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...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...(b) Any black king move allows Rd6 mate, Rd8 mate, or Ng7+ forking king and rook, so Black had to play Rxf5 2 Kxf5 a4 3 Re2+ Kd7 4 Rd2+ with a draw. (c) Where does the king go, Yasser?...
...The second American Cup, a $200,000 event at St Louis for the top US grandmasters, ended suddenly on Sunday evening after Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So had each won a match and were deadlocked at 1.5 points...
...How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king? Click here for solution *Correction: the article originally stated the Olympiad would start on Friday at 12.30 BST....
...Content is king Streaming services’ insatiable appetite for documentaries has led to a deluge of content....
...You always have to respect the adversary,” General Wesley Clarke, a former supreme Nato commander, said. Russia is reportedly already sending in more troops....
...You always have to respect the adversary,” General Wesley Clark, a former supreme Nato commander, said. Russia is reportedly sending in more troops....
...It weakens the white king on two diagonals, and deprives White’s g1 knight of its normal developing square....
...The German composer was known as “the riddle king” for his ingenious concepts. Click here for solution...
...Magnus Carlsen has had several setbacks since the world champion’s 30th birthday celebration in November on a beach in the Seychelles coincided with his losing to America's No2 Wesley So in an online final...
...Only two lines of play, but still tricky from America's “Puzzle King”. Click here for solution...
...The final of the $100,000 Skilling Open last Monday coincided, perhaps intentionally, with the Norwegian’s 30th birthday, but Wesley So proved the spoiler....
...On Monday, Donnie King, chief operating officer at Tyson Foods, the largest US meat processor, said “it’s been taking us about six days to do five days’ worth of work because of turnover and absenteeism”...
...Morris on ESPN's The Last Dance https://www.nytimes.com/article/the-last-dance-jordan.html –(More Wesley Morris content) Still Processing dissects Tiger King: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/podcasts...
...Quick hits OTHER FT STORIES THAT HAVE CAUGHT MY EYE THIS WEEK If you want to know why protests are spreading in Thailand, you have to read this piece by our Bangkok correspondent about the king and his...
...Magnus Carlsen suffered the worst defeat of his career last week as Norway’s world champion was crushed by Wesley So of the US in the first official title contest in Fischer Random....
...The black king has no moves, but White needs a precise choice . . . Click here for solution...
...Fred Wesley’s New J.B.s! sound remarkably like Fred Wesley’s old J.B.s!: a tight road-tested band giving hardcore funk an authoritative jazz twist....
...Colin Powell, Wesley Clark and David Petraeus have either tried or been touted for high office....
...Thus the Henrician Reformation was driven by more than a king’s determination to have a new wife and a male heir....
...When I was at Plymouth, one day in training I shot well wide, and Barry Hayles [a veteran striker] said: ‘F**king hell, Cherno. That’s not why I bought you in Championship Manager.’...
...Because the poet is with the kings and emperors but they’re just the minstrels . . . the lyrics are refrain . . . And no wise king wants to hear something repeated in his ear.”...
...But the theory was turned on its head following a groundbreaking study led by Dr Gideon Lack, a professor at King’s College London....
...Raymond Chandler did not publish his first novel, The Big Sleep until he was 51; Mary Wesley debuted with The Camomile Lawn at 71....
...It became very important [but] got a little out of hand with the Burger Kings and McDonald’s [tie-ins]— it began to look as if people were making product films. It imploded.”...
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