[chessmind-announce] New post at The Chess Mind

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Chess Mind.  You can read it at:

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1156722185.shtml

It begins:

	Chess fans periodically bemoan draws, especially
	short, lifeless non-efforts. And when grandmasters
	want to draw quickly, one of the standard weapons
	olive branches in their arsenal garden is the
	Exchange Slav. As a drawing “weapon”, it’s so
	potent it could almost be used as a soporific –
	but only almost. One of the beauties of chess is
	that when two players want to fight, they can
	overcome just about any opening, and that’s what
	we’ll see in this week’s game, between American
	Yasser Seirawan and then-Soviet (from the Ukraine;
	now Slovenian) Alexander Beliavsky, from the 1988
	World Cup event in Brussels....