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My dream is chess played in every school in India. The Soviets would include a chessboard along with the bride’s trousseau to ensure that the children born of that marriage knew the rules of chess.

— Viswanathan Anand

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Since the 1990s technology has taken some of the sheen off the Russian trainers and their methods.

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