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...The result has been jumbled teams working in different countries, with an unclear line of command, and morale at an all-time low with very little work getting done, according to several current employees...
...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
...It is in the “golden triangle” bordered by the Champs-Élysées, avenue Montaigne and avenue Georges V; neighbours include couturiers and luxury goods stores such as Céline and Courrèges....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Puzzle 2549 Oleksandr Bortnyk v Jeffery Xiong, Titled Tuesday 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Michael Adams totalled an impressive 8/9 on top board with a performance rating of 2761....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...However, in the boom years of the 1970s to 1990s the very best talents Nigel Short and Michael Adams both preferred to bypass university....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Those figures would inspire confidence in a unit that has suffered high turnover and low morale as important leaders like Julian Salisbury, Chris Kojima and Heather Miner have left recently....
...In an interview with the Financial Times, FDA general secretary Dave Penman blamed high turnover and low morale in the civil service on a “hammering . . . from the party of government”, with several senior...
...However, Gullis added that Sunak had attempted to raise morale with a call to the party to regroup in September: “He was asking all of us to unite behind him when we come back in the autumn....
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Pressure has mounted for the return of objects that are seen to be an important part of the identity of countries in Africa and beyond, such as the Ethiopian treasures in the V&A or the Benin Bronzes scattered...
...Qatalyst Group, the boutique investment bank founded by Silicon Valley banking legend Frank Quattrone, has hired Adam Meister as a managing director in San Francisco....
...Photographer’s assistant, Adam Storm. Stylist’s assistant, Jordan Renou Rohel. Production, SW Studio Paris...
...If you think the political situation in the US now looks terrible, Adam Hochschild is here to remind you that things have previously been much worse....
...Sunak did not give the impression of someone ready to throw in the towel on Wednesday, however, as he sought to raise the morale among Tory MPs with a rousing defence of his new economic plan....
...Michael Adams, now 51, and Nigel Short, now 57, challenged for world titles in their peak years, and both legends were key performers in June when England fought off a strong US challenge to win the world...
...A similar combination of macroeconomics and morale was on Andreessen’s mind this week....
...Puzzle 2494 Magnus Carlsen v Sunya Ganguly, world rapid, Qatar 2016. Black to move and win. In the game, Black chose 1...Rxa4 and only drew. Click here for solution...
...Selby in Yorkshire is the seat of Nigel Adams, who quit in pique after failing to secure the seat in the House of Lords promised to him by Johnson....
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