Feb-07-16
 | | Richard Taylor: Glenn Turner went to the same school as me in the 60s, Tamaki College in Glenn Innes-Panmure, Auckland. I still live there. We were both keen on chess and he and I would play games at his place, and once we played a 10 game or more match which Glenn won! I was designated Botvinnik and he was Tal although I think we both wanted to be Tal. Fischer hadn't been properly invented at the time...He is or was a stronger player than me, and quite confident. (Possibly too confident, as he would boast in a loud voice about how superior he was to the opponent he was about to play...but I think that was a phase he, and I a bit, went through). He won I think it was the 1986 New Zealand Correspondence Championships (I'll check that, but in the one he won he beat Smith who is about 2300 rating and was stronger then, and IM Garbett, and they were both ex-NZ Champions) and possibly some NZ Junior Championships in the 60s. Our "nemesis" was Ewen Green who learned chess on a farm in (the Waikato I think) without a chess board and at one time had the Australasian record - 1978-79). He was involved in Insurance as I think he did a maths degree. We both shared a boyhood love of the Sherlock Holmes stories. (He is NOT Glenn Turner the cricketer). |
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Feb-07-16
| | Richard Taylor: and PS also not related to Glenn Turner's (the cricketer's brothers): the poet Brian Turner or the golfer Greg Turner. |
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Feb-07-16
 | | MissScarlett: Is this Glenn Turner, the cricketer? |
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Feb-18-18
| | Richard Taylor: No, not the cricketer, as I stated above. |
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Feb-18-18
| | MissScarlett