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...Final leading scores were Adams 7.5/9, Steven Jones 6.5, Dan Fernandez, Harry Grieve, Matthew Wadsworth and Yichen Han 6....
...However, this success masks the fact that there are just four active grandmasters — Michael Adams, Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones — rated over 2600, the level of the world top 250, and all four are...
...England’s current team of Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones are all over 30, and since the late 1990s no new players have got anywhere near a world top 100 ranking....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...My favourite website is Vitsœ, a furniture company run by a friend of mine called Mark Adams. The website is just so cleanly done; I can’t fault it....
...Michael Adams for Baden-Baden, Luke McShane for Werder Bremen, and Gawain Jones for Munich, all played the No1 board for their respective teams....
...V for Victory. With the Bank of England set to raise rates, the sooner the government gets its act together the better. Disagree? Thoughts in the usual place....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...England will be represented there by the No1, Michael Adams, and by one of David Howell, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane....
...Guildford will field Michael Adams, David Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones, effectively the England national team....
...McShane scored 7.5, Adams 7, and Gawain Jones 6.5, while the youngest and lowest ranked player, the Cambridge economics student Matthew Wadsworth, 20, totalled a promising 5/11....
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...To boot few now expect a swift, dramatic V-shaped return to growth in the third quarter, with economists now suggesting quarterly GDP profiles are more likely to look like bathtubs, or the Nike swoosh....
...“The shape is almost a perfect V and offers a glimpse of hope that economic effect might be shortlived,” said Daniel Bergvall, economist at SEB....
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
...England’s trio of Michael Adams, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane were all eliminated in rounds one and two of the $1.6m World Cup in Siberia....
...Adams, Jones and Howell are all professionals and ready for action, while McShane is a City financial analyst and trader and arguably the world’s leading amateur....
...Howell recovered, won a speed tie-break, and met Jones in the semi-final. Adams has been the national No1 for nearly 20 years now, so every event like this is a test of his status....
...Gibraltar naturally has a high-class English entry, led by the core of the national team Michael Adams, Gawain Jones, David Howell and Nigel Short. 2299 Viktor Korchnoi v Jan Timman, Zurich 1995....
...Goodbye, Vitor The outgoing no. 2 at the ECB has given a wide-ranging farewell interview to the FT’s Claire Jones....
...Gillian Tett: Relearning the rules of Adam Smith Many of the core ideas behind Adam Smith’s vision of capitalism are being ignored. Four basic concepts need to be relearned....
...Adam Grant, a professor of psychology at Wharton business school, thinks too much authenticity is a bad thing....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect inflation to rise to a little below 3% in mid-2017....
...V. Students and steers I know precisely two things about Christ’s Hospital when the Mini rolls into the parking lot....
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