ARTS November 13 | 2020

How true is The Queen’s Gambit? The UK women’s chess champion on the hit Netflix show

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This week, unrewarded in showbusiness and she has made, eaten and chosen to eat was unveiled in London, and it has however, I feel that in OK! magazine then ends your career. on more than one occasion. raised many eyebrows — for when Dougie from the pop band McFly Congratulations, then, to Demi However, this week’s winner comes Maggi Hambling’s “tribute” to the innovated a reply to a question usually Lovato, the former Disney child from the Game of Thrones director writer, intellectual and grandmother asked of women that might be of use. star who, having done “Going Mark Mylod, who described what it of feminism was revealed we saw . . . As readers of glossy magazines will Sexy”, is forging a new path into was like working with the ultra-minx a tiny, super-hot naked bird with be aware, the three most common adulthood: going a bit woo-woo. Diana Rigg. 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blue: to dissuade any drunken snacker from taking a nibble 2 — there was added horror because Sonic himself is, indeed, The hot list blue. Is the curry . . . made of DOWN hedgehog? Has the recession Sonic the already hit so hard that Nintendo Your guide to the weekend was cannibalising its biggest star? Hedgehog Surely no fan actually wants to eat their hero? I think we all felt a bit And so to the unholy weird about “Salt ’n’ Lineker” crisps Film revelation that is — and at least they didn’t look like the limited edition Gary. This is as if Walker’s had made Jingle Jangle: A granddaughter Journey Sonic the Hedgehog the crisps in the shape of Lineker’s Christmas Journey (Madalen Mills, right with Curry. Pictures of the vivid blue dish ears. Or face. There are just certain Forest Whitaker delivers Phylicia Rashad) has tracked have circulated the internet, and the lines you don’t cross. a restrained yet sensational him down after 30 years of world is unanimous in its review: that That said, at least Nintendo can performance in this colourful estrangement from her mother, looks absolutely revolting. comfort itself because it has invented Christmas musical about Jeronicus’s daughter Jessica Besides humans being fairly not only the vindablue, but also the a Victorian-era toymaker called (Anika Noni Rose). Cineastes decisively programmed not to eat cobalti, the Avatarka daal and — if Jeronicus Jangle (Whitaker) will love the nods to kids’ movie deep-blue things — that’s why those you’re ordering off the English menu who has lost his mojo. His classics. See review, p7. Netflix disinfectant blocks in urinals are — the smurf’n’turf.

Centrist Dad Keir Starmer is ahead in Pop the polls, while Corbyn has apparently retreated to the Isle of Wight to Foo Fighters at the Roxy forthcoming album Medicine at 1 holiday with a famous left-wing nudist. Fresh from losing a drum battle Midnight while raising money That’s . . . so Jeremy Corbyn. with the ten-year-old rhythm for the Sweet Relief Musicians UP Meanwhile, the terrifying spell that sensation Nandi Bushell, Fund. The concert starts at Old-fashioned, Trump cast over the US appears to Dave Grohl rounds up his ever- an unsociable 1am GMT, but have been broken. Seemingly cheerful rock band for a live- buying a ticket gives you mild-mannered unstoppable by facts, impeachment stream from the Roxy Theatre access for the next 48 hours. centrists or a deadly virus, he had started to in Los Angeles, marking his nocapshows.com, tomorrow assume, in the imaginations of the left, Once, pretty much everyone was the powers of an immortal bogeyman. a mild-mannered, liberal, easy-going Now, however, we live in a post-Four centrist. Remember the era of “I agree Seasons Total Landscaping world. Comedy with Nick” and “Hug a hoodie”? By calling a ludicrous post-election What a difference a decade makes. press conference in the car park of Chortle Comedy Book Festival Stibbe, right, Helen Lederer, No need to summarise the power a gardening firm between a sex shop The comedy website joins the Adam Buxton and Professor shifts here: you’ve just lived through it! and a crematorium, Trump’s right- comedy streaming service Jonathan Silvertown, whose These days one of the biggest insults hand bastard Rudy Giuliani has badly Next Up to begin an eight-day book The Comedy of Error that can be hurled online is: “you dented the president’s aura of festival of interviews. Sunday’s looks at the science of laughter. centrist”. “Centrist Dad” is the enemy invincibility. Getting five million fewer opening line-up includes Nina comedybookfest.com, Sunday of the far left, while the “metropolitan votes than Centrist Dad Joe Biden was liberal” — which is how people with a bit of a kick in the nuts too. Range Rovers say “Centrist Dad” — is Suddenly, there’s just . . . more people the enemy of the far right. Everyone, it in the centre. Trump’s political Theatre seemed, hates the metropolitan, liberal position is starting to look like he did centrists, although many of the haters playing that round of golf the day after 15 Heroines women. Here 15 pieces, all must be former centrists. I mean, Boris the election in Virginia: alone. Figures from the world of roughly 15 minutes long, are Johnson definitely used to be more Meanwhile, in Westminster, Biden Greek and Roman mythology divided into three sequences — centrist. And Trump! In 2001 he was a has been on the phone to Johnson, get a contemporary reworking The War, The Desert and The Democrat! I guess it’s like boot-cut telling him that his Brexit plans for the in this ambitious series of Labyrinth — performed by such jeans: we all say they’re horrible now, Good Friday Agreement won’t work, streamed monologues by actors as Olivia Williams, left, but we all wore them in 2007. So much and Boris’s former “business associate” writers including Natalie and a majestic Doña Croll. of politics is just . . . fashion. Jennifer Arcuri tweeted a summation Haynes. Ariadne, Phaedra et al jermynstreettheatre.co.uk, So let us reflect on that rarest of of his political opportunism: “This is become thoroughly modern today, tomorrow things: A Good Month For Centrists. repulsive Boris Johnson. This tweet First, Jeremy Corbyn was suspended exposes you for what you really are . . . from the Labour Party. “Oh, Jeremy #GreatSupineProtoplasmicInvertebrate Corbyn” became “No, Jeremy Corbyn”. Jelly in other words, 100% #puppet.” Classical Or, if he’s eventually ejected from the Of course, there are 49 days of this party, “Go, Jeremy Corbyn”. A far-left mad year left to go, and no one would Mozart Requiem Mark Wigglesworth conducts rebellion has yet to materialise: ultra- want to underestimate 2020’s ability English National Opera the company orchestra and to throw in another half a dozen returns home to London’s chorus, with a strong line-up demented plot twists before New most beautiful theatre, Frank of soloists: Sarah Connolly, Year’s Eve. But for the first time since Matcham’s Coliseum, to present right, Elizabeth Llewellyn, the Brexit vote in 2016 anyone who Mozart’s sombre masterpiece Ed Lyon and Gerald Finley. would still, proudly, call themselves for a primetime TV audience. BBC Two, tomorrow a liberal centrist is feeling like . . . there might be a revival ahead? After all, the world’s greatest hheroes at the moment — the Dance husband-and-wife team Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, inventors of the Royal Ballet Le Corsaire to modern classics breakthrough Pfizer Covid A selection of highlights from such as Frederick Ashton’s vaccine — are two bike- the repertoire shows off the serene Monotones II and riding immigrants talents of Britain’s biggest ballet Christopher Wheeldon’s lovely who quietly built company, from 19th-century Within the Golden Hour. their own bonbons such as Swan Lake and stream.roh.org.uk multibillion- pound pharmaceutical company. You can’t get In Saturday Review tomorrow much more right-down- the-middle Boy George on bling and fame; plus, centrist than that. Leonard Cohen in his own words 4 1GT Friday November 13 2020 | the times cover story

