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

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1216932626.shtml

It begins:

	Magnus Carlsen continued the win-with-White,
	draw-with-Black pattern, easily holding in an
	old-fashioned Slav against Alexander Onischuk. This
	draw allowed Evgeny Alekseev to reclaim a share of
	the lead, thanks to a surprisingly easy win over
	Yannick Pelletier on the black side of a Ragozin
	Defense. Black obtained a queenside majority from
	the opening, and White, tied down in the attempt to
	blockade it, allowed things to get out of hand
	elsewhere and lost without much of a fight. In a
	way, that's not too surprising, as Pelletier and
	Etienne Bacrot, his companion in last place, have
	been getting kicked around pretty...