Chess
Published Date:
18 July 2008
By John B Henderson
IT was like stepping back into the fire at the Poikovsky Karpov tournament in Siberia, as Alexei Shirov jumped into the lead with three back-to-back wins reminiscent of his "Planet Shirov" days of glory.
It was called that when Shirov was at his ebullient best throughout the 1990s because his games were like nothing you'd ever seen in this world and almost as if they had been created in a little parallel universe he lived in at the chessboard.
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The full article contains 362 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
17 July 2008 7:26 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Chess & Bridge
