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Positions from State Championship (Part 3)

by scribe | Sep 12, 2014 | endings, games, people, tournaments

I’m back online! And as I promised, I’d like to show you a position from my last game in the CalChess state championship, against Michael Lei Wang (a 14-year-old Class A player, not to be confused with Michael Wang the 12-year-old master, whom I beat...

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