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Competition

Sour Auburn Jaspistos IN COMPETITION NO. 1970 you were invited to update, in heroic couplets, Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village', a descrip- tion of the degeneration of the quality......

Simpson's

IN-THE•STRAND GARRY KASPAROV is not just in con- tention with his rivals of the present day, such as Anand, Kramnik and Karpov, he is also engaged in a battle with the great......