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December 2009
A world championship match, held 100 years ago next month, may have been partly responsible for the loser's death
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November 2009
Magnus Carlsen, the 19 year-old Norwegian wunderkind, is the next chess genius
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October 2009
Codebreaker Hugh Alexander deserves much more than the obscurity into which his name has fallen
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September 2009
It is Korchnoi's fighting spirit that has enabled him to achieve victory, aged 78, in a young man's game
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