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Who Put the “Who” in “Hubris”?

by scribe | Jul 15, 2013 | Chess Lecture, ruminations, tournaments

Me, that’s who! I took a look back at my 1977 diary to see if it said anything about the rating jump I wrote about in my last blog post. And in fact, I did write something that was unintentionally hilarious. To set the stage: In September 1976 I played a...

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Who Put the “Who” in “Hubris”?

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