[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/1187765901.shtml
It begins:
Nick De Firmian's tribulations in the Arctic Chess
Challenge had been noted in some earlier posts
(here and here), and now we'll conclude the sad
summary with one final unfortunate report. In round
7, De Firmian was paired with the 17-year old,
2122-rated Norwegian player Johannes Kvisla, and
the two debated a Najdorf line that was popular and
extremely important in the 1980s, but which has
large disappeared nowadays. Surprisingly, while
this variation is right up De Firmian's alley, it
was the youngster who bowled a strike....
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