Word: mercurial
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...Soviet lost to Lou A. Mercuri, a Belmont city planner who said yesterday that he was still "on cloud nine" after his victory...
...Mercuri, a United States National Master and chess teacher who has been playing for 15 years, says that he first realized he had a chance to win after about 20 moves...
...kept looking at the board and I respected [Karpov] so much that I kept wondering, `Am I really winning?'" Mercuri said. "I was very concerned right up to the end that I would make a careless move and then my position would go from very good to very...
...Mercuri said that he felt a strong sense of relief when he finally defeated the Soviet master...
...Mercuri acknowledged that Karpov was not playing under the easiest of conditions and said, "If we had played ten games one-on-one, I would have been happy to draw one game. It just proves that on a given day anything can happen...
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