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Huge youth movement at U.S. Championship

by scribe | May 13, 2013 | current news, games, positions, tournaments

Although I wrote my last post about something fictional, in fact there is real chess news to report! Today Gata Kamsky won his fourth U.S. Chess Championship in an exciting playoff against Alejandro Ramirez that went to an Armageddon game. Without wishing to minimize...

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