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Touch move again

by scribe | Mar 19, 2016 | current news, openings, people, positions, ruminations, tournaments

Leave it to Hikaru Nakamura to give us another lesson in how not to play chess. That is, literally, how not to pick up the pieces and move them. Last year, he taught us not to castle with both hands. (You might remember that in an Armageddon playoff game with Ian...

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