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October 20: Today’s Game, Winning Move

Raymond Keene
The Times
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Raymond Keene
The Times

Wilhelm the first

Today I pick up on my thought from last Saturday’s column that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may have modelled the physical appearance of his hero from the science fiction novel The Lost World on the first official world champion, Wilhelm Steinitz.

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