What we’ve learnt When you are young you get the constant comment that girls can’t about chess from play chess The Queen’s Gambit gamble. Chess players have addictive What does the hit drama get right — and wrong? UK personalities, myself included, so I try not to drink, try not to gamble. It’s a women’s chess champion Jovanka Houska and chess slippery slope.” Do all chess players have their correspondent David Howell talk to Dominic Maxwell own Obi-Wan Kenobi figure? In The Queen’s Gambit Beth’s chess t is the surprise hit of the season. mentor is the janitor at her orphanage. The Queen’s Gambit, a seven-part In Howell’s case it was Jonathan Netflix adaptation of a 1983 Tuck, a chess coach who spotted novel by Walter Tevis, has him at a tournament when he was six, helped to make chess sexy again. then coached him and travelled with Or, quite possibly, sexier than him to tournaments “without asking Iever. It has been Netflix’s most for a penny”. watched show for two weeks and For Houska it was her father, counting. What’s more, Anya Taylor- Mario. “You need a mentor, it’s Joy’s performance as Beth Harmon, super-important,” she says. “My the orphan from Lexington, Kentucky, father wasn’t an Obi-Wan Kenobi, who goes on to challenge the best he just gave me no choice: ‘This is a players in the world, has had an family game and you’re good at it, so immediate effect on how chess is seen. carry on.’ Everyone has had some sort The website chess.com, which has of inspiration like that.” praised the series for “getting chess right”, had already been getting three Can chess earn you good times as many new members as usual money? during the pandemic, according to its Beth starts making a living from director of business development, her playing while still a teenager. Nick Barton. Since The Queen’s Gambit In real life, Houska says, it’s hard to started streaming on October 23, survive on prize money alone. “To however, its membership has been earn a comfortable living you really growing faster still: 480,000 new need to be top twenty, maybe top ten members last week alone. “Seemingly in the world.” each day since the show’s release Some countries, such as India we’ve been setting a new record for or the US, have well-funded chess members joining the site,” Barton says. Jovanka Houska, emotion of chess really well.” And federations that can support their Chess matches are back on the UK women’s yet . . . we had to wonder . . . this is players. “In western Europe it’s television too. Last week Eurosport chess champion television. To entertain us, how many very tough,” Houska says. “Most countries turn up to compete, where signed a deal to broadcast coverage of liberties has the series taken with what professionals I know are making their talk of zugzwangs and Sicilian the Champions Chess Tour — the first playing chess for a living is really like? livings from coaching, commentary, Defences is likely to extend to pillow professional online championship — writing books.” talk. “It’s one big celebration, in a good from now until September next year. Do all top chess players have How much does Howell earn from way,” Howell says. “They are all very “Chess is definitely gaining in emotional issues? tournaments? During the pandemic, serious about the chess, but in any popularity,” says Jovanka Houska, the Beth Harmon is orphaned, gets he says, nothing: the British Chess profession there are situations like UK women’s chess champion. “I just addicted to the tranquillisers they Championships, for example, were that where stuff happens.” spoke to a friend who had been give her at the orphanage . . . and the cancelled this year. Normally, prize Howell, who is single and lives with interviewed by Vogue.” problems keep coming even after she money will be about half of his his family in Seaford, East Sussex, The Queen’s Gambit’s adapter and gets adopted. She becomes a heavy income. For other top British players prefers not to go out with chess director Scott Frank worked hard to drinker and struggles to find human prize money might be as much as players. He’d rather switch off from “get chess right”. He recruited the relationships that rival her relationship “80 to 90 per cent of their income. the game. That, Houska says, is quite chess teacher Bruce Pandolfini, who with chess. Is this just a fictional That is a lot of pressure.” rare. She lives in Bergen, Norway, with also advised Tevis on the novel, and trope? “I want to say yes, but there her husband, Arne Hagesaether. He the former world champion Garry is a degree of obsession in every Can chess really be that works in IT in the shipping industry, Kasparov to help him. And yet the high-level athlete everywhere,” glamorous? but they met while competing in a show is very much fiction. Its Houska says. “You have to have that Chess takes Beth from Kentucky to tournament. “Most couples are formed protagonist, Beth Harmon, becomes a if you want to go further. That is a big tournaments in Mexico City, Paris and within the chess community,” Houska chess sensation in the America of the thing that distinguishes us from other Moscow. Nice hotels. Swish dinners. In says. “Rather uniquely, Arne is quite a 1960s. In real life it wasn’t until 2005 people. But you have normal chess reality, Houska says, chess is a game bit lower-rated than me.” that Judit Polgar of Hungary became You play in players who are interested in all sorts of extremes. “You can play in the most the only woman to make it into the of other things too.” glamorous five-star hotel one day, be Do chess players really help world’s top ten. a five-star The character of Beth was partly crammed in with 80 other people in one another out? Yet the chess community has inspired by Bobby Fischer, the the dingiest school room the next, In The Queen’s Gambit Beth’s rivals embraced the show. The Times’s chess hotel one American former world champion being forced to share the toilets with go on to become her training allies. correspondent, David Howell, 29, a famous for his mental struggles and the men. That is the worst.” Really? “I used to try not fraternising three-time British chess champion day and disruptive behaviour. These days the with the enemy,” Howell says. “But who became Britain’s youngest top players are more likely to be Is chess really a hotbed as I’ve got older I’ve realised that, grandmaster at the age of 16, is among a dingy micromanaging their sugar and of romance? actually, unless you are in the World its fans. He calls the chess scenes “well school caffeine intake than spiralling out of Beth locks eyes with more than one Championship finals or something, choreographed and realistic”. control. “In the levels below, though, fellow chess player in The Queen’s why not? I’ve been on training camps Houska, 40, also loves The Queen’s room the there are cases of people who get lost Gambit. In real life it’s only the with some of the best players in the Gambit. “I think it’s a fantastic TV in their own minds,” Howell says. biennial Chess Olympiad, where five world, and they are very open about series,” she says. “It conveys the next “Some players drink, some players men and five women from various sharing their ideas.” the times | Friday November 13 2020 1GT 5 cover story

