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In 1998, he learned how to play chess and participated in his first chess tournament in 1999. In 2002, he won the Opens II category of the NBL Chess
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Educational Serves, a chess organization that teaches chess as a school program to school children and BruvsChess Media, a Chess News and information Platform.
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1262:Giuoco Piano
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1302:Scotch Game
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1051:Zwischenzug
1036:Undermining
1004:Overloading
964:Combination
813:descriptive
508:Chess table
503:Chess clock
319:Grandmaster
248:Yemi Fawole
198:lichess.org
72:FIDE Master
2057:Categories
2000:joke chess
1953:Chess club
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1098:Middlegame
1086:Initiative
1009:Pawn storm
974:Deflection
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1983:Stockfish
1973:Deep Blue
1968:AlphaZero
1876:paintings
1668:Tablebase
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1936:Related
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336:matches
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1881:poetry
1871:novels
1846:CaĂŻssa
1778:Senior
1768:Junior
1351:Dragon
1346:Alapin
1031:Skewer
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840:Gambit
647:female
608:Europe
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1773:Youth
1763:Blitz
1758:Rapid
1748:Women
1711:Women
1663:Study
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790:Terms
709:Check
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618:Spain
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471:Queen
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1866:film
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