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Competition

Cudgel your brains Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1591 you were chal- lenged to write a 16-line rhopalic blank verse epistle with four words per line. Yes, it's tough at the top.......

Chess

Player power Raymond Keene A t their annual congress in Puerto Rico last month, Fide, the World Chess Federation, took various controversial de- cisions concerning the 1990......