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Jen on Chess Outliers and Unlucky Birthdays

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By Jennifer Shahade
December 10, 2008
CLO editor Jen Shahade reviews Outliers: The Story of Success, by best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell. The review picks out Outliers' chess references and presents data on the best chess birthdays.

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