PHIL BRAY/NETFLIX; RAY MORRIS-HILL running away. He later discovered that it was friends and family of his opponent. He lost the match. “I barely slept. I was broken, psychologically.” How chess (and Do male chess players The Queen’s patronise female chess players? More than we see happen in The Gambit) saved Queen’s Gambit, Houska says. Yes, the grumpy janitor first expresses disbelief my relationship that a girl could play chess. A few local types underestimate or patronise her. I’m addicted to The Queen’s Gambit. After that, “Beth has it very easy, For the fictional American chess really. Everyone shows her respect.” prodigy with a troubled past (played Meanwhile, Houska has had senior by Anya Taylor-Joy), chess becomes male players undermining her while a drug (along with the tranquillisers she is doing presentations, or ganging she becomes addicted to). The up on her in tournaments, deliberately narcotic haze of this heightened playing slowly in their games with her focus fills the emptiness of her in an attempt to exhaust her. “That young life, rewrites any feeling of takes its toll,” she says. “And when abandonment and becomes her you are young you get the constant raison d’être. comment that girls can’t play chess. In many ways, chess has become Boys are very good at shouting girls my drug too. I’ve spent hours every down. And this is a problem because night over these past few months there aren’t so many girls playing glued to chess.com, playing against chess. They become timid, they say, the boyfriend I’ve barely seen since ‘Oh, OK, I’ll back off because this boy the pandemic began; a nighttime sounds very confident.’ ” habit that does sometimes dictate the theme of my dreams, as in The Does chess really happen at Queen’s Gambit. My boyfriend is such speed? French, works in Paris as an IT Part of the appeal of The Queen’s engineer, is 30 years old and has Gambit is the way the matches happen begged me to not use his real name so fast, players’ fingers dancing because he’d be mortified if his between chess pieces and chess friends ever found out that he’s clock. Championship chess is more a secret chess fanatic. He has, deliberate, Houska and Howell say, however, compromised by letting even if it has speeded up a lot since the seven-hour matches of the 1960s. Beth’s games happen more at the pace of “blitz” chess, which gives each player a total of three minutes’ playingg time plus two seconds per move, or “rapid” chess, which is 15 minutes per player plus ten seconds per move. “Beth is playing abnormally quickly,” Houska says. “At that speed you don’t have time to process all the thoughts and plans.” Could a woman become the best player in the world? No reason why not. “It is very hard to explain why there has been only one Jade Cuttle woman who has made it to the top ten in the world and only one other [Hou Above and below: Yifan of China] who has made it to thee me use his chess.com username, Anya Taylor-Joy top 100,” Howell says. “I am optimistic which is Pioupiou92 and, in my in The Queen’s it will happen one day. In the past the opinion, is no less mortifying. Gambit. Left: small participation numbers by While the ban on overseas travel with Thomas women has made it hard, and the two-week quarantine rule Brodie- probability-wise. Hopefully this has taken any romantic rendezvous Sangster show will inspire more young girls off the cards, a passion for chess is in the to play.” helping to keep Pioupiou92 and me series The real issue is social, though. sane. Chess has saved our long- “I want, before anything, for distance relationship on more than chess to be fun for girls to play,” one occasion. We turn to chess.com says Houska, who captains for a distraction, funnelling any the England women’s team. frustration into trying to steal each “And to do that we need to other’s pawns. As Taylor-Joy and her increase the numbers. We cheekbones have shown, chess can be play online; it’s just to sexy, so we spice up this geeky date form a community, get with an apéro, wine and video chat. the social side going, all We’re not the only ones with chess to reinforce the idea that fever, it turns out. According to the chess should be fun. analytics website Sully Gnome, web And then once we’ve users watched 41.2 million hours of done that we can cater chess on Twitch between March and However, Houska says, British chess players toy with their opponents, to all the levels. So that August this year, which is four times chess needs more funding to enable but it’s not something she recommends. if a girl wants to be a more than the previous six months more teamwork like this: it’s the best “You don’t really want to expend any Beth Harmon, there’s before the pandemic began. The site way for players to go from good to energy on psyching people,” she says. the right support is for serious players, but you don’t great. “In other federations around “You just want to focus on the game.” network for her. I want have to be a prodigy to enjoy chess the world, nobody believes in this Howell, however, has had a couple it to be a level playing — just staring at a chess board for lone-wolf thing.” of players deliberately kicking him field. Until we get to five minutes a day can be fantastic under the table during matches — and that stage I don’t think meditation. When the world outside Do chess players really psych worse than that too. Once, when he we can talk about feels scary and unpredictable, the each other out? was a junior, he was in a final he badly biological neat squares of a chess board offer Now and then players try to get into wanted to win. Yet the night before or genetic disparities.” a safe space of predictability where Beth’s head to disrupt her play in The people kept ringing his phone and The Queen’s Gambit is logic still triumphs. Queen’s Gambit. Houska has seen elite knocking on his hotel door then on Netflix Jade Cuttle 6 1GT Friday November 13 2020 | the times Richard Morrison the arts column The art of fundraising: it helps if you learn to love rich people

EAMONN M MCCORMACK/GETTY IMAGES was thinking today about the Inquisition, as one does. It wasn’t all thumbscrews and boiling oil. Stonehenge It also deployed a more subtle torment called “torture through road has hope”. A prisoner was allowed taken Ito escape, smell fresh air and taste freedom, only to be surrounded by guards and experience an age the spirit-crushing realisation that the whole thing was a trick. Villiers de One of the most l’Isle-Adam wrote a chilling short delayed planning story about it, La torture par decisions in British l’espérance, if you fancy a nice history was finally grim read. In French. settled yesterday, Which brings me to the vaccine. The and I won’t be the possibility that it could end the Covid only hack heaving nightmare has rightly generated an exhausted sigh euphoria. My worry is that, for the of relief. In the arts, this could be the 2021 equivalent 36 years I’ve been of torture through hope; an apparent covering culture “get out of jail” card that turns out to for The Times be just a more prolonged path to 25 schemes for oblivion. Let me explain why, then rerouting the A303 suggest one way for arts organisations Banging the drum for philanthropy: at Stonehenge have to help themselves to survive. the LSO in Trafalgar Square, come and gone. In The first problem is that, after London, in 2016 July, however, we March, the £1.57 billion Cultural were promised that Recovery Fund will be spent. With by November 13 luck, mass vaccination will be well in the first nine months of 2020, and Well, the London Symphony It obviously helped that they were, the government underway and entertainment venues 75 per cent in June to September, Orchestra has found a pair of them. in their own words, “avid LSO would finally, properly open again. That doesn’t according to a new TRG Arts report. The LSO’s recovery appeal, aimed at concertgoers for over 15 years”. It irrevocably, decide mean the arts are home and dry. Of course, some British HNWIs raising £5 million by next summer, was also important, however, that whether to proceed Far from it. are magnificent exceptions. I was has been kickstarted by a donation of the orchestra has always made its with the latest Every economist predicts that delighted but not surprised to see £1.5 million from a youngish married donors feel part of the LSO family. £2 billion plan to Covid will have a “long tail”. For years Vivien Duffield’s Clore Duffield couple, Elena and Alex Gerko. Both As Kathryn McDowell, its managing bury the road in to come governments will have to Foundation — which has given tens Russian-born, they live in London director, puts it: “There’s still a lot of a tunnel. And slash public spending, including arts of millions to the arts — responding to with a net worth estimated at a money out there, particularly in the yesterday it was subsidies, to service 2020’s massive Covid by donating another £2.5 million tolerable £500 million. financial sector. You just have to work indeed approved. debts. The private sector, focused to relaunch community programmes She’s a Bank of England on forging long-term relationships This incredible on survival, will cut all inessential in 66 arts organisations. economist. He’s a mathematician with potential philanthropists.” saga of ministerial spending, including what remains of Duffield, though, is a scion of the old who founded a company, XTX It’s that last bit that arts people flipflopping arts sponsorship. And many charitable guard — a characterful array of first Markets, that trades £200 billion of appear to find difficult. Often British reminds me of trusts will have exhausted their and second-generation immigrants stocks, currencies and commodities cultural organisations seem more Tommy Cooper’s reserves on Covid projects. (think Paul Hamlyn, Isaac Wolfson each day without a single human intent on finding reasons for rejecting line: “I used to be All that could produce an economic and Duffield’s dad, Charles Clore) trader. It’s all done by massive donors and sponsors than recruiting indecisive, but now climate so icy it makes the “austerity whose affection for Britain was such computing power, fiendish algorithms them. I don’t just mean reasons such I’m not so sure.” I years” of the past seem like a stroll that they kept our cultural institutions and brilliant techies who work out as links to fossil fuels. There also seems just rejoice that I in a rose garden. On top of that, arts going through the 20th century. We of a nerdishly hip office in King’s to be a deep suspicion of wealth itself. have grandchildren organisations will need to rebuild desperately need to find their Cross, furnished with a replica Apollo I have just read the latest report who might, some audiences and invest in streaming. 21st-century successors. 11 command module. from the Beacon Collaborative, an time in the late Where will the money come from? The Gerkos have previously organisation that encourages British 21st century, knock One answer is philanthropy. In the donated to maths schools and the HNWIs to become philanthropists. all of ten minutes US it raises billions. In the UK, by social-mobility charity Sutton Trust. One line stayed in my mind: “It off their journey contrast, very wealthy people have And this year XTX gave £21.5 million seems that fundraisers sometimes to Cornwall by been lamentably stingy. The median In the UK we to organisations doing Covid-related struggle to see past the money to driving through level of charitable giving among work (Alex Gerko cited a “moral the individuals behind it — to the newly built high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) can seem better responsibility” for successful understand what motivates them and tunnel, costing in Britain is 66p a day. Yup, the same companies to help to alleviate the also what the wealthy feel they are only 30 times what as buying someone a KitKat. And arts at rejecting than crisis), but this is the first time the bringing to the table.” If the arts are those idiots in 2020 donations have almost collapsed couple have made a big arts donation. to survive the “long tail” of Covid, that said it would. during Covid — down 35 per cent recruiting donors What persuaded them? needs to change fast. the times | Friday November 13 2020 1GT 7

Will Hodgkinson THE finds AC/DC reassuringly samey p9 James Marriott finds Paxman has mellowed p10 CRITICS James Jackson on the battle to save our pubs p11

