May-18-13 Serper vs A J Mestel, 1990 
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MarkThornton: After 17.Qd2, Black has problems defending against Bh6, followed by Nf5. At least one of 17....Nf6 and 18....Be6 is a mistake, perhaps both. Perhaps he is Ok after 18....Bxh6 19.Qxh6 Ng4. It depends how this line turns out: 20.Bxg4 Bxg4 21.Nf5 gxf5 22.f3 with an attack.
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| | Mar-30-13 Ulf Andersson vs M Basman, 1974
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MarkThornton: A very strange game, with a massive degree of provocation by Black. Basman is a good player and must have known that his strange plan of ...a6, ...Ra7, ...Ba8 should lead to a big advantage for White after <14.f3> and <15.e4>. So why did he play this way? My best ...
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| | Mar-29-13 Svidler vs Aronian, 2013
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MarkThornton: 15....cxd4 looks like the start of Black's troubles. I'd prefer 15....0-0-0 myself.
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| | Feb-23-13 Kibitzer's Café
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MarkThornton: "How to write a chess book and make loads of dosh" by Phil Crocker. http://www.chess.co.uk/kingpin/King... This is the funniest chess article that I have ever read. (N.B. "dosh" is slang in England for "cash".)
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| | Feb-22-13 D T Rowles vs C Reeves, 1998
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MarkThornton: Sadly, Chris Reeves died suddenly on 3rd December 2012. He was a noted expert on mate in 2 problems. His obituary can be found on the website of the British Chess Problem Society: http://www.theproblemist.org/news
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| | Feb-22-13 Chris Reeves
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MarkThornton: An obituary of Christoper Reeves can be found here: http://www.theproblemist.org/news
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| | Jan-15-13 Aronian vs Anand, 2013
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MarkThornton: I have just found this game - absolutely stunning!!
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| | Dec-25-12 Max Weiss vs Burn, 1888
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MarkThornton: Here is a quote from the publicity material for the book: "Gunsberg won the tournament ahead of Mackzenie, von Bardeleben, Mason, Burn, Weiss, Blackburne, Taubenhaus, Bird, Pollock, Thorock, Locock, Mortimer, Lee, Owen, Hall, Rumboll and Skipworth..... .....The result was a ...
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| | Dec-10-12 The World vs Akobian, 2012
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MarkThornton: It looks to me as though the very best that Black can hope for is to sacrifice some material to buy off our attack.
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| | Nov-24-12 D Russell vs T Wall, 1996
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MarkThornton: Tim took a while to convert the point, but it was a good game.
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