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Husbands second in international tournament - Barbados Today

Barbados’s top rated chess player international master Orlando Husbands returned to impressive form when he placed second in the master’s section of the Suriname Srefidensi Online International Blitz Tournament held over the weekend.  The tournament was played on the chess.com website with a time limit of five minutes with a three second increment for each player to complete their game. Playing […]

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