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Cudzoziemiec

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Chess goes pop!
« on: 13 July, 2012, 12:09:00 pm »
An American patzer who lives in Russia where he runs a publishing firm, Andrew Paulson, has obtained worldwide marketing rights to chess championships from Fide for ten years. He hopes to make it a spectator sport. Here's an article which is Wowbagger-friendly, but does this mean Wowbagger will end up knowing loads of pop culture figures?!
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Re: Chess goes pop!
« Reply #1 on: 13 July, 2012, 12:10:48 pm »
I already do. I understand that in Iceland Nigel Short is better-known than Bjork.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Chess goes pop!
« Reply #2 on: 13 July, 2012, 01:22:44 pm »
Nigel Sjort?  :D
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