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In May 2011, Seirawan returned from hiatus to competitive chess, playing for the U.S. team in the world team championship in China, where he won silver in first alternate. He had wins versus top GMs
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Seirawan is widely known for his expert commentary in live broadcasts on the
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Lectures by GM Yasser
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The "Winning Chess" series was originally published by
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397:- Introduction to chess and some basic strategies
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506:Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions
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643:"GM Yasser Seirawan Lecture Series"
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836:"Interview with Yasser Seirawan"
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1071:United States Chess Champion
1040:United States Chess Champion
1001:United States Chess Champion
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1759:Chess on a really big board
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940:chess games at 365Chess.com
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308:list, Seirawan had an
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212:1981 world title match
140:United States champion
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788:Snelschaakmarathon.nl
583:on February 20, 2012.
550:King's Indian Defence
435:Winning Chess Tactics
419:Winning Chess Endings
401:Winning Chess Tactics
360:Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
180:Last Exit on Brooklyn
154:Seirawan was born in
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1650:Falcon–hunter chess
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1280:Millennium 3D chess
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664:. The Week in Chess
606:(2). Archived from
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168:Seattle, Washington
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2171:Fairy Chess Review
1896:Three-player chess
1736:Tutti-frutti chess
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1400:Knight relay chess
1194:Displacement chess
1124:Larry Christiansen
1116:Alexander Shabalov
1019:Larry Christiansen
994:Larry Christiansen
952:player profile at
846:on August 21, 2013
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576:Sports Illustrated
544:The chess opening
395:Play Winning Chess
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818:Chess Notes
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2978:Categories
2956:See also:
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2566:Stripunsky
2410:Fedorowicz
2390:De Firmian
2232:FIDE title
1972:Chaturanga
1955:Historical
1804:Wolf chess
1745:Unorthodox
1605:Unorthodox
1585:Rollerball
1545:Apocalypse
1517:Kriegspiel
1507:Dice chess
1502:Dark chess
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1256:Grid chess
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1033:Lev Alburt
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714:Chess News
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556:References
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291:Péter Lékó
238:Jan Timman
192:Washington
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150:Early life
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1570:Dragonfly
1555:Chessence
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1365:Chessplus
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954:Chess.com
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