FIDE — [citation last1=Hooper | first1=David | author1 link=David Vincent Hooper last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | author2 link=Kenneth Whyld year=1992 | title=The Oxford Companion to Chess | edition=second publisher=Oxford University Press isbn=0 19… … Wikipedia
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