[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/1188274717.shtml

It begins:

	The first part of the headline is obvious, but the
	second and third parts need explanation. So here
	goes. After the regularly schedule of the French
	Championship, 16-year-old GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
	and the older but still relatively young GM
	Vladislav Tkachiev were tied for first, and needed
	to settle things in a rapid and then blitz
	tie-break. The rapid games (15 5) were
	inconclusive, so it was time for blitz (5 5). Now,
	Tkachiev is known as one of those players who loves
	FIDE's decisions to keep speeding things up; I've
	even read quotes from him to the effect that
	he'd...