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‘CoE cannot be only for contracted players’:VVS Laxman on India’s cricket pipeline

Synopsis: Sicily, Madrid, France and Berlin have all left their mark on chess vocabulary. The Sicilian Defence dates back to Giulio Cesare Polerio, while Ruy López gave the Spanish Opening one of its first systematic analyses. The French Defence emerged from a 1834 correspondence

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MANUJA VEERAPPA30 Aug 2026, 02:48 amUpdated 14h ago1 min readIndiaIndia
‘CoE cannot be only for contracted players’: VVS Laxman on India’s cricket pipeline

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Synopsis: Sicily, Madrid, France and Berlin have all left their mark on chess vocabulary. The Sicilian Defence dates back to Giulio Cesare Polerio, while Ruy López gave the Spanish Opening one of its first systematic analyses. The French Defence emerged from a 1834 correspondence match between Paris and London. Berlin Defence, meanwhile, was revived by Vladimir Kramnik in his 2000 world championship match against Garry Kasparov.

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Source: Times of India · MANUJA VEERAPPA. Published 30 Aug 2026, 02:48 am.

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