Sep-05-10 Craig Van Tilbury 
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Craigokat: Hello. this is Craig's wife/partner, Annie.
SO wonderful to hear such kind words from everyone. I especially enjoyed Once's Chess eulogy. I miss him terribly and I am sad for our 1 yr old daughter, as she will never know him first hand.
Thank you to everyone...
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| | Jun-28-10 J Lopez vs W Hook, 2008
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Craigokat: 47...Bh2+ wins for black
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| | Jun-23-10 A Budnikov vs Varavin, 1989 
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Craigokat: 18.Ng5 Qxd4 19.Ne6 looks like fun
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| | Jun-13-10 B Pantebre Martinez vs E Paoli, 1976 
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Craigokat: This game reminds me of a comment made by the late Boris Kogan during the postmortem of a game we had just finished.
After he obtained a pawn on the sixth rank (not passed but protected) he exclaimed "of coarse after this, all endings are lost"
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| | May-28-10 W Hook vs J C Meyer, 1979 
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Craigokat: after 34...Bh6 it looks like 35.Bd1+ does the trick i.e. ..Qdxd1, Qg8+ etc.
..Qbxd1, Rg3+ and Qxf5 etc.
..Bf3, Rxf3 etc.
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| | May-23-10 US Championships (2010) 
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Craigokat: Nakamura-Shulman is a line employed by my late friend and colleague
Bill Hook who ventured this same line against non other than Bobby Fischer
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| | May-21-10 J Blake vs G A Hooke, 1891 
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Craigokat: A nice twist on Legal's mate
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| | May-04-10 Topalov vs Anand, 2010 
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Craigokat: Maybe black can hold by playing h5 and keeping the king on f7.
still there may be some type of Zugzwang down the road
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| | May-03-10 Anand vs Topalov, 2010 
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Craigokat: To claim 3-fold , you must do so to the arbiter before your move that creates the key position.
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| | Apr-30-10 Topalov vs Anand, 2010 
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Craigokat: Fischer (among others) has instructively shown the clear edge of the B vs.the Kt with pawns on both sides of the board.
In this position it seems that having more pawns actually shuts down the B to a certain extent and will ultimately provide an effective outpost for the knight.
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