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\"Dana's<\/p>\n

Welcome to Dana Mackenzie’s chess blog! I am a national master, two-time former champion of North Carolina, and a regular lecturer at www.chesslecture.com<\/a>. Don’t let all of that stuff impress you, though. Deep down inside, I’m just an ordinary player. I don’t play chess for money or glory, just for the love of the game.<\/p>\n

In “real life,” I’m a freelance science writer. My latest book, The Universe in Zero Words<\/a>, a history and celebration of 24 great equations in math and science, was published in April 2012 by Princeton University Press. I also wrote The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be<\/a> (Wiley, 2003). Because this is a chess blog I won’t say any more about them here, but please visit my main website<\/a> if you want to learn more. I may write a chess book someday, too. This blog is actually a small step towards that goal.<\/p>\n

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