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

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1205302197.shtml

It begins:

	Who? Yes, exactly. But he's a player those of us
	with a sense of history would have expected to hear
	about. He recently came (back) to my attention when
	looking through some old books on Anatoly Karpov's
	early career. One of Karpov's big early successes
	came in the European Junior Championship in
	Groningen 1967-68. In the preliminary group he was
	satisfied merely to qualify for the final, which he
	did in a tie for second that included Jan Timman,
	Gert Ligterink and others, half a point behind our
	mystery man. Those scores did not carry over into
	the final, and when...