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Chess

Two poisoned pawns

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

They say the best way to really know a subject is to write about it. I speculate it worked for the English grandmaster Danny Gormally, whose forthcoming book Tournament Battle Plan (Thinkers Publishing) perhaps inspired him to victory at the British Rapidplay Championships held in Peterborough earlier this month.

It must be said that Gormally was also the top seed.

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