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The United States is finishing up its schedule in the preliminary round of the Coorespondence CHess Olympiad XIII and, I'm happy to say, we have a chance to qualify for the final. The following game was the fourth to the last to finish. Needless to say, we needed a win here to have a chance to go on. The game is quite instructive. Check out Black's Bc8. Structurally bad in the line of the French Defense, the bishop never moves.


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