Jul-26-08 Napoleon Bonaparte 
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knightfly: Here is an interesting article which claims that Boney was little better
than Hitler.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...
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| | Mar-21-08 Fine vs A Reynolds, 1937
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knightfly: Arthur Reynolds was a British player who was born 1910 and died as a Japanese Prisoner-of-war in 1943.
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| | Dec-20-06 G Welling vs Eingorn, 2006
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knightfly: <Pelgrino Patzer>White wins by 1.Kg2! Kxb5 2.f4 gxf4 3.g5
The plausible looking 1.Kg3 only draws to 1...Kxb5 2.f4 gxf4+ 3.Kxf4 fxg4
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| | Dec-03-06 Tartakower vs Fahrni, 1909
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knightfly: As eloquent as ever Tartakower wrote after 27.Bxf6+
"This is a case where one can distinctly observe the sympathetic influence of disease from one sick part of the organism to another; indeed, in the end it is not the square f7 but its neighbour on f6 through which the assailant ...
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| | Nov-09-06 Cecil Brown chessforum
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knightfly: Yes I agree with you about Winston, he was never one to back down from a fight starting from his early days as a cavalry officer. 'Young Winston' has always been a favourte film although how much is poetic license I don't know. I've given up on the Napoleon Bonaparte vs General ...
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| | Nov-06-06 Napoleon Bonaparte vs General Bertrand, 1820
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knightfly: <tino72>I stand by to be corrected on this (as usual) but I think the first country to give women the vote was New Zealand as late as the 1890's.
In that that sense no country before then was truly democratic.
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| | Nov-05-06 Fischer vs Larsen, 1971
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knightfly: Thanks <Eggman>. I just trawled through all the avatars until I came to it. Always been a big Hendrix fan.
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| | Nov-05-06 mack chessforum
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knightfly: Thanks for the info <mack>.Ordered it from Amazon, 3 cd boxed set, 71 tracks only £14.42. Bargain.
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| | Oct-21-06 Kraidman vs H Harestad, 1991
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knightfly: Black forgets to castle before playing d5.
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| | Sep-07-06 Miles vs G Kuzmin, 1973
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knightfly: 36. Rd3! Excellent play by Miles. He gives up a piece, judging that his rook will be better than black's uncoordinated B + N in the endgame.
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