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...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...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 2564 Mateusz Bartel v Gergely Szabo, Hungarian teams 2017. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2531 Harry Grieve v Dan Fernandez, British Championship, Leicester 2023. At a glance, the position looks complex. Can you find White’s winning move? Click here for solution...
...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Puzzle 2509 Carel van den Berg v Erich Eliskases, Beverwijk 1959. White to move and win. In the actual game, the Dutch international master missed the decisive move and lost eight moves later....
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...Early last summer, Adam Yedidia took Sam Bankman-Fried to one side after a game of paddle tennis....
...Puzzle 2502 Kirill Alekseenko v Karen Grigoryan, Sunway Sitges 2022. White to move and win. The Russian, playing under the neutral Fide flag, went on to take first prize. Click here for solution...
...Sandals, model’s own Angel wears Off-White cotton trousers, POA....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...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...
...superior class told in what proved to be a close race with the USA’s squad of Soviet-trained ex-Russians....
...But in the USA v USSR match in New York Averbakh arrived late for one of his games against Donald Byrne, lost their mini-match 3-1, incurred the wrath of his captain Igor Bondarevsky, and was removed from...
...Polls suggest that Catherine Cortez Masto, a Hispanic Democratic senator from Nevada, might be about to lose to Adam Laxalt — a staunchly Trumpian, white Republican — even though Hispanics are a large share...
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Puzzle 2478 Magnus Carlsen v Bu Xiangzhi, Biel 2007. White to move and win. How did the future world champion induce immediate resignation? Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2474 Elisabeth Paehtz v Mahri Geldiyeva, Baku 2016. White to move and force checkmate. Germany’s best woman player (White, to move) has the black king trapped on the board edge....
...Their six games were halved, including Adams v McShane and a lively draw between McShane and the new German star Vincent Keymer, 17. No Russians took part....
...England, led by Michael Adams and Nigel Short, are the top seeds. Puzzle 2473 Vishy Anand v Shak Mamedyarov, Stavanger 2022. Anand (White) has just played Qd3-b5, What happened next?...
...Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.” Republican leaders largely embraced the ruling on Friday....
...She visited the White House to suggest conservative appointees to President Trump....
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