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with late night phone calls coming from his handlers in Moscow

At two months in duration the World Chess Championship was the ultimate sporting marathon

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Gonzalez champions an aggressive variant of the Dutch against 2 Nf3 and outlines a simple but effective French Defence repertoire to counter 2 e4

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