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The Grandmaster Diet
By FM Mike Klein   
Look at any tournament hall: It is filled with discarded candy wrappers, sugared sodas, and bags of salted snacks.  If you are a culprit, are you missing out on a simple way of improving your tournament results?



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GM Alexandra Kosteniuk is Women’s World Champ
By WGM Jennifer Shahade   
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Miami, Florida may now be home to the latest American to claim a world championship, as GM Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia contemplates a permanent switch to the American federation.



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Spicing up American Top-Level Chess
By GM Eugene Perelshteyn   
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Harikrishna, Onischuk, Kritz and Akobian tie for first in one of the strongest American round robin tournaments in years.



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1998 & 2000 are Golden for CC Players
By FM Alex Dunne   
The latest Golden Knights winners include a man who has now won both premier USCF correspondence chess (CC) events and a retired Hawaiian who only picked up Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess a mere 13 years before the event started.



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Globetrotting Kasparov Plays Harlem
By C. K. Damrosch   
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From Russian jail cell to a simul in New York City, Kasparov continues to live a life of epic proportions.



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Looks at Books: Red Fish, Dead Fish
By WIM Dr. Alexey Root   
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A provocative look at the role of chess during the cold war.


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Chess to Enjoy: The Annual “Chess to Enjoy” Quiz
By GM Andy Soltis   


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