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from 1938 to 1940, and its overseas editor in the 1960s and 1970s. Golombek also translated several chess books from
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parents. He was the chess correspondent of the newspaper
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reference site of early first edition
Penguin Books.
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Fischer v Spassky: The World Chess Championship 1972
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223:International Master
192:C. H. O'D. Alexander
84:International Master
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559:(10 January 1995).
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