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Posted on December 23, 2013 by William Byford in Blogs, Chess // 0 Comments

Spotted today on the website of The Independent, a piece on the allegation that one of the rising stars of chess may have been cheating. I suppose that after the advent of chess-playing computers – and now expert chess-playing apps for smart-phones – suspicions relating to top players were bound to re-surface sooner or later.

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