Meditation Cushions (May 2015) from I Was Never Good at Yoga. Contemporary photographer Polly Penrose’s self portraits — all taken on a 10 second self timer — aren’t premeditated. “Often I’ve never seen the location before, and I never enter a space with an idea of a finished picture”, she says. Photo: Polly Penrose.
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The cover of the April 2016 issue of 50 Moves magazine was a once-in-a-lifetime shot of four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán). |
On the afternoon of Thursday, April 28, 2016 four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) was awarded the “May 4th Medal” — the highest honour for students in Peking University, awarded to no more than 10 students every two years — in a solemn ceremony held at Peking University’s 英杰 (Yīngjié) Exchange Centre Sunshine Hall. Photos: 李香花 (Lǐ Xiānghuā)/Peking University. |
Blue Yoga Mats (May 2015) from I Was Never Good at Yoga
Photographer Polly Penrose capturing herself “making sculptural forms out of the interaction between the objects and my body”. Photo: Polly Penrose. |
London, United Kingdom: A man works out in London’s first purpose-built “senior playground”, opened in 2010 in Hyde Park. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images.
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北京 (Běijīng), China: Elderly residents engage in early morning exercises in 北京 (Běijīng)’s 地坛 (Dìtán park) in the 东城区 (Dōngchéng District). Photo: Dan Chung for The Guardian.
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On April 26, 2016, FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov also posted on his web site – thus confirming it – the link to the original article by TASS, dated March 29, 2016, about which we already talked earlier on.
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“At the FIDE Presidential Board we discussed the system of the World Chess Championship”, FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov told TASS. “Magnus Carlsen would like to go back to the old knockout system, but the Board has decided that the actual system is the non plus ultra. Furthermore, we’re also thinking to equate men’s and women’s World Chess Championship systems”. [Read more].
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13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov is back to make the show one of the shinest hits in chess history! Photo: Lennart Ootes/Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
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Tony Blair obtained a “blessing” from Chinese leaders for a company owned by a Saudi prince to do business in China as part of an arrangement that paid the former UK prime minister’s firm £41,000 a month and a 2% commission on any multimillion-pound contracts he helped to secure. [Read more].
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Tony Blair at the Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh in 2011. Photo: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images.
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We learn from our beloved friend, Silvia Bertini, that her Prince Passerby suddenly went on holiday to New York accompanied by his mother. At least this is the official version. Please accept it as true
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Kasparov still knows how to play chess very well. Photo: chess24.com (@chess24.com)
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From left: Anastasiya Valeryevna Karlovich, Anna Olehivna Muzychuk, and 赵雪 (Zhào Xuě) sharing their impressions after the game. Photo: Eteri Kublashvili.
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Ask the artist and dissident what he has in common with Andy Warhol and he says he “loved his time”. Ahead of his Melbourne show he talks about China, America, Lego and the wonders of the internet in conversation with Monica Tan
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Toy company chiefs say order was blocked by employee who misinterpreted rule on political neutrality, but deny they were influenced by China concerns
Lego’s vice-chairman has called his company’s refusal to sell its bricks to Chinese artist and activist 艾未未 (Ài Wèiwèi) an “internal mistake”. [Read more]. |
艾未未 (Ài Wèiwèi) at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia: “I have to make people understand we are not different, we are all created equal”. Photo: Tracey Nearmy/AAP.
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11th World Chess Champion Robert James Fischer meets the press at an exhibition game in Los Angeles, United States, on December 5, 1972. Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images.
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Lima, Peru: A former circus lion looks from inside his cage, pending his return to his homeland to live out the rest of his life in a private sanctuary in South Africa. Photo: Martin Mejia/AP.
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Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov: “The U.S. government isn’t interested in finding out the truth, they’re just trying to politicize the situation in FIDE”. For further details, see http://chess-news.ru/node/21366.
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13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov is back! On 28th and 29th April he’s gonna take on America’s three superstars Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura in the Ultimate Blitz Challenge at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, United States.
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