Yule love it: a Christmas familyGARETH GATRELL/NETFLIX treat is extra spacious and presented in the big film proscenium, allowing for the many swooping, leaping, high-energy Forest Whitaker dance routines that pepper the film. The musical numbers, including a track by John Legend, are an eclectic is terrific in this bunch, and range from R&B lite (the opening This Day), to the rousing, touching tale of swoon-inducing Square Root of Possible. “Is it possible that the square a toymaker who root of impossible is meeeeeeeeeeee?” Journey sings, in a set piece seemingly has lost his mojo, designed to challenge the ear-worm supremacy of Frozen’s Let it Go. says Kevin Maher The plotting is bare bones and the developments blatantly telegraphed. Will Jeronicus recover his mojo? Will t’s easy to forget about Forest his latest toy creation, after initial Whitaker. He has drifted, in hiccups and a mid-movie meltdown, recent years, into that dreaded eventually become a barnstorming casting category of “solid success? Will his ex-employee and supporting player” and is nemesis, Gustafson (Keegan-Michael thus frequently granted Key), together with his evil automated Isecondary status in mainstream sidekick Don Juan Diego (Ricky blockbusters such as Rogue One, Martin), be rightfully punished? Will Arrival and Black Panther. Yet given Journey sing an even more rousing half a chance, and a meatier role, the version of Square Root of Possible? 59-year-old Oscar-winner (for The All highly likely. Yet it’s delivered Last King of Scotland) can be nothing with such straight-faced sincerity that less than mesmerising. it proves difficult to resist, and even He is the still centre of gravity for harder to decry. Plus, how could you everything that’s busy, wonderfully object to a film that foregrounds a gaudy and hyperactive in this pre-teen heroine who believes in Christmas musical about a Victorian- maths, science and the value of hard era toymaker called Jeronicus Jangle work and perseverance over the crass (Whitaker) who has lost his mojo. allure of instant fame and riches? When we first encounter Jeronicus, Film buffs, meanwhile, will be on the lightly snow-dusted “English” satisfied by the winks and nods to streets of Cobbleton (they have the classic children’s movies. The film is Royal Mail, bobbies on the beat and Madalen Mills and They create a vacuum, and I don’t never felt that she belongs, Jeronicus bookended by a bedtime story from a largely American cast who have Forest Whitaker have time for that.” smiles kindly and purrs: “A child with the Cosby Show veteran Phylicia chosen to retain their accents), he Whitaker rarely shifts gears an imagination always belongs.” And Rashad, which is very Princess Bride. plays the scene so softly that his throughout the subsequent drama, when he reunites with Jessica he does Jeronicus’s star creation is a sentient dialogue is barely audible. despite a plethora of narrative so with a song, and a sweet tenor robot that carries more than a whiff His granddaughter Journey incidents building up around him voice, that begins: “Maybe I could hold of ET and Wall-E. While elsewhere (Madalen Mills, a winning turn), Jingle Jangle: (he’s about to be evicted, his new you tight until your life is full of love.” Peter Pan, Willy Wonka & the has tracked him down after A Christmas invention doesn’t work, a former A single tear, right on cue, falls from Chocolate Factory and Mary Poppins 30 years of estrangement from his Journey employee has stolen from him). It’s his left eye. It’s proper acting. All hail are liberally plundered for stylistic daughter, her mother, Jessica (Anika PG, 122min a risky performance strategy, always the maestro. cues and fantastical sequences (lots Noni Rose). Journey accosts him {{{{( on the verge of alienating the The film surrounding Whitaker of flying children). outside his dilapidated pawnbroker’s audience (why is he so internal?). is an audacious gamble. It was Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (once a thriving toyshop) and Yet as the film advances into its originally conceived as a stage musical ends with a startling image that has demands to become an employee final act his choices pay stupendous more than two decades ago by the been ripped straight from the pages and participant in any future dividends. The little cracks of emotion playwright David E Talbert, who of JM Barrie and with the emerging toymaking endeavours. He doesn’t suddenly shine outwards to dazzling directs the film, and has retained some sense that a small-screen yuletide even look up, but just mutters: “You effect. When Journey, a friendless of those theatrical elements. The staple has indeed arrived. know what they say about children. science nerd, reveals that she has pawnbroker’s interior set, especially, On Netflix

Kevin Maher’s final the students. I bought it completely. I loved the look, Michael Nyman’s film club choice is a score and the Oscar-winning dramatic tug-of-love performances, and felt that the screenplay expressed essential For the last Times film club — thank Film Club truths about power and desire. What did you think of The Piano? you all for your attention and keen- This mid-19th-century tug-of-love Join Kevin Maher for a live chat on eyed observations — I’m going back The Piano between the mute Ada (Holly Monday, November 16, from noon to the start. Jane Campion’s The Piano Hunter), the stiff Alisdair (Sam Neill) to 1.30pm. Put your thoughts in the was the first film that I watched for (1993) and the wild man Baines (Harvey comment section below the feature my master’s degree in film studies. Keitel) is almost biblical. It’s endlessly at thetimes.co.uk/arts, and, since this It immediately provoked fiery, rewatchable, always rewarding. is the final film club, tell us what foam-flecked arguments among Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin Amazon, Apple, Google your favourite movie has been 8 1GT Friday November 13 2020 | the times film reviews

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Blank, incurious hagiography defines this “documentary” about the three-times world heavyweightight champion and — byby allall accounts here — bloodybl d good d bloke Lennox Lewis, above. Cut together with all the pizzazz of a robot mainlining YouTube clips, it opens with his grudge match against Mike Tyson in 2002. We then reverse to Lewis’s childhood in London, his early bouts in Canada and his rise to the top until — whaddya know — we’re back to the Tyson fight. Is there an app for this? Famous clips + circular structure = sports documentary? The talking heads skip the juicy stuff, such as his legal battles with the promoter Don King. Fight fans will enjoy the access to Lewis’s mother, coaches and “the Lion”, his nickname for himself. The relentlessness of the messaging, though, is quite a slog. Amazon, Apple, Google and Sky from Monday

Fireball: Visitors from Sophia Loren, still a force at 86 Darker Worlds 97min not in the English language — it’s There is a tendency with ageing {{{(( The Italian star Italian) that mainstream cinema has Tinseltown legends to primp them long since abandoned. The Life Ahead and prune them and plop them in Everyone’s favourite husky-voiced 15, 94min shines in this tale Screen legend Loren, who has not {{{{( lightweight froth such as Book Club or Bavarian, Werner Herzog, returns with taken a starring role in 16 years (she Our Souls at Night. this diligent, informative documentary of an unlikely had a couple of desultory moments But no such rules apply here, as about asteroids and their impact — in the musical dirge Nine), grabs the Loren reveals the downward trajectory literally, metaphorically and culturally formidable part of Madame Rosa with of Rosa (there is an illness) in a series — on Earth. Visiting space-rock friendship, says both hands (and teeth and claws). of devastating close-ups. In one she hotspots in the Australian outback, Rosa’s initial relationship with the stares into space, soaked by the rain, Rajasthan and Antarctica, Herzog is Kevin Maher sullen Momo, deposited in her care mouth hanging vacantly open and joined by Clive Oppenheimer, his co- after some petty thievery, is typically eyes frozen in a catatonic stupor. director and a Cambridge professor. or every diatribe about the hostile. They live on the Adriatic coast, It’s a poignant and tragic bookend The result is more straight-faced nefarious reach of Netflix and in the Italian port city of Bari, and shot to the vivacious Loren captured science doc and less Herzogian its capacity to precipitate the they clash over every subject, from in the close-ups of her breakthrough jeremiad. Occasionally he springs to Fdeath of “real” cinema there table manners to Momo’s desire to movie, Vittorio De Sica’s The Gold of life, injecting the commentary with comes a movie like this. It’s a work for the local mafia boss Ruspa Naples (1954). There she played a pizza mordant humour. In Chicxulub, modestly budgeted whisper of a film, (Massimiliano Rossi). It’s a testament seller who bamboozles a plethora of Mexico, site of the strike that killed backed by Netflix, and featuring to the talents of the director and drooling male customers — a Rosa in the dinosaurs, he says in his delightful Sophia Loren as Madame Rosa, co-writer Edoardo Ponti (Loren’s son) the making. deadpan: “The dogs here, like all dogs an octogenarian ex-prostitute and that this tension is not easily resolved, Loren is nicely complemented by on the planet, are too dimwitted to Auschwitz survivor who fosters a and as late as an hour into the film the powerful new find Gueye, who understand that three quarters of all 12-year-old Senegalese street urchin Rosa is still appalled by Momo, and matches her scene for scene. Their species were extinguished by the event and wannabe drug dealer called complains: “There is a hooligan in my relationship, like the film surrounding that took place right here.” The rest of Momo (Ibrahima Gueye). It is, in house. He’s rotten to the core.” them, is tender without ever being the film is compelling, yet it pales in short, precisely the type of movie Loren’s performance is instinctual, saccharine. comparison with Herzog’s Grizzly Man. (measured, thoughtful, elegant, and commanding and entirely vanity free. On Netflix On AppleTV+

