CHESS
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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May 2013
Vladimir Kramnik best games display a fusion of elegance and force that give the impression that this is as well as chess could be played
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April 2013
Gennadi Sosonko's intimate personal knowledge of the Soviet Union's greatest grandmasters is unrivaled — and he was a useful player himself
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