Word: iraida
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...next piece “Iraida,” a duet, featuring Lynch and Palmieri, was the best piece of the night. Dedicated to Palmieri’s wife, “Iraida” started out plaintive and slow, with both musicians playing restrained, subdued parts, only to explode in the center into action, putting their virtuosic talent on display...
...summed up by one player who observed: "Well, we've still got Spassky." Spassky himself is happy that chess has a Bobby. "It would be an awfully dull world without him," he says. Like Fischer, Spassky comes from a broken home and also had a games-playing sister. (Iraida went on to become the Soviet checkers champion.) During World War II, Spassky's parents were separated; he was evacuated from Leningrad and lived for a period in an orphanage in the Kirov Region. He learned the game when he was five. At ten, he played former World Champion Botvinnik...
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