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Overview of the events of 2010 in chess

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Events in chess during the year 2010:

Events

The British Chess Variants Society disbands.
Variant Chess ceases publication.
Viswanathan Anand beats Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship 2010, thus retaining the title of World Chess Champion.

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