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Competition

Patchwork quilt Jaspistos THE MACALL AN • ii IN COMPETITION NO. 2016 you were asked for an odd, rhyming poem consisting of single lines belonging to poems by well- known poets.......

Chess

Golden oldie Raymond Keene CONTRARY to my prediction, Anatoly Karpov (aged 46) has won the Fide cham- pionship at Lausanne in Switzerland. My prognostication favoured......