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This, That and the Other

by scribe | Jun 23, 2015 | chess clubs, current news, people, ruminations, tournaments

So many things going on at once, and I’d like to write a separate post on each of them but then it would take too long. So here are three separate, unrelated pieces of news at once. This My rating graph since 1991, downloaded from the USCF website. It’s...

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