CHESS
September 2010
The Magnus Carlsen phenomenon has a precedent: that of the marauding Viking, Bent Larsen
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July/August 2010
'Perhaps it was Philidor's prodigious musical intuition that somehow gave him a special insight into how the chess pieces should be harmonised'
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June 2010
The supremacy of logic over superstition allowed Vishy Anand to become a worthy world champion
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May 2010
Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga, goes up against the humourless Mikhail Botvinnik
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