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Chess
Chess solutions
...Chess: 2287 (a) e3 (b) h1 (c) a8 and mate by 1 Qc8 (d) g7. However White arranges his three pieces, the BK always has a flight square at g8 or h7 Chess: 2286 (a) 1 . . . Kg3! and h5-h4-h3-h2 mate....
April 9, 2024
Chess
Indians shine at Candidates, but Russia’s Nepomniachtchi leads again
...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....
April 11, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Chess
Chess: generation battle as world title Candidates starts in Toronto
...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 and Gukesh D,...
April 2, 2024
Chess
Aged just eight, Bodhana Sivanandan enters chess history
...In the penultimate round, Sivanandan defeated an IM for the first time when she beat the England women’s coach Lorin D’Costa....
December 18, 2023
ReviewFilm
Maestro film review — Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein is electric and intelligent
...Though Maestro is the emotional panorama you’d expect from a life fully lived, the tempo is constantly brisk....
November 23, 2023
Chess
Lan Yao aims for international master title as funding boosts England women’s chess
...White combines an advance of the g pawn to weaken Black’s king with central pressure up the d file, plus tactical tricks at b5. Lan Yao’s instructive win combines all three themes....
September 11, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewAlbums
Bleachers — Jack Antonoff’s band blend New York indie-rock with Bruce Springsteen
...This jeu d’esprit pays tribute to Antonoff’s upbringing in New Jersey. (Springsteen himself turned up on the last Bleachers album.)...
March 6, 2024
FT MagazineImogen West-Knights
Bradley Cooper’s fake nose and the art of movie prosthetics
...The composer Leonard Bernstein had a big nose. Bradley Cooper, who is playing him in the upcoming film Maestro, also has a big nose, but not as big. So, for the film, he’s wearing a fake one....
August 24, 2023
ReviewMusic
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in a moving Mahler No 5 — review
...He said he’d be back. One wants and hopes to believe him. ★★★★★ sfsymphony.org...
January 29, 2024
ReviewDance
Slapstick and sexual politics at Suresnes Cités Danse — review
...Pantomime isn’t exactly the first thing you’d expect at a hip-hop festival....
January 16, 2024
Australasian prime property
Sydney’s waterfront homes ride the crest of an expensive wave
...“I’d been watching the prices of these houses rise from A$950,000 to A$1.1mn in 14 months. I missed out on two and I knew if I didn’t get one soon, I’d be priced out of the market,” she says....
March 28, 2024
How To Spend It In...
Martha Wainwright’s Montreal
...Rufus and I were wild teenagers, and this was the after-hours diner we’d come to for beer and latkes at 3am....
February 23, 2024
ObituaryChita Rivera
Chita Rivera, Broadway star, 1933-2024
...She learnt on the job, working with revered choreographers, lyricists and composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins....
February 3, 2024
Chess
New world champion Ding takes on elite in first test
...Ding began the Superbet Classic in Bucharest with two quiet draws, an hors d’oeuvre before his round three meeting with Nepomniachtchi....
May 9, 2023
ReviewBooks
The Village Voice: fist fights, gay rights and early battles with Trump
...Within an hour he’d decided to put the Voice up for sale. That wasn’t quite the end. The paper teetered on through several new owners....
February 6, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
The Aesthete
Michael Bargo talks taste
...It feels like something I’d really wanna live with, if I could. The place that means a lot to me is Paris....
April 12, 2024
Letter
Letter: Why no oil company boss will heed this FT leader
...Leonard Hyman Author: ‘America’s Electric Utilities: Past, Present and Future’Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
May 3, 2023
InterviewMusic
Conductor Elim Chan: ‘Hong Kong is special. It’s like the hardware is Chinese, but the software is British’
...But then, I’d have to kill you . . . ” Only a slight dimple gives her away. Concerts in London and Antwerp in February and in New York in March, elimchan.nl...
January 16, 2024
The Aesthete
Luisa Beccaria talks taste
...I also love Leonard Cohen, who wrote the most beautiful words for his songs. He is a true poet....
January 4, 2024
FT Asset Management
George Iacobescu’s footprint on London
...“I don’t think you’d ever know that it was him behind Litquidity, even if you met him or he told you point blank....
February 12, 2024
Dear JonathanJonathan Black
Can I start a business when I have MS?
...I’ve been working for a beer brand, which is the area I’d love to go into. Is it sensible or even feasible to work in start-ups — and especially alcohol start-ups — with MS?...
October 2, 2023
Inside Politics
Historic by-elections and the curious case of Tamworth
...It’s renewed my affection for the piece, and I’ve added an excellent recording by Leonard Bernstein to the Inside Politics playlist....
October 20, 2023
ReviewMusic
BBC Proms get under way with a concert of popular favourites — review
...Opening the recital with music as rarefied as an arrangement of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, made by Leonard Borwick, would have been risky if Grosvenor had not pitched volume and projection...
July 17, 2023
InterviewLunch with the FT
Canary Wharf’s George Iacobescu: ‘We didn’t build buildings. We built a city’
...Iacobescu pushed buttons to flash colourful lights that marked each of the crucial railway lines he’d campaigned for — including the Elizabeth Line....
February 9, 2024
Jo Ellison
The joy of the flop
...I’d sooner watch 10 films by Roman Polanski than a single Marvel film. (OK, that’s a slight untruth, because I love some Spider-Verse.)...
September 8, 2023

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