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Anna Gershnik
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american woman grandmaster”. Today it says “soviet-born american chess player”.
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Anna Gershnik ( Russian : Анна Гершник ; née Segal , born 13 September 1975) is a Soviet-born American chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1995.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american woman grandmaster”. Today it says “soviet-born american chess player”. Read the current article and compare.
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american woman grandmaster
Now
soviet-born american chess player
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