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TIL Soviet Chess player and musician Mark Taimanov once lost a tournament so badly to Bobby Fischer that he was thrown off the USSR team, forbidden to travel for two years, banned from writing articles, deprived of his monthly stipend, and prohibited from performing concerts

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