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A Champion Walks Away: Kasparov, FIDE, and Thirteen Years of Two Titles

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A Championship That Founded Its Own Federation

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A Cup Renamed

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A Game Kept Alive Only by Masters

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A Grid Scratched Everywhere: The Unsolved Geography of Nine Men's Morris

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A Merger, a Roman Numeral and a Trophy: How the Super Bowl Got Its Name

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A Title Older Than Its Federation: Draughts Championship Before 1947

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A Trophy With No Calendar

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Akbar's Court of Stone: When an Emperor Became a Living Game Piece

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Back to Back: Spain's Unmatched Run

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Before There Was a Title: How an Informal Succession Became a Championship

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Best of Seven: The World Series's Format and Its Two Interruptions

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Born Two Days Before Kickoff: CAF and the First Africa Cup of Nations

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Boycotts, Bans and the Cold War: The Modern Games' Political History

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Cannon Fire and Palace Walls: How Xiangqi Diverged from Its Chess Cousins

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Carried Across an Ocean

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Contested Hosts: The World Cup's Hardest Choices

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Eight Men Out: The 1919 World Series and the Scandal That Nearly Broke Baseball

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From a Closed Club to the World: The French Open's Road to 1968

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From a Hospital Ward to Rome: Ludwig Guttmann and the Paralympic Movement's Beginning

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From a Twenty-Five-Point Board to Sixty-Four Squares: How Draughts Got Its Rules

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From an Undocumented Palace to Every Front Room

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From Goryeo to Joseon: Dating the Korean Chess Tradition

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From Kooyong to Melbourne Park: How the Australian Open Found a Permanent Home

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From New Delhi to New Delhi: Bookending Three Decades of Asian Games History

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From Newport to Flushing Meadows: The US Open's Three Homes

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From Reversi to Othello: How a Trademark Standardized a Game

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From Thirteen Teams to a Global Institution: How the World Cup Grew

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From Three Nations to a Continent: The Growth of the Africa Cup of Nations

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Imperial Roots, Global Game: Cricket's World Order and Its World Cup

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Kunggit at Home, Chongka Abroad: Sungka in the Filipino Diaspora

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Last of the Four: Wimbledon, Equal Prize Money and the Weight of Tradition

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Men First, Then Women, Then Everyone: The US Open and the Open Era

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Men Only, Then Everyone: The Australasian Championships' Road to a Major

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Named for an Aviator: How Roland Garros Became Tennis's Clay Major

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Nineteen Pieces, One Federation

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Odd Years and Even Ambitions: How the Bermuda Bowl Cycle Works

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Older Than It Looks: The Antiquity Mancala Cannot Yet Prove

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One Ancestor or Two: The Xiangqi Origin Dispute

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One Board, Eight Hundred Games: What Mancala Actually Names

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One Board, Many Draughts: The Variants the FMJD Governs

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Reviving an Ancient Idea: Pierre de Coubertin and the Politics of 1896

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Selling Newspapers, Making a Legend: Henri Desgrange and the Tour's Origins

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Senet's Second Life as a Religious Symbol

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Sharing a Host City: The Paralympic Movement's Long Road to Parity

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Sixteen Teams to Twenty Four

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The Accountant Who Broke Poker: Chris Moneymaker and the 2003 Main Event

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The Board the British Museum Keeps

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The Elephant That Moves Differently: Janggi Compared to Its Regional Cousins

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The Game Around the Game: How the Super Bowl Became a Cultural Event

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The Game Named for a Marriage

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The Long Road from Pachisi to Ludo and Parcheesi

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The Only Four Time Champion

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The Rules No One Wrote Down: Reconstructing How Senet Was Played

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The Schooner That Started It

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The Yellow Jersey and the Needle: The Tour's Doping Reckoning

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Three Decades Before Its Own Federation: The Asian Games Before the OCA

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Three Decades Without a Federation: The Early World Othello Championship

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Three Teams in a Hotel: The First Bermuda Bowl

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Twenty Nations at the Table: The 1993 Beijing Conference

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Twenty Two Nations in Reykjavik: Founding the World Othello Federation

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Two Inventors, One Board: The Reversi Patent Dispute

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Waterlogged Boards: Nine Men's Morris in Shakespeare's Own Words

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Which Way Does It Turn: Sungka Beside Congkak

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White Flannels and the Calypso Kings: The 1975 Inaugural World Cup

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Whites, Strawberries and a Royal Box: Wimbledon's Guarded Traditions

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