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Copyright © 2013 by Allan Topol

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First Edition

ISBN 978-1-59079-999-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Topol, Allan.

   The Russian endgame / Allan Topol. – First edition.

          pages cm

   ISBN 978-1-59079-999-4 (paperback : alk. paper)

I. Title.

PS3570.O64R87 2013

813’.54–dc23

2013006688

Manufactured in the United States of America

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