Life
Will my inner party animal roar back to life?
According to a front-page story in the Times earlier this week, your personality does change over the course of your…
The Battle for Britain
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Blazing Sadler
Matthew Sadler’s retirement from full-time international chess is one of the great losses to the British game. Occasionally, the one-time…
no. 445
Black to play. This position is from Morozevich-Sadler, Reykjavik 1999, a game from Sadler’s heydey, when he was regularly beating…
You’re toast
In Competition No. 2986 you were invited to submit a poem about a deadly foodstuff. My inspiration for this…
Dear Mary
Q. I’ve listened to the radio to deal with insomnia for years (Dear Mary, 18 February) and your suggestion of…
Cats and clarets
Call me a sentimental old whatever, but watching a four-year old hearing The Tale of Samuel Whiskers for the first…
High life
From my chalet high up above the village, I look up at the immense, glistening mountain range of the Alps,…
Low life
I stepped off the train in Barcelona at 7.30 in the evening and followed directions to the hostel. The February…
Low life
I stepped off the train in Barcelona at 7.30 in the evening and followed directions to the hostel. The February…
Curry favour
The number of things I don’t know is infinite — or infinite minus one, if such as number exists, since…
Real life
Unexpectedly re-available is a very good phrase. I have often seen it applied to house advertisements and thought how fabulously…
Will my inner party animal roar back to life?
According to a front-page story in the Times earlier this week, your personality does change over the course of your…
Will my inner party animal roar back to life?
According to a front-page story in the Times earlier this week, your personality does change over the course of your…
Thank God for overpriced lawyers!
When you buy a house in Britain, there is an extensive and well-established series of checks you must perform to…
Bridge
If there’s one tournament I’d really like to play in, it’s the Cavendish in Monaco, the largest money bridge tournament…
Bridge
What can be more regrettable than picking up a huge hand and landing in the wrong contract? It happened…
The Battle fo Britain
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Cui Bono
The cause célèbre at the Tradewise tournament in Gibraltar, which finished earlier this month, was the extraordinary protest by Hou…
no. 444
White to play. This position is a variation from Hou Yifan-Ju, Gibraltar 2017. Hou lost this game to her compatriot.…
Trigger point
In Competition No. 2985 you were invited to provide a poetic preview of the day Article 50 is triggered. …
2297: Thoroughly
Each of nine clues contains a misprinted letter in the definition part. Corrections of misprints spell a two-word phrase. Clues…
to 2294: Times Square
Perimeter words are names of the most recent GEOLOGICAL PERIODS. First prize J.P Green, Uppingham, RutlandRunners-up Paul Jenkinson, Zollikon, Switzerland;…
Dear Mary
Q. My husband and I like to go to concerts and recitals but he is an artist with a very…
American English
Ralph’s Coffee & Bar is in the Polo Ralph Lauren flagship store on Regent Street. It is rare that fashion…
