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roll up your sleeves and prepare to ride herd on tactical fireworks and sharpen your tactical skills

In a lost position

Now I have decided to give the opportunity to anyone who feels like it to enter a grandmaster's laboratory and see my professional approach to various opening lines

Essential coverage of the Grünfeld Defence

And this is exactly what the authors have done with the games of the Swedish world-class player Ulf Andersson

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