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Spassky at the Gibraltar Chess Congress 2009

Bits and Pieces #1

By mishanp on November 26, 2010

Boris Spassky on his recovery, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov on Carlsen, Veselin Topalov on his fear of Santa Claus, and Darek Świercz makes Wijk-aan-Zee, with a little help from his trainer. Chess stories from Russia (and “Eastern Europe”) in brief.

Posted in Bits and Pieces, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian | Tagged Candidates Matches, Carlsen, Cultural Village, Danailov, Fischer, Golubev, Ilyumzhinov, Kasparov, Spassky, Sulypa, Świercz, Topalov | 3 Responses

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