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| littlefermat: Check out Mathscinet. If you're at a college/university, you can access it for free--otherwise, it'll cost money. All of his papers, along with Nunn's, are available there (at least they are reviewed there). |
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Feb-18-08
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| HeMateMe: Nunn was quite the prodigy, huh? I think he had finished either his Masters, or a Doctorate, in math at the age of 18. I think he entered Cambridge as a 14-year-old. If they had a chess team, I'm sure he was on it. |
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| Feb-21-08 |
| dotty hill: <littlefermat> I tried MSN and Google but I couldn't find anything from or about a John Hubback there (are you sure about the spelling?). |
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Mar-26-08
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| heuristic: <dotty hill> I went to Math Geneology project. Obtained a list of all PhDs from Oxford for 1975-1979. No Nunn listed. For all aforementioned PhDs, i obtained the names of their advisors. Hubback is listed for one in 1979. Note that Hubback is not one for documentation, his thesis or PhD date is not listed. i searched the Radcliffe library for theses. no Nunn listed. curious.....
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| Mar-30-08 |
| dotty hill: <heuristic> thanks for the effort. The genealogy project is known to be rather incomplete - it has grown out of a one-man initiative and is based on voluntary contributions. As far as I know there was no systematic effort outside the US, quite certainly not that many years back. That Nunn's thesis fails to be in the Radcliffe library *is* rather strange. I checked the mathematical libraries in Oxford as well, result negative. Well, be it as it may, I still hope someday somebody will find out. Maybe I should contact Edward Winter... |
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| Apr-09-08 |
| Jim Bartle: In 1990, in Reykjavik, England defeated the Soviet Union in a team match for the first time. Nunn's comment: "The Soviets cunningly prevented a repetition by splitting their country up." |
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Apr-25-08
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| MaxxLange: many happy returns for the good Doctor |
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| Apr-25-08 |
| DeltaHawk: In that old picture, he looks like he can be in The Warriors. |
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| Apr-25-08 |
| Riverbeast: Happy birthday to one of my favorite players. A true tactical genius ! |
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| Apr-25-08 |
| littlefermat: Happy Birthday.
And thank you for the many fantastic books you've written! |
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Apr-25-08
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| Tessie Tura: Many happy returns of the day. 'Understanding Chess Move by Move' is a wonderful book. |
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Apr-25-08
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| MaxxLange: Another amazing old Nunn book is "Tactical Chess Endings" Nunn says that he will never write another opening book (in the style of his work on the Najdorf, or NCO), since it is all database now. |
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Jul-09-08
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| arsen387: One of the greatest tacticians ever, for sure. I'd put him in the chain 'Morphy->Alekhine->Tal->Nunn,Christiansen'. It's generally interesting to observe the chess history as consisting of some chains of players with resembling styles. Another chain could be 'Nimzowitsch,Capablanca->Petrosian->Karpov->Kramn-
ik,Leko'. |
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Oct-12-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" Chess is to a considerable extent about pattern recognition. The more patterns you have firmly fixed in your memory, the more effective you are likely to be at the chessboard. " -- Nunn
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| Oct-12-08 |
| Flicflac: does anyone agree that the photo of john nunn ought to be replaced with a better one? |
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Oct-12-08
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| Red October: he looks like Jimmy Page in this one |
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| Oct-12-08 |
| Augalv: <Flicflac: does anyone agree that the photo of john nunn ought to be replaced with a better one?> Flicflac, in order for Cg.com to do so, a picture change campaign should be initiated. :) |
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Oct-12-08
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| drkodos: Flicflac: no doubt.
Horrible image choice. |
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Oct-13-08
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| Woody Wood Pusher: No I think the picture is fine, he hasn't exactly aged gracefully. |
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| Oct-18-08 |
| Flicflac: Woody wood pusher,
Even if that were true, surely there is a better picture out there than of him with his face in a weird contortion. |
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| Nov-10-08 |
| SufferingBruin: Good Lord! That is a lousy picture. Google Images people--there's gotta be a better photo. |
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| Nov-14-08 |
| M.D. Wilson: Jimmy Page or John Nunn? |
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Nov-25-08
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| Dionyseus: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
I like his proposal, it seems very simple and efficient. |
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Feb-17-09
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| eternaloptimist: chessgames can add to his profile that he also won the World Chess Problem Solving Championship in 2007 (in addition to 2004). It's apparent that he still has a lucid & ingenious mind. |
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| Feb-18-09 |
| Petrosian63: How well would a top GM compete in a problem solving competition? |
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