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50 Years of Chess: Year 8

by scribe | Oct 17, 2020 | games, off-topic, openings, ruminations, tournaments

After spending three posts on 1978, a huge year in my chess life and my personal life, let’s move on to 1979. It was my last year of college (spring) and first year of graduate school (fall), and a very strange year. Coming back from Russia to America, I felt...

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