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Drunk grandmaster

A TOP French chess player turned up drunk and dozed off after just 11 moves in an international tournament in Kolkata, India, losing the round on technical grounds, domestic media reported yesterday. Grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev arrived for Thursday's match against India's Praveen Kumar in such an inebriated state that he could hardly sit in his chair and soon fell asleep, resting his head on the table, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported. Indian papers carried pictures of the world No. 58 sleeping and the organizers' futile attempts to wake him up.



 

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