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To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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