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Dominic Lawson is best known as a former newspaper editor and now weekly leader page columnist for the Sunday Times and Daily Mail. But chess is his passion, as he demonstrated with several series as the presenter of Across the Board for BBC Radio 4, in which he simultaneously interviewed and played against such giants of the game as Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, and the world's strongest woman player, Hou Yifan. Since 2014 he has been the elected president of the English Chess Federation. Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, including one for his narration of Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. A multiple Audie finalist, Simon has won Audie Awards for The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan, and The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. Winner of the 2008 Booklist Voice of Choice Award, Simon has also been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

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