Hints and tips:
...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 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...One important wider role for the match has been to produce future England internationals, including John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman who both reached the world top 10....
...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...
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...Nunn otherwise scored 6.5/7 and won the top board medal despite his default....
...England over-65s, headed by John Nunn, are second seeds behind Israel, whose lower boards are strong....
...In that year the England No1 Michael Adams reaches age 50 and becomes eligible along with Nigel Short; while John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman, both Olympiad silver medallists, pass 65....
...Before that there was an interesting preliminary round involving two qualifiers, two rising talents, England’s two highest rated women, the veteran John Nunn, and the former champion Jonathan Hawkins....
...Photographs: Christopher Nunn...
...Highlights include Trevor Nunn’s 1979 Macbeth with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen (January 9), a 1963 As You Like It with Vanessa Redgrave (January 19), Peter Brook’s austere King Lear with Paul Scofield (January...
...S Solomon Raj Mumbai, India Rtd Deputy Managing Director, State Bank of India … Letter in response: Regulatory push drives disclosure on bank clients / From Nigel Wilkins...
...I put to him the theory of Dr John Nunn, my fellow chess grandmaster, that motivation – basically, enthusiasm for hard work – wanes after several years in the job....
...California drive time Grand Theft Auto V from series creators Rockstar North is launched for video gamers using Xbox 360 and PlayStation3....
...Ever the engineering patriot, he strokes some Bowers & Wilkins speakers, made in Britain, before sitting on a sofa with a mere nine cushions....
...My mother Trudie, in shock, railed at my pa for his commercial failings, invoking Wilkins Micawber a good deal....
...Its files contain claims that he was “extremely vehement” in defending Alan Nunn May, an acquaintance and convicted atom spy, during a conversation with a junior MI5 agent in 1946....
...Victoria and Albert Museum As last year, the V&A is acting as a central hub for the London Design Festival, with exhibitions, talks, a special iPod tour and even an interactive tapestry....
...The manipulative Henry V was no longer quite the hero that Laurence Olivier had portrayed in his patriotic 1944 film....
...Mine were Richard Burton, that fruitcake voice not yet heavily brandied, as Henry V at the Old Vic in the late 1950s; John Kane’s Puck sitting spotlit on the swing in Brook’s life-altering A Midsummer Night...
...“Nicholas Nickleby was a direct consequence of Trevor [Nunn] seeing The Pickwick Papers in Leningrad....
...It recently designed a Sun newspaper feature showing Gordon Brown giving a Churchillesque “V” sign to the electorate over calls for a referendum on the European Union treaty....
...“Sales are down as the price goes up,” says V. Govindraj of Tanishq, India’s largest jewellery chain, in Bangalore....
...fraternity remains relatively small, with famous names including Colin Reid (ruggedly organic pieces resembling rocks), Bruno Romanelli (incorporating casts of body parts and so comparatively figurative), Neil Wilkin...
...Chris Wilkins, Lutterworth Michael Owen: Pension Term Assurance was withdrawn on 6 December having only been reintroduced in April this year....
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