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Short Fuse Book Review: A Doctorate in Chess Memoir Drag
June 26, 2011
The theme of fading passion would have been enough. It is the theme of many a love story. It would have been enough for this chess story. But author Robert R. Desjarlais won’t let it be enough.
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