Last week in a perceptive piece for the Times, Will Pavia animadverted upon the fact that the USA appears to be actively recruiting top chess grandmasters. Pavia focused on attempts to persuade world-ranked no. 2 Fabiano Caruana to defect from representing Italy, and switch allegiance to the USA.
Even more indicative has been the effort made to entice the former Philippine grandmaster Wesley So to adopt the stars and stripes.
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