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

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1210245146.shtml

It begins:

	The chess "Oscar" has nothing to do with Hollywood
	and the AMPAS. It's an award by journalists - those
	polled by the Russian chess magazine 64-Chess
	Review (sadly, I wasn't one of them) - awarded
	annually to the person receiving the most votes for
	the best player of the past year. In what shouldn't
	be a surprise to anyone, Viswanathan Anand won
	going away, with Vladimir Kramnik finishing second
	and Gata Kamsky third in the voting. Kramnik
	probably had a slightly better 2007 than Anand, if
	one doesn't count the world championship in Mexico
	City, but that's a rather...