Karjakin Going to Work as a Spassky Impersonator?
Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 2:48PM
Dennis Monokroussos in Boris Spassky, Sergey Karjakin, Yuri Averbakh

It isn't really the focus of this story, which notes a chess gathering that included 95-year-old Yuri Averbakh, 80-year-old Boris Spassky, 27-year-old Sergey Karjakin, and 4-year-old Misha Osipov, but do take a look at Karjakin's new hair style. Perhaps Karjakin is hoping that he, like Spassky, will face his conquerer in a second match and come out ahead this time?

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