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This Week's World Chess Column: Remembering Saemisch
Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 6:56PM
In my column this week, I take a look back at the first winner of the Dortmund tournament, German grandmaster Friedrich Saemisch. He's not just the originator (or at least first great popularizer) of 4.a3 against the Nimzo-Indian and the system with 5.f3 against the King's Indian; he was a very fine player in his own right.