[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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