Word: gudmundur
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Prophetic Dreams. The contestants had no monopoly on strangeness. Throughout the frantic days when it appeared that the match would be canceled, Gudmundur Thorarinsson comported himself with the kind of cool dignity befitting the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation and a Reykjavik city councilman. Except, that is, for that one moment when, by the light of the midnight sun, he assured some foreign friends that the match would take place because, based on consultations with a spiritualist, "prophetic dreams" and "certain powers" unique to his people, "I know a miracle will happen...
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