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...Raine also advised both sides as Nassef Sawiris and Wesley Edens welcomed new investment from investment firm Atairos into V Sports, the owner of Aston Villa, just days before Ratcliffe struck his agreement...
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...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....
...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 2513 Michael Coenen v Philipp Lamby, Bundesliga 2022. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The quarter-finals of the chess.com Speed Championship include Nakamura v Levon Aronian at 2000 GMT on Monday December 12, Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana at 1800 GMT on Tuesday 13, and Wesley So v Maxime Vachier-Lagrave...
...Puzzle 2488 Nikita Vitiugov v Vladimir Kosyrev, Wroclaw 2014. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Puzzle 2490 Wesley So v Viktor Laznicka, New Delhi 2011. White to move and win. The current US champion’s queen looks in danger, with an extra threat to White’s f4 knight. How did So escape?...
...In the penultimate round, Wesley So had a winning position against Firouzja, but spoilt it and lost....
...Puzzle 2489 Gata Kamsky v Judit Polgar, Buenos Aires 1994. The all-time No1 woman was doubly threatened with immediate checkmate by 1 d8=Q mate or 1 Qf8 mate....
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...Royal v Koepke: 1 Qxh7+! Kxh7 2 Rh4+ Kg8 3 Rh8 mate. Chess 24941...Rg4+! 2 Kxg4 Qg2+ 3 Kh5 Qf3 mate. Chess 24931 Re8+! Rxe8 2 Qxg7+!...
...Puzzle 2470 Ding Liren v Xu Xiangyu, Hangzhou 2022. White to move and win....
...Puzzle 2467 Laszlo Szabo v Ludek Pachman, Marianske Lazne 1954. White to move and win. More than one move works, but White found the quickest route. Click here for solution...
...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...
...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?...
...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....
...Puzzle 2435 Zhao Hue v Julia Ryjanova, Shenzhen China v Australia, Fide online Olympiad 2021. White to move. How did she win Black’s apparently safe queen? Click here for solution...
...Before that, a semi-final is between top players from Russia and China, Vladislav Artemiev v Ding Liren....
...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....
...Now England is outside the top 10 countries. 2409 Wesley So v Magnus Carlsen, St Louis v Norway, online 2017....
...Games can be watched, free and live, every afternoon until Sunday March 21 (4pm GMT start). 2411 Wesley So v Magnus Carlsen, Paris 2016. Black to move. White threatens an immediate end by Qxe8 mate....
...Puzzle 2410 Nigel Short v Erik Blomqvist, Malmo 2017. White (Short) to move, has level material, while Black has a menacing back rank attack. What should the former world title challenger play?...
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