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Xie Jun’s meteoric rise to stardom is virtually unprecedented in chess history

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Karolyi/Aplin: Genius in the Background Holz but also contains games fromGenius in the Background introduces brilliant chess that will be unfamiliar to even well read chess players. Twelve chess stars are profiled with examples of their greatest achievements, but these stars are not famous they are geniuses who stay in the background. For example, Pervakov and Afek are not household names but they compose chess studies and puzzles of such elegance and cleverness that they deserve to be famous. Top players such as Garry