Out of 23 players he played against in simultaneous exhibition games on Saturday at Country Club Limbe, Russian Grandmaster Vasily Papin beat 21 and drew with three, national team players; Candidate Master (CM) Chiletso Chipanga, George Mwale and Daisy Nkhoma.
It took three and a half hours of circum rotating around the 23 player panelists, with long think stop overs here and there for the Grandmaster, who arrived in country on August 6 to train the Malawi team that shall represent the country at the Chess Olympiad to be held in the Eastern European city of Batumi in Georgia from September 23 to October 6.
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