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Vive la France! Alireza Firouzja latest chess star to be given a Gallic welcome

France’s Bastille Day, which we mark this week, celebrates the final days of a notorious royalist prison in 1789 that inmates were trying to escape from.

Which for chessplayers is more than a bit ironic, as France ever since has represented a place to escape to.

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