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

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1150608345.shtml

It begins:

	One of the greatest events in 19th century chess
	was the long match in 1893 between Russian Mikhail
	Chigorin and German Siegbert Tarrasch. These two
	giants of the game were among the absolute best
	players in the world at the end of the Steinitz
	era, and this match could be seen as selecting the
	champion's crown prince. As it turned out, however,
	the battle between these stylistic antipodes wound
	up a draw (+9 -9 =4(!)), even though Tarrasch was
	ahead for most of the match....