carlsen opened 1 g2-g4!...
February 20, 2024
James Max
Rich People’s Problems: The best things in life are anything but free
...James Max is a broadcaster on TV and radio and a property expert. The views expressed are personal. X, Instagram & Threads @thejamesmax...
November 22, 2023
The Art Market
Sotheby’s set to make record for Surrealist Leonora Carrington
...Sotheby’s sales on April 5 made a total HK$673mn including fees ($86mn), below estimate and nearly half of the 2023 equivalent of HK$1.1bn....
April 18, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
The Big Read
Telegram: social media giant or the new ‘dark web’?
...Additional reporting by Max Harlow in London and Raya Jalabi in Beirut...
March 12, 2024
Chess
England over-50s retain European title, but US are favourites for world crown
...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....
July 25, 2023
Chess
US Championship start sparks Bobby Fischer memories
...Fischer first won the crown at age 14 in 1957-58, scored a “picket fence” perfect 11 out of 11 in 1963-64, and won all the eight titles he contested, always finishing at least one point clear of his nearest...
October 9, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: Koch-backed group drops funding for Nikki Haley
...Five more top stories 1....
February 26, 2024
HTSIThe top 12 HTSI stories of 2023
The very stealthy success of The Row
...Both Mary-Kate and Ashley are the creative directors, and always have been, and it grates that some still doubt their skills. “The Row hasn’t changed regardless of any titles,” shrugs Mary-Kate....
November 17, 2023
Chess
Chess: Poisoned pawn traps So’s queen
...Then, in an equal position in the fourth game, So abruptly grabbed a poisoned pawn, and two moves later his queen was trapped and lost deep in hostile territory....
March 28, 2023
The Art Market
Christie’s launches buy now, pay later scheme for art up to $1mn
...Levai says the title of the Venice show, Starting Again, refers to the artist’s process and in no way relates to his own experience at Marlborough Gallery, which was co-founded by his father’s uncle, Frank...
April 11, 2024
Chess
Test your skills on three classic endgames
...No 2524, White to move and win, by the Czech composer Josef Moravec, looks trivial at first sight. Surely White wins immediately by 1 Rd8+ Kxd8 2 b7 and the pawn queens?...
June 12, 2023
Chess
Carlsen loses with the Polish Defence to a Pole in Warsaw
...with the Polish Defence 1 d4 b5....
May 22, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Chess
New world champion Ding takes on elite in first test
...seems destined to become more popular at all levels of the game. Play at Bucharest continues until Monday May 15, and can be watched free and live (1.30pm BST start) on major chess websites....
May 9, 2023
FT Globetrotter
My top 10: Ariella Budick’s guide to MoMA
...Despite its perkiness, this is a dark painting: the title (and one of the images) refers to the fighter-bomber designed to wreak havoc in Vietnam....
February 21, 2024
Chess
Ding Liren captures world crown after dramatic tie-break
...its seven decisive games contrasted so sharply with Carlsen’s glut of draws in his 2016 and 2018 title defences that the majority of chess fans were won over....
May 1, 2023
Special ReportThe Business of Formula One
F1 team valuations continue to rise
...The teams received more than $1.1bn in 2022 as a whole, up from $919mn in 2017, which was Liberty’s first year of ownership. The debate, now, is whether to expand....
November 24, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
Melbourne in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...Man Ray and Max Ernst....
February 5, 2024
Travel
The unstoppable power of ‘Harry Pottourism’
...And in perpetuity is what we could be facing with the franchise. There’s a new 10-year Max TV series, with JK Rowling as an executive producer, getting under way....
March 30, 2024
Chess
Your chance to enter the Winton British Solving Championship
...Arkell is a previous winner, while for Chapman, who floated his company in the dotcom boom and who held Garry Kasparov to 1.5-2.5 in a 2001 match at odds of two pawns and the move, Acqui Terme 2023 was his...
June 5, 2023
Inside BusinessAnna Nicolaou
The damning verdict of viewers on US cable TV
...These documents are sometimes specific, and often ultra competitive, with each channel trying to claim the title of “most-watched” on cable....
August 24, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
What’s on in Milan: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to 2024
...Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will be defending his title, though all eyes will be on the drivers in red — and Britain’s Lewis Hamilton, who surprised the racing world in February when news leaked that he would...
February 9, 2024
Chess
Britain’s route to grandmaster for rising chess talents
...White to move and win. Pert, the 2021 British champion, has a mighty d7 pawn, but the obvious 1 Rh8+ Ke7 2 Re1+ is stopped by 2 . . . Re6. Instead, a subtle two-move sequence won for White....
January 17, 2023

Previous pagePage 1 of 8Next page