EL FASCINANTE MUNDO DEL AJEDREZ
Author: Jose Luis Barreras Merino
Editorial Arte y Literatura (Havana 2006)
301 pages

Reviewed by Anthony Saidy

IAfter Larry Evans played in Cuba, the FBI harassed him for a year.
The absolute nadir in US-Cuban chess relations was reached in the
1980s, when a Cuban GM won a $10G first prize in the NY Open, and --
whoosh! -- the Treasury Dept. swooped down and seized the check.)

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