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- Subject: Re: PAPAL CHESS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.082414.9597@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- From: wallingf@nova.cs.uni.edu ( Eugene Wallingford )
- Date: 28 Dec 92 08:24:13 -0600
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- Paul Rubin tells of sources on the Pope and chess:
- >G. Koltanowski in "Chessnicdotes" tells a story of trying to get
- >a game with the Pope when the Pope visited San Francisco.
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- Soon after Pope John Paul II was elected, Pal Benko ran a column
- in Chess Life on the Popoe and his chess history. If I remember
- correctly, this article included a few of Wojtyla's compositions.
- Check late 1978 or 1979.
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- ~~~~ Eugene Wallingford ~~~~ Dept of Computer Science ~~~~
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