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Chess grand master dies at 43
Meghan Shapiro, The Examiner
Jul 19, 2006 5:00 AM (1239 days ago)BALTIMORE

Alek Wojtkiewicz — known to his friends as “Wojo” — was an international chess grand master, winning titles in both the United States and Russia. He gave lessons to local Maryland chess players at Fells Point Chess in Baltimore, but at one time he was a political prisoner at a Latvian KGB prison camp for his views on communism in Eastern Europe.

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