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50 years ago: Fischer-Spassky, Secret weapons?

After draws in games 14 and 15, Fischer still had a three-point lead in the World Championship match, and the Spassky side was getting nervous. The Champion was fighting hard, but not getting any points. Suspicion arose that Fischer might be using secret weapons: hypnosis, devices planted in the lights or the chairs, and even perhaps assistance from an "IBM" (Russian for "computer" at the time). All this was formally investigated, while Fischer continued to coast. ....

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50 years ago: Fischer leads 9:6

Fischer leads by three points. The Match of the Century was coming to a head, with Spassky, despite all his efforts, unable to reduce the deficit. "I felt that Fischer was like a large fish in my hands," he lamented, "one that was slippery and hard to hold on to. At certain moments I let him slip. And then again the psychological torment would begin. Everything had to be begun again from the start ." Spassky was beginning to feel despondent. | Photo: Skáksamband Íslands ....

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This spy thriller set in Sri Lanka can give you the shivers


This spy thriller set in Sri Lanka can give you the shivers
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March 03, 2021 11:44 IST
In his second novel ‘Yesterday’s Ghosts’, Nikhil Pradhan explores an unconventional form to tell a spy story set in war-torn Sri Lanka
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In his second novel ‘Yesterday’s Ghosts’, Nikhil Pradhan explores an unconventional form to tell a spy story set in war-torn Sri Lanka
The novel opens in a grove in Sri Lanka’s North, peopled by Tamils who for three decades fought the Sinhala-dominated government for Eelam, their own version of a homeland. In this disconcerting patch of jungle with its dapple of leaf and shade, where trees festooned with creepers block out sunny skies, lies buried a secret that men of the Black Team have carried in their hearts for 30 years. Betrayal and deceit have been fellow travellers in the lives of the team and Nikhil Pradhan probes whether their dark deeds will go to the grave with them or send ....

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