DC.D Police called it suicide, but an infamous bank robbery in 1972 herh family suspected foul play. from President Nixon’s slush fund — Billie An eerie pall is deliberately Finding Steve hidden, the film claims, in the bank’s 15, 98min {{{{( castc over James Erskine’s gripping McQueen safety deposit boxes. portraitp of Holiday, left. There’s 15, 91min That narrative kernel, however, is a suggestion that the singer’s {{((( beaten into tedium by an enormously Two biopics for the price of one hard-knockh life — her battles with bland central performance from is the essential pitch of this densely racismr and drug addiction and her The shadow of Tarantino looms large Travis Fimmel, as the robber and involving documentary, which tells voraciousv and self-destructive over this B-grade heist movie. From McQueen enthusiast Harry Barber, Billie Holiday’s story via the previously appetitesa (she was, one band the self-conscious dialogue of the bank and a dopey screenplay that mistakes unheard interview tapes of her fearless memberm says matter-of-factly, “a robbers, who discuss their favourite flashbacks and time-jumps for actual biographer, Linda Lipnack Kuehl. sexs machine”) — spilt over into the TV stars on the way to the crime, to dramatic tension. Forest Whitaker, After eight years of meticulous worldw of the biographer and sealed the non-chronological narrative leaps the star of this week’s Jingle Jangle, research, including audio interviews herh fate. It’s a richly rewarding film, and the repurposing of Hans Zimmer’s pops up as a sensitive FBI agent. with everyone from Harlem pimps to anda the best music doc since Amy. True Romance soundtrack, everything He is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the former drummers to Tony Bennett, in BarbicanB Cinema on Demand exists in adolescent homage to the best thing in the film. 1978 Lipnack Kuehl fell to her death now;n Amazon and Apple Pulp Fiction director. There’s a smart Amazon, Apple, Google, Sky from from a hotel balcony in Washington fromfr Monday story, nonetheless, at the centre, about Monday the times | Friday November 13 2020 1GT 9 music reviews

Paris Jackson A change of style? Hell no, let’s rock! Wilted JOSH CHEUSE Republic {{{((

Heavy rock’s great Don’t come here expecting anything remotely like her father Michael’s survivors are back hook-laden pop funk; Paris Jackson has gone the other way and headed in the ring to take toward meandering, hippie-friendly, acoustic folk-rock. She has a nicely languid voice, best showcased on the another swing, says gentle love song Repair, and there’s real pain in the lachrymose break-up Will Hodgkinson piano ballad Eyelids. Much of this would sound lovely if alfway through the latest 22-year-old Jackson were strumming it album by the world’s biggest out by a campfire on a beach at sunset, heavy rock group, which ideally in Malibu, and although it isn’t Htakes the maxim “If it ain’t dynamic or original enough to make broke, don’t fix it” to its an impact, there’s something sweet ultimate conclusion, comes a typically and sincere about it all. basic boogie called Kick You When Jackson has risen above her demons You’re Down. “As you’re slipping down to make a debut album with promise. a wall, when you’re heading for a fall, You can imagine great things from her why do they kick you when you’re when she finds her own voice. down?” asks Brian Johnson in his throaty roar, while the guitarist Angus Young, still dressing like a schoolboy even though he can now claim for his free bus pass, answers in the only way Katy J Pearson he knows how: with a blistering riff. Return AC/DC have survived for almost Heavenly 50 years by being impermeable to {{{{( fashions, world events, and anything resembling musical growth. Life After a bruising experience with a catches up with all of us eventually, major label that led to the band she though, and in 2014 Young’s elder formed with her brother being brother Malcolm, the architect of the dropped before they got going, the Australian band’s brutal sound, was Bristol songwriter Katy J Pearson diagnosed with dementia. He died in has gone back to basics. 2017. Also in 2014 drummer Phil Rudd This charming, personal album of was charged with attempting to country rock, soul and indie is about procure murder, like a real-life take on being lonely, meeting people and AC/DC’s contract-killer classic Dirty generally getting through the whole Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. That charge From left: Cliff Williams, reunion album come from Malcolm salesman gripped by a rebellious urge adventure of being in your twenties. was withdrawn, but he admitted Phil Rudd, Angus Young, with the absolute minimum on the M1 and thinking, “Sod it, I’m Take Back the Radio and Fix Me Up others of threatening to kill and drug Young, Brian Johnson of ingredients added. There is a going up to 75.” Nobody comes to are, respectively, catchy tunes about possession and was put under house and Stevie Young soporific thud from the rehabilitated AC/DC for the answers to life, but this the power of music and finding arrest. Johnson, who joined after the Rudd, solos from Angus Young that takes meaninglessness to a new level. someone else to resolve your former singer Bon Scott died at the consist of little more than distorted With impressively clear vision, problems, and the whole album is end of a massive drinking spree, quit pop Chuck Berry licks played incredibly Malcolm Young realised in 1973 that marked out by the arresting quality in 2016 after his doctor said that more loud, and Johnson screaming about, Australia was filled with factory of Pearson’s Kate Bush-meets-Dolly concerts would leave him profoundly AC/DC well, not a great deal really. workers, sheep shearers and others Parton vocal delivery. A bit of a gem. deaf. Bassist Cliff Williams, also facing Power Up On Rejection he warns us that whose needs were not being met by hearing issues, left later that year. Columbia disrespecting him will result in pain. soft pop and progressive rock. So he Now all of them are back together. {{{{( An inconclusive report from a fortune decided to form a band that would Not even death can stop a band who teller on Witch’s Spell prophesies that sound good in bars, especially after once played a gig in the Australian his future “could be sinister . . . or your fifth beer. The formula remains Liraz outback where a fan showed his maybe not.” On Code Red we find him unchanged on Power Up. As Johnson Zan appreciation by running riot with a “Speeding down the road, tearing up once said: “People like to explore. Glitterbeat meat cleaver. Most of the riffs on this the highway code” like a travelling Good luck to ’em.” {{{{(

