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Could the next king of English chess be a Russian from St Petersburg?

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Could the next king of English chess be a Russian from St Petersburg?"The rain, the clouds, the lack of sun - I feel at home here," Nikita Vitiugov says. London, the chess grandmaster remarks, feels similar to St Petersburg, in terms of the weather, at least.
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