Summary
AN EMINENT writer on chess recorded that Jonathan Rowson's triumph in the British Championship was achieved by "holding his nerve". Not to demean the author, but it was probably the Snickers bar that clinched it.
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Chocolate Bar Chess Champion
But it was Rowson's 21-year-long "Zen" defiance of the "inevitable" effects of the disease - blindness and often premature death - that made him the first Scot to win the...
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