“I got into chess when I was in grade two. Of course, I already played at home – my dad is Russian. But I vividly remember sitting in a particular room in Palmerston Public
“I learned chess in France, just before I turned four years old. It happened completely randomly, I was walking down a street to the beach and just happened to see a chess set. I was immediately …
“It was when I was around 16 that I really started to get serious about chess. What happened was I lost a couple games against someone I was used to beating. I had to
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