Brought upp in Israel in a Sephardicc Good pluck: the joyful sounds of the mandolin Jewish family his critic grew up with two revealed in Vivaldi’s G major Concerto You couldn’t go wrong either with who musical instruments for two mandolins. Most of the music classical the pianist Martin Helmchen, whose moved knocking around the house, featured comes from Mediterranean Avi Avital previous release in his Beethoven there Tboth remnants of his parents’ countries, and every plucked sound concerto series recently earned him before the frivolous years. Making from Avital’s fingers, variously joined Art of the a Gramophone award. The present Iranian rude noises on my mother’s accordion by a harpsichord, guitar, harp and the Mandolin issue, the finale, features Concerto revolution, tthehe was enjoyable, but I usually neglected Venice Baroque Orchestra, radiates Deutsche Grammophon No 3 and the Triple Concerto, both actress andd sisingernger the mandolin, mentally associated warmth and dazzling light. {{{{{ performed in the athletic, thoughtful Liraz Charhi wanted to make an only with chinless wonders in The 20th and 21st-century pieces and unpretentious manner that makes album to celebrate the women of her PG Wodehouse stories footling about bring some of the album’s liveliest joys. Martin Helmchen performances so agreeable. mother country. So she collaborated in a punt. Thank heavens the Israeli Henze’s Carillon, Récitatif, Masque of Other pleasures keep pouring out with composers and musicians from musician Avi Avital didn’t think the 1974 couldn’t be more playful if it tried. Helmchen from Andrew Manze’s bouncy Iran — in secret, away from the glare same, otherwise the world wouldn’t be Giovanni Sollima’s solo Prelude, fiery Beethoven direction of the Deutsches of Tehran’s secret police. able to enjoy this delight of an album and folksy, and Paul Ben-Haim’s Alpha Classics Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Perhaps The result is beautiful, from the Art of the Mandolin. warmly exotic Trio are equally {{{{( there is more to explore in the sentimental balladry of Shab Gerye to For six years Avital has been the enjoyable, as is (despite its title) David concerto’s furthest depths, but the the 1970s Persian disco of Joon Joon world’s only mandolin player with Bruce’s Death is a Friend of Ours, relaxed pleasures of the Triple to the floating mystery of the ancient a big recording contract. No a bustling quintet featuring driving Concerto, with Antje Weithaas’s violin lullaby Lalei. With its combination Wodehouse character could even rhythms and Sean Shibe’s guitar. If and Marie-Elisabeth Hecker’s cello, of traditional Persian instruments, dream of the tactile subtleties at his you ever need a shot of sunshine Jazz album are wonderfully fulfilled. A pity there primitive electronics and Charhi’s command, the colour range or the during the winter months, I prescribe Dave Brubeck reviewed was no solo part for Avital’s mandolin. dramatic delivery in Farsi, Zan is flamboyant dexterity immediately Art of the Mandolin. at thetimes.co.uk/arts Geoff Brown a glimpse into another world. 10 1GT Friday November 13 2020 | the times Paxman’s latest role: Mr Nice Guy

PHOTO BY DAVID M BENETT/GETTY IMAGES FOR DEBRETT’S AND AUDI storytelling into the 21st century. It’s The presenter is all about err . . . a woman? Who has a dream about a ship? Also she has a almost cuddly in brain tumour? And a child? Now she’s in a nightclub? Also I think there’s an interview with a mad Scottish woman with a gun? What the hell is going on? Who Michael Palin, says knows? Not me. And I’m paid to know this stuff. I’m back. Still not sure how much James Marriott sense any of it makes, but that doesn’t stop it being perversely compelling. f the premise of Jeremy Paxman’s By the end of the first episode the new show is that he finally podcasts outlines of a plot have begun to gets to interview people he emerge. The sinking ship is connected actually likes, then why is he so The Lock In to a shadowy medical conspiracy. mean to Michael Palin? “You’re with Jeremy 76, aren’t you?” he asks Palin Paxman Iincredulously. “That’s far too {{{{( old to go travelling.” Palin demurs: geography is interesting. This He’s probably prompts Paxman to muse combatively Tracks (and he’s probably the only person {{{(( the only person who can muse combatively): who can muse “Geography is such a strange thing to Waldy and be a standard-bearer for . . . ‘colouring combatively in’, as it was known at university . . . Bendy’s Theresa May’s degree.” Then they get Adventures Helen (the woman with the brain talking about death. Palin says he tumour) investigates. If you’re thinks it’ll be a bit like when he went in Art prepared to concentrate (and ignore under anaesthetic for his heart {{{{{ some of the cheesier dialogue) this is operation. “You won’t wake up when gripping stuff. you’re dead,” Paxman points out. Waldy and Bendy’s Adventures in Art Later, when Paxman tells Palin that was one of the joys of the previous “the important thing in life is being lockdown. It’s hosted by the Sunday kind to people”, it dawns on you: this Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak is Paxman being nice. And I suppose, and the art dealer Bendor Grosvenor compared with the time he asked and comes out on Sunday, so you stick Chloe Smith whether she thought she it on while you make your dinner and was incompetent or asked Michael feel all erudite and soothed as your Howard the same question 12 times, stress about not being able to explain it is nice. In fact, being mean is a Tracks properly to Times readers just way of being nice to people if you can Jeremy Paxman: “The important thing in life is being kind to people” slips away . . . do it charmingly like Paxman. It’s a Anyway, it’s back and better than good way of establishing intimacy. in,” Paxman fulminates). The episode the reader, not me, the podcast critic. ever. The gimmicky bits about taking Watching somebody trying to ask with the rule-loving inner-city head This column is a benign dictatorship. virtual tours of museums have gone Palin about his death in a sensitive teacher Katharine Birbalsingh I am your great helmsman and I rule and the Waldemar-Bendor double way would just be awkward. is enjoyable because Paxman seems in your interests. And at last the great act is improved. I like a bit of The interview with Palin is probably to have met somebody even more helmsman has decreed that it is time interpersonal tension on a podcast the best so far. Occasional descents ferocious than he is, rendering him for a great leap forward into narrative and Januszczak’s endless needling into grumpy old man territory will kittenishly compliant. fiction podcasts [that’s enough of Grosvenor about his posh amuse or annoy you (“If you drop So far, a self-interested fear of autocratic posturing — ed]. background works excellently. Plus litter you’re the sort of person who boredom has led me to neglect Tracks, in its fifth series, is the there’s loads of great stuff about doesn’t give a shit about the sort of narrative fiction podcasts in this award-winning BBC podcast that’s Artemisia Gentileschi. It’s one of the surroundings other people have to live column, but this podcast is about you, supposed to have dragged audio shows I never miss for a reason. the times | Friday November 13 2020 1GT 11 television & radio Will Covid mean it’s finally last orders for pubs?

ELLIE KYNASTON/BONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS Time for a celebrity chef off the box Suffice to say, as Kerridge lumbered to ride to the rescue? That’s what the between breweries and meetings with James title Saving Britain’s Pubs with Tom an ex-minister, the boo-hiss pubcos Kerridge suggested. However, not did not come out of this well. Next Jackson even the affable and clearly very savvy week we’ll hear their side of the story. Kerridge can do anything about Covid, All the landlords in this programme and this first episode was filmed in late were good people, loving their locals TV review 2019, another era. But this isn’t the and looking after them even over their latest Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares- own pockets. In the Golden Anchor in style schedule filler either. south London the crowd of regulars As public-service TV it was valuable were allowed to play dominoes for for explaining the universal challenges hours rather than actually drinking already faced by publicans. The much. Yet at points like this the predicament confronting the White programme reminded you of the value Hart in Chilsworthy, Cornwall — of pubs in our lives. And it hasn’t even even with its view over the Tamar got to the Covid crisis yet. If you have Saving Britain’s Pubs Valley — was attracting customers ever enjoyed a pint in a pub, this is BBC Two from further afield than their loyal a series you should be watching. {{{{( locals. It’s a story that will be familiar Another British institution that’s University Challenge to so many rural pubs. been experiencing declining on-the- BBC Two Kerridge offered his creative night totals is Children in Need. It’s {{((( solution for the White Hart, but it tonight, but first came a jolly curtain- was a freehold, and for pubs tied to raiser in the form of University ur pub doors are shut, a pub company (or “pubco”) such Challenge: Children in Need Special, the beer barrels are empty as the Prince Albert in Stroud, near in which BBC faces took on ITV ones. and pint glasses stand Gloucester, there are the unavoidable The questions were often Pudsey the Ountouched in the dark. iniquities of the “beer tie”. bear level, covering Tiger King rather It’s a terrible irony for The harsh terms from the company than trinomial expansion. No wonder British pubs, already in decline since that owns the building means that the Jeremy Paxman wasn’t presenting. 2000, with about 12 closing every landlord has to pay a higher price for Instead we had the BBC presenter week. The full lockdown had the beer, thus forcing them to sell it at Kirsty Wark, who made the best quip reminded everyone of the value a higher price. Between that, the rising when she said: “I promise I’ll not show of a draught pint sipped amid taxes and rents, the Prince Albert’s any bias, and may the best publicly convivial strangers, yet here they are friendly tenant landlords, Lottie funded broadcaster win.” Well, it’s for forced to close again. This year the and Miles, whose only fault is their charity and we should support the pubs’ decline isn’t about natural generosity to their punters, are making good cause; to donate, ask Pudsey — selection, it’s manslaughter. nothing for themselves. Tom Kerridge addressed the challenges faced by publicans he’s not hard to miss right now.

