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[merrimanlyon]

Merriman is in the bar, a chess board in front of him and a folded newspaper at his side. He's working out the day's chess problem in an old edition of the Times, a variation on an endgame once played between two Soviet grandmasters. Complicated, but rather elegant.

One hand hovers over a pawn, but then drifts over to pick up his cup of tea instead.