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Young contenders say they like the game's mental challenge. "It's like a pool and chess game on grass," said David Wong of Brown University...
...refuseniks, the couple was not allowed to compete in chess tournaments. But seven years out of the limelight did not destroy the couple's reputation. "The KGB couldn't take away our prestige in the chess world," Gulko said...
...Harvard Chess Club yesterday appointed Boris Gulko, a celebrated chess champion and Soviet dissident, `Grandmaster in Residence' at Harvard University...
Gulko and his wife Anna Achsharumova, who are fellows of Harvard's Russian Research Center, will also coach the chess team and give public lectures...
...addition, the two, who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1986, announced yesterday that they intend to vie for the World Championship in chess, as representatives of the United States...