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Soft Pawn - William Hartston, Bill Tidy
Soft Pawn
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781857441451 (1857441451)
Publisher: Cadogan Books
Pages no: 94
Edition language: English
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Maybe the best piece of chess humour ever. If you're not a chessplayer, you're unlikely to get most of the jokes - but if you are, I recommend it strongly! My favourite chapter is the Shakespeare pastiche, "Victor the Second, Part One", about the 1978 Korchnoi-Karpov match. An extract:FIRST SECOND: ...
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Soft Pawn - William Hartston, Bill Tidy
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