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Article: Making his move: Chess was man's link to sanity during war in Bosnia.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- August 29, 2000
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DALLAS _ They met at the Tuzla Hotel. They slipped out of their homes and apartments, hurrying along the deserted streets of a city battered by mortar and artillery shelling, listening for the whistle of a stray bullet from an unseen sniper.
They gathered inside the old banquet room to feast on chess. These men, of different ethnic backgrounds and faiths, did what chess players everywhere do: They played tournaments. Instead of money, the prizes were a chicken, a sack of potatoes or, rarest of all, a bottle of cooking oil _ one of the scarcest and most expensive items during the war in Bosnia.
When power went out, which was often, they played in ...
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