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...that between the 10th (held in 1952) and 29th (held in 1990 Chess Olympiads, the Soviet Union team claimed the team gold medal in every non-boycotted iteration save the 23rd, played in 1978 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which Hungary, behind Grandmaster Lajos Portisch, pictured infra, who scored 10 points across his 14 games to achieve an ELO performance rating of 2691, and Grandmaster Gyula Sax, who won a third board bronze medal and defeated Yugoslav Grandmaster Aleksandar Matanović in the final round to secure the Hungarian victory?
...that Tasman Grandmaster Ian Rogers and Victorian Grandmaster Darryl Johansen, respectively, the first- and second-ever Australian players to attain the Grandmaster title, combined to win nine of the fourteen Australian national championships held between 1980 and 2006?

...that German Grandmaster Robert Hübner and American Grandmaster Kenneth Rogoff sought, during a university team championship in 1972 in Graz, Austria, to draw a game in just one move–a draw was mutually beneficial to the teams each represented–but were ordered by arbiters to continue and so played a series of bizarre moves before once more attempting to draw the game, which was ultimately declared a forfeit victory for Rogoff?