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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/alexander-chernin</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/alexander-kotov</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/alexander-khalifman</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/rashid-nezhmetdinov</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/mikhail-tal-the-magician-from-riga</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/paul-keres-meets-president-konstantin-pts-estonia-1938</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/boris-gelfand</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/vladimir-savon</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/yuri-balashov</loc>
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      <image:caption>Anatoly Karpov and Yuri Balashov, World Championship preperation, 1981</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/rossolimo</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/leonid-stein-1</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/vasyl-ivanchuk</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/eduward-gufeld</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/lev-polugaevsky</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/semyon-furman</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/leonid-stein</loc>
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      <image:title>Soviet Chess History Archive | SovietChessHistory.org - Vladimir Makoganov - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Vladimir Makogonov in Venice, Italy</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/the-hague-1948</loc>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/gennadi-sosonko</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-04-28</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Genna Sosonko, Wijk aan Zee, 1977</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/alexander-beliavsky</loc>
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      <image:caption>9th round; Beliavsky, January 29, 1985</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Viktor Korchnoi and Alexander Beliavsky</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/vyacheslav-ragozin-a-quiet-force-in-soviet-chess-history</loc>
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      <image:title>Soviet Chess History Archive | SovietChessHistory.org - Vyacheslav Ragozin (Вячеслав Рагозин)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Участники мапча профсоюзных команд Москвы и Ленинграда (1930 г.). Пятый справа — В. Рагозин</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Soviet Chess History Archive | SovietChessHistory.org - Vyacheslav Ragozin (Вячеслав Рагозин) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Одна из первых турнирных встреч В. Рагозина с П. Кересом (Ленинград, 1939 г.)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>М. Ботвинник и В. Рагозин. Идет подготовка к матчу на первенство мира с Д. Бронштейном (Москва, 1951 г.)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>В. Рагозин (второй ряд, второй слева) и В. Смыслов (трений рад, втрой сласна)• среди делегатов 28-го конгресса ФИДЕ (Вена, 1957 г.)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/ratmir-kholmov-a-hidden-titan-of-soviet-chess</loc>
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      <image:caption>Встреча за доской с М. Талем всегда предвещает увлекательную борьбу</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Как неожиданный подарок воспринял он приглашение к участию в международном турнире памяти Чигорина. Откровенно го-воря, для такого приглашения не было объективных оснований — послужной список молодого шахматиста тогда еще не очень впечат-лял, в РСФСР подобной чести удостаивались куда более именитые. Но ведь Холмов представлял Белоруссию, а там, кроме Вересова, более достойных кандидатов не было.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Напряженный поединок</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/fedor-parfenovich-bohatirchuk-a-chess-career-erased-by-history-1</loc>
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      <image:caption>Федір Бохатирчук</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sovietchesshistory.org/soviet-chess-history/6e7eptioklid68nll8jyagd39xkrzp</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-04-29</lastmod>
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