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of the last spots in the World championship. The World
Championship started in March 2002 and is as of January 2006 still ongoing, but on 7 January it became clear that none of the other contestants could overtake Bern any longer. Bern has completed all his games, scoring 10½/16 in this tournament as well. Two other players have the same number of points as he does, but Bern has better tiebreak scores. The slowness of conventional postcards in the seventeenth championship led to the winner of the
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