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The Practical Decision
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GMMelik
Dec 9, 2016
16 min
18301 Views
What does it mean to be practical in a chess game? GM Melik Khachiyan says it's partly about creating problems for your opponent. Here, he creates just enough difficulties to draw GM Alex Lenderman into the mire and drag him to defeat.
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