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...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...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 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...In Paris, the city is backcloth for the mind’s search for itself in Marcel Proust, A Parisian Novel, launched this week at the Musée Carnavalet....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...Last year, Taillevent’s owners hired chef David Bizet from the Four Seasons’ George V to reinvent and modernise the menu....
...Whither China’s king of debt Hui Ka Yan All eyes are on China Evergrande chairman Hui Ka Yan to see how he puts to use his $100bn pile of debt over the next year....
...DESIGNJUNCTION King’s Cross Part trade show, part interactive public art display, designjunction spreads out over a series of sites in King’s Cross....
...No fascist USA.”...
...Victoria and Albert Museum As the festival’s official hub, the V&A will host talks about the future of design and a series of installations....
...Martin Weale, professor, King’s College London I expect growth of 1.7 per cent....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Apocalyptic lyrics about a “crucified USA” won’t win friends on American rock radio....
...He travelled the world by ocean liner, amazed the King of Siam and was briefly imprisoned in Korea in 1925....
...Ornate sets, with pieces stretching to two feet in height, can cost up to £20,000 but Bonhams offers more modest examples, including a Cantonese set made around 1810, with the king depicted as King George...
...This is already permitted in both Eire and the USA....
...The story is woven around the riots that erupted the night Martin Luther King was killed by a sniper’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968....
...Michael V....
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