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Backgammon Chris Bray Codeword No 4119 Train Tracks No 1173

Think for yourself He has two obvious plays, 11/5, 6/5, making his 5-pt and obeying Backgammon is largely a game of Falafel’s Law, or 13/7, 8/7, making pattern recognition. You cannot his bar-pt. Over the board, Black © PUZZLER MEDIA become a strong player until you quickly played 11/5, 6/5 and was have built a mental library of ref- disappointed to lose the game on erence positions to aid your deci- the very next roll when White sion-making process. In addition, rolled 65, playing 24/13, with an we learn useful maxims that can unassailable racing lead. be applied time and time again to This was an occasion to ignore aid us in making the right moves. Falafel’s Law. Black should notice One such maxim is Falafel’s how poorly White’s fives and sixes Law: “If you can make your 5-pt, play if Black has made his bar-pt. do so, and worry later about what He should further observe that else you could have done.” The law while his 5-pt remains open after is right far more often than not. A 13/7, 8/7, he holds his 11-pt which is second maxim is this: “Prime an six pips away from that open point. anchor but attack a blot.” That structure will make it very The problem is that maxims will difficult for White to organise the only take you so far. You have to escape of her last rear checker. learn when to ignore them and to Furthermore, Black will be well- think for yourself. In this week’s placed to make the 5-pt next turn. position White has escaped one The key here is get the priorities rear checker, has a healthy lead in right. First make the bar-point, the race and is now trying to es- blocking White’s sixes, and then Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village cape her other rear checker. Our seek to improve the prime. B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each second maxim would imply the Following maxims will only take row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails. blot should be attacked but that is you so far, since tactical consider- The track cannot cross itself. not a practical plan for Black. ations will often overrule them. Therefore, he needs to adopt the Look how poorly White’s 65 strategy of trying to prime that would have played if Black had Win a Dictionary & Thesaurus rear checker. made the correct move. Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x2 box contains Every letter in this crossword-style grid has been substituted for a number from 1 the digits 1 to 6 to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters already provided to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the main grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the alphabet have been accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded. Yesterday’s solution, right

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Lexica No 5569 No 5570 Winners will receive a Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus Solve the puzzle and text in the numbers in the three Winning Move S U A E K L W I E H Y shaded boxes. Text TIMES followed by a space, then your three numbers, eg, TIMES 123, plus your name, CTES White to play. address and postcode to 84901 (UK only), by midnight. ______Or enter by phone. Call 09012 925274 (ROI 1516 303 501) áWDWDWDWi]This position is from Bazeev- ROOMby midnight. Leave your three answer numbers (in any Bok, “Titled Tuesday”, chess.com order) and your contact details. àDW!RDBDp]2020. E OT Calls cost £1 (ROI €1.50) plus your telephone company’s ßbDWDpgWD]This position is winning for ERDRnetwork access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard ÞDWDWDWDW]White thanks to his material network charge. Winners will be picked at random from advantage. However, he must be NSR all correct answers received. One draw per week. Lines ÝW1WDPDWD]careful as his king is exposed close at midnight tonight. If you call or text after this time you will not be entered but will still be charged. ÜDWDWDW)W]and, in fact, Black is threatening D LU 1 ... Qe1+ 2 Kg2 Qf1 mate. White SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm). ÛWDWDWDW)]could consolidate with 1 Qf4 but O R SOM J M O A N D E ÚDWDWDWIW]instead of retreating he has a way to power through to victory. Slide the letters either horizontally or vertically back into the grid to produce a What are your favourite puzzles in MindGames? WÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈWCan you see how? completed crossword. Letters are allowed to slide over other letters Email: [email protected]

KenKen Difficult No 5111 Futoshiki No 3825 Kakuro No 2784

Fill the grid using the numbers 1 to 9 only. The numbers in each horizontal or vertical run of white squares add up to the total in the .COM triangle to its left or above it. The same number may occur more than once in a row or column, but not within the same run of white squares.

© © 2010 KENKEN PUZZLE & TM NEXTOY. DIST. BY UFS, INC. WWW.KENKEN All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column. In Fill the blank squares so that every row and column contains each thick-line “block”, the target number in the top left-hand each of the numbers 1 to 5 once only. The symbols between corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells in the block, the squares indicate whether a number is larger (>) or smaller

using the operation indicated by the symbol. (<) than the number next to it. © PUZZLER MEDIA the times | Friday November 13 2020 1GT 15 MindGames

times2 Crossword No 8435 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4002 Divide the grid 1 2 3 4 5 6 R into square or DOUBLE DOUBLE

÷ 9 x 5 + 15 – 10 ÷ 4 + 5 x 2 WE EASY 54 IT rectangular 7 IT S blocks, each © PUZZLER MEDIA

AN containing one 8 digit only. Every

R block must TREBLE -1 -20% contain the 9 MEDIUM 10 x 5 + 15 + 1 x 2 /3 + 6 ÷ 8 WE IT OF IT OF IT S number of cells indicated by the 10 AN digit inside it. R 11 12 TREBLE TREBLE 50% 35% DOUBLE HARDER 32 x 6 + 6 +7 ÷ 8 WE

IT IT OF IT OF IT IT S 13 14 15 16 AN 17 No 2787 18 19 20 Polygon Set Square From these letters, make words of Enter each of 21 22 four or more letters, always including the numbers the central letter. Answers must be in from 1 to 9 in 23 the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding the grid, so that capitalised words, plurals, conjugated the six sums 24 verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending work. We’ve in LY, comparatives and superlatives. placed two 25 How you rate 16 words, average; numbers to get 22, good; 25, very good; 29, excellent you started. Each sum Across should be 19 Form of oxygen (5) Yesterday’s answers calculated left 1 Basis for cheese (5) 21 Essence (such as vanilla) (7) abdicate, abed, abide, acedia, acid, adit,

© PUZZLER MEDIA to right or top aide, bated, bead, bide, bidet, cadet, 7 Hospital bed on wheels (7) 23 Strong feeling (7) to bottom. 8 Newness (7) 24 Airport arrival process (5-2) cadi, cedi, dace, dacite, data, date, debit, debt, dice, diet, ecad, edict, edit, iced, 9 Pillared entranceway (7) 25 Delicious (5) idea, tide, tied 10 Musical stage work (5) Please note, BODMAS does not apply 11 Enchant (7) Down 13 Colouring substance (3) 1 Harmony (7) Moderate No 7442 15 Muscle convulsion (3) 2 Show of sketches and Killer Solutions 17 Put in the wrong folder (7) songs, etc (5) Solution to Crossword 8434 3 Programme of studies (8) Quick Cryptic 1743 Codeword 4118 Kakuro 2783 4 Stern or gloomy (4) B L I M P A E R O B I C A M R N U U O 5 Manual dexterity (7) 6 Synthetic fabric (5) R I P P I N G T U R I N E C O M T 7 Put on paper S T E E P L E C H A S E mechanically (11) U L A U N 12 Study of God and G O S P E L F R I G H T religion (8) A S M V A 14 Vacated (7) I N D I S P U T A B L E 16 In a pure manner (7) N E T T L I N L A W T S U N A M I 18 Respond to stimulus (5) Train Tracks 1172 N T A O R N O 20 Drug from poppies (5) Sudoku 11,954 Quintagram Suko 3020 G L A D D E N E A T E N 22 Requests (4) 1 Cynic 2 Truro Need help with today’s puzzle? Call 0905 757 0143 to check the 3 Myopic answers. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s 4 As usual network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). 5 Sideswipe

