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Genius In The Background

Profiles twelve chess stars with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous - they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous.
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Profiles twelve chess stars with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous
- they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov & Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies & puzzles of such elegance & cleverness that they deserve to be famous.

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