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...Chess 24341 d4 2 d5 3 d6 4 dxc7 5 dxb8=R! 6 Rxb7 7 Rxd7 8 Rxd8 mate. Chess 24331 h4! Bc1 (other bishop moves are no better) 2 Qxg6!...
...Now he is a frontrunner, who was joint leader with 17-year-old Gukesh D (India) on 4/6, ahead of the favourite Fabiano Caruana (US) and Praggnanandhaa R (India) on 3.5....
...battle between the trio of Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura (US) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) in their thirties, and the under-21 group of Alireza Firouzja (France) and the Indians Praggnanandhaa R...
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...Christopher R MundySt Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...Spanish designer Andreu Carulla works with Desa’s on-site R&D workshop, producing roly-poly stools from recycled Styrofoam....
...There are longtime fixtures like Espasso and R & Company, which now spans two incredible spaces. (I’m especially excited about its current exhibition on female California designers.)...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Michael Lamach, the former CEO and chair of Trane Technologies, as an operating adviser to CD&R funds....
.../ From Ted Gaffney, Waterford, CT, US A tie manufacturer gives the FT a dressing-down / From Christopher R Mundy, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...“The Fed is not in the business to buoy equity valuations or crypto or Spacs,” said John Leonard, global head of equities at Macquarie Asset Management....
...The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflictby Mark Leonard, Bantam Press £18.99/$36.95 Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has written a book that has the twin merits...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired former Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs Anand Shah as an operating adviser to CD&R funds....
...CD&R has indicated it is considering raising its takeover offer to £10.80 a share, UDG said....
...Research from Sage suggests they have an R rate well below one....
...when 3 b8=Q or 2 b8=R draw by stalemate, 3 b8=B cannot win with two dark-squared bishops, and 3 b8=N+ Kb7 draws. Chess: 2314 1 Kd3! If Kf5 2 Kd4 mate, or Kd5 2 Qd4 mate....
...It is one of the great late-career runs of albums, to put alongside Johnny Cash’s or Leonard Cohen’s, even if the notion of Jones the artist might still seem odd to those who can only visualise him under...
...Mundy, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...TPG and Leonard Green & Partners stand to see their existing stakes all but wiped out....
...The investment is so key to US electric vehicle ambitions that Wilbur Ross, the US secretary of commerce, visited the site last year to pick up a shovel for the groundbreaking ceremony....
...West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039: Kallirroi Kapetanaki, Luxembourg Crossword 16,266: Wilbur...
...Co-written by Wilbur Smith and Chris Wakling, the novel ties in to Smith’s Courtney family saga, which spans more than 20 of his adult works of fiction....
...Its eclectic score draws on everything from hip-hop and R’n’B to Broadway show tune traditions....
...Its R&D spending of Rmb101.5bn ($14.37bn) was equal to 14.1 per cent of its revenues last year. The company has invested more than Rmb480bn in R&D in the past 10 years, Huawei data show....
...Don’t miss US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross tells the FT he is “optimistic” on US-China trade talks....
...We’re talking about the likes of Leonard Green, Silver Lake and Bridgepoint, to name a few....
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