CHESS
October 2013
Leonid Stein was a virtuoso player whose unexplained death at 38 robbed the world of his otherworldly attacking brilliance
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September 2013
The softly spoken Cornishman Michael Adams weaves webs around his opponents and strikes when it is too late for his encircled
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July/August 2013
Lothar Schmid was a great referee and a remarkable man: a former lawyer and grandmaster himself, he had the respect of even the respect of even the most temperamental of players
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June 2013
Chess championships in England are often played in dreary municipal halls in grey provincial towns. So I jumped at the chance to compete in 5-star comfort in Thailand
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