Brain Trainer Bridge Andrew Robson Easy 100; Medium 27; Harder 77

Cell Blocks 4001 Set Square 2786 Lexica 5567 79. Playing third-hand too low Dealer: South, Vulnerability: Neither Sudoku 11,955 HBOW ♠K2 When dummy has only low cards, ♥10653 MOV E third hand plays high. Really high. ♦ 1083 Deadly No 7443 RDH Here are two analogous situations. ♣AKQJ Killer SU ♠ (A) Dummy ♠10 N 964 ♥ ♥ HEALER West ♣97653 East J9742 W E AQ8 ♦ ♦ T ♣Q1082 --- ♣AJ4 A74 S KJ92 ♣10752 ♣963 Declarer ♠AQJ8753 ♣K ♥K Futoshiki 3824KenKen 5110 Lexica 5568 ♦ ♣ ♥ Q65 In (A), West leads 2 (v say 4 ) ♣84 DIP and dummy plays ♣3. East must Sudoku 11,956 not insert ♣J, perhaps hoping to S W N E FAR I win a trick with this lower card. 1♠ Pass 2♣ Pass WBOG How can playing ♣J be right? If it 2♠ Pass 4♠ End AEG does turn out West has ♣KQ ♠ ♥ DREARY (unlikelyy — West would have led Contract: 4 , Opening Lead: 4 the ♣K), winning with ♣A will do EM you no harm (your partnership How the Defence went have all the winners whatever you West guessed to lead ♥4 v 4♠ and Tetonor 100 Word watch do). You must win ♣A, a classic East gambled by playing ♥Q. Oops. Lava-lava (a) A Polynesian third hand plays high. When A grateful declarer won their bare 176 30 33 162 skirtlike garment ♣ Namma hole (c) A natural well declarer’s K falls, you know ♥K and could now draw trumps Killer 7440 11 x 16 10 + 20 6 + 27 6 x 27 ♣ in a rock you’ve done the right thing. and cash the AKQJ. Twelve tricks. 27 126 34 140 Swivet (c) A state of anxiety, (B) Dummy confusion or excitement (US) ♥ How the Defence should have gone 11+166x213+312x70 Chess — Winning Move West 8762 East ♥ ♥ ♥QJ104 --- ♥A953 After 4, 3, it cannot gain for 27 33 182 72 1 Rd8+! Bxd8 (1 ... Kg7 2 Rg8+ East to play ♥Q. After all, if West Kh6 3 Qf4+ mates) 2 Qe5+ Bf6 Declarer ♥ ♥ ♥ 6+217+267x262+70 ♥K does hold K, A and Q are 3 Qxf6 mate. In the game equals. However, if declarer holds 20093 25 144 White strangely missed the ♥ point of his own play with 2 In (B), West leads Q (v say ♥K, possibly singleton, clearly East 10x203x319+169x16 ♠ ♥ Qxd8+ and after 2 ... Kg7 the 4 ), top of a sequence denying must play A — third hand high, game fizzled out to a draw the ♥K. Many Easts are reluctant really high. Quiz to playy ♥A on their partner’s ♥Q When declarer’s ♥K falls under 1 Flambé 2 Doctor [John] Dolittle 3 Horse 4 The Last Supper ♥ As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column, Killer 7441 5 Octavian (later Augustus). His foes, Cassius and Brutus, and mistakenly play low (perhaps East’s A, they know they must every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set an encouraging signal of ♥9). committed suicide 6 The Price Is Right 7 Black Rod or Lady switch to diamonds, dummy’s of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number or Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod — to hear the speech Wrong — now declarer wins her weakness. They cleverly switch to in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted from the throne in the Lords 8 Symphony No 9 [in D minor] singleton ♥K. Even if declarer’s ♦J, just beating dummy’s highest ♥ lines, a digit cannot be repeated. or the Choral Symphony 9 Mary Quant 10 Pamela Voorhees K is not singleton, (eg partner card, a Surround Play.y Declarer (known in the film as Mrs Voorhees, Jason’s mother) has ♥QJ10 and declarer ♥K4), it must cover with ♦Q (or ♦J wins); ♥ Call 0901 293 11 La Rochefoucauld or François VI, Duc de La won’t cost to play the A on part- however, West wins ♦A and leads Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Rochefoucauld 12 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 13 Tosa ner’s ♥Q. And if you need to ♦7. East beats dummy’s ♦8 with ♦9 6263 before midnight to receive four clues for any of today’s puzzles. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network 14 Gymnastics. Aurelia Dobre won individual all-around, make an important switch, it and cashes ♦K. One down. balance beam, and team all-around golds at the 1987 Artistic could be vital. [email protected] access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). Gymnastics World Championships 15 The Magnificent Seven 13.11.20

Word watch Sudoku Mild No 11,957 Difficult No 11,958 Fiendish No 11,959 David Parfitt

Lava-lava a A skirtlike garment b Seaweed jelly c Thank you Namma hole a An astronomical phenomenon b A wombat’s den c A natural well in a rock Swivet a A bird of the swallow family b A rotating cake stand c A state of anxiety or excitement Answers on page 15 © PUZZLER MEDIA Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt Suko No 3020

ALAMY 1 The name of which 11 Which French cooking procedure means novelist (1613-80), aka “flamed” in French? Prince de Marcillac, is known for his Maxims 2 The parrot Polynesia (1665) and Memoirs? and two-headed pushmi-pullyu appear in 12 Which overseas Hugh Lofting’s stories collectivity is the sole about which physician? remnant of France’s once vast possessions in 3 Rosinante, crowbait, North America? hack, jade and nag are names for a broken- 13 Named after a former down or worn-out what? province of Shikoku, 15 what is the only breed 4 Which c 1495-98 still used legally in fresco by Leonardo da on the original US Beethoven’s final Japanese dog fighting? Vinci depicts a scene version of which TV complete symphony? from Matthew 26:21-28? game show? 14 The Romanian mother 9 Which English fashion of the four YouTube 5 Which future Roman 7 At the opening of designer (b 1934) stars known as the Dobre emperor was one of the parliament, who created a black five- Brothers was a world Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so victors at the Battle of summons members of the petalled daisy logo that champion in which sport? that the number in each circle is equal to Philippi in October House of Commons to became her trademark? the sum of the four surrounding spaces, 42BC? attend the upper house? 15 Which western movie and each colour total is correct 10 Who is the killer in remake (2016) is pictured? 6 The pricing game 8 Premiered in Vienna the first Friday the 13th For interactive puzzles visit Plinko debuted in 1983 in 1824, what is film (1980)? Answers on page 15 thetimes.co.uk The Times Quick Cryptic No 1744 by Trelawney

123456 Across Down 1 Develop simple diet — you 2 Tablet not finished by serious 7 might be punished for religious traveller (7) breaking it! (5,5) 3 School’s collection of bones 8 9 8 Assist the man with logistics, reduced by half (4) initially, and sulk (4,3) 4 Second option is coffee with 9 A fraction cross inside model last of sugar (6) hotel (5) 5 Romance of my strange quest 10 Emperor found in throne room to take in India (8) 10 11 (4) 6 American former partner 11 Resistance of French fellow wearing brown (5) 12 who’s engaged (8) 7 A hard beret, carelessly worn 13 Clingy sort of scamp, allowed (10) 13 14 15 outside (6) 8 Pubs supporting trade in 14 Under surveillance — and bicycle components (10) 16 irritated! (6) 12 Remarkably quick mice tore 17 Couple with permit for piece of about (8) 17 18 19 jewellery (8) 15 Acrimony over period ship (7) 19 Circus performer to take flight, 16 Hold a famous sailor (6) we hear? (4) 20 18 Reference book is finally left 21 Monarch drawing aid (5) unfinished (5) 22 Take that drunkard to this 21 22 20 Chit-chat conceals irritation location (2,5) (4) 23 Used something on the face? (6,4)

23 Yesterday’s solution on page 15