Howard Wood

Howard Wood is the Executive Director of Sales and Marketing at social.chessclublive.com.

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Greet is great at 150th Dundee Anniversary

7/29/2017 – Scottish IM Andrew Greet won the grandmaster tournament with 6 points from 9 games. GMs Simon Williams, Martin Petr, Spyridon Kapnisis and Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant shared 2nd-5th places, a half point back. At look at the back story of the tournament. | Photo: Brendan O'Gorman

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The Beliavsky Plan against the Stonewall Dutch

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