Ramirez is not the only one. According to interviews and documents reviewed by Lichess, another prominent American GM has also been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, raising troubling questions about how chess orgs deal with such matters. lichess.org/blog/ZNTniBEAA…

Following the new allegations, Lichess has decided to stop cooperating with STLCC and US Chess due to serious concerns about their accountability. We will not provide them with support, and we will not advertise their events until concrete improvements are made.

EBRD Chief Evaluator Véronique Salze-Lozac'h shares her perspectives on how #innovation can be evaluated and how evaluators can be more innovative. Gain more #evaluation insights at #AsianEvaluationWeek23: asianevaluationweek.adb.org/sessions/paral…

Next on #AsianEvaluationWeek23, Plenary 2: Evaluation Headlines Live! Heads of independent #evaluation discuss how we should refocus our efforts in tackling shared challenges. Watch video: youtu.be/6mkILrtVXHM?si… More details: asianevaluationweek.adb.org/sessions/plena…

Evaluations must be agile, flexible, timely, consequential. So says the panel of heads of evaluations of multilateral development banks. #asianevaluationweek2023 Evaluation at ADB AIIB The EBRD New Development Bank

Next at #AsianEvaluationWeek23 Day 2, 12 September Parallel Session 8 - Are MDBs ready to promote innovation for sustainability and private sector development? asianevaluationweek.adb.org/sessions/paral… #evaluation #sustainabledevelopment

Happening now at #AsianEvaluationWeek23: Are MDBs ready to promote innovation for sustainability and private sector development? Discussing MDBs' opportunities & challenges in financing for innovation, and prospects on the #evaluation experience in examining innovative practices

Coming up at #AsianEvaluationWeek23 Day 2, 12 Sept Boosting young, innovative firms w/ equity support: #evaluation insights asianevaluationweek.adb.org/sessions/paral… Going big, small, & outside your comfort zone: pushing boundaries of #developmenteffectiveness evaluations asianevaluationweek.adb.org/sessions/paral…

The panel at #AsianEvaluationWeek22 Session 16: Infrastructure for Inclusive & #SustainableDevelopment: Experience of the New Development Bank, Global South, and other Key Development Partners Perspectives, opportunities & challenges highlighting lessons learned from #evaluation

🚨 New Working Paper Alert 🚨 "Missing Evidence: Tracking Academic Data Use around the World” documents.worldbank.org/en/publication…

Important links with our work on evaluating progress towards commitments to provide relevant, effective development co-opeartion in line with climate commitments. @DEval_Institute Dr. Martin Noltze EBRD Green IFAD Evaluation M. Alper Dincer IOB

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I am fighting back against campaigns to silence me and retaliate against me for speaking up about sexual violence in chess. I have fought many battles on the chess board and the poker table. This is the most important one.

Read VoxEU’s column based on Chapter 2 of #EBRDtr. cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… Beata Javorcik pablo Anton Grahed

Read VoxEU "Special Economic Zones and the slow path to regional convergence" on #EBRDtr. This is the last column highlighting the findings of our #EBRDtr. By Cevat Giray Aksoy Ralph De Haas Tim Deisemann Pablo García Guzmán Francesco Loiacono Xuanyi Wang cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Now watching GM Gurel vs IM Bulgama in Tata Steel Challengers! Chess is very hard and unforgiving. IM Bulgama played a superb game then a minor slip which followed by a blunder! Kudos to GM Gurel for relentlessly pushing for complications!

🔵 On 7 March, #IFADeval will host a learning event titled ‘Financing Agribusiness micro, small and medium enterprises: insights from evaluation’. 🔎 Learn more here: bit.ly/4blDyuE

#FreestyleChess #Grenke is very entertaining. Please more open #FreestyleChess events!

Nice pop press piece in science on how people in different populations see the world quite differently using visual illusions. Confirms prior work with larger samples and better methods. Mohammad Atari Michael Muthukrishna Asifa Majid science.org/content/articl…

Nice mating sequence. Definitely performing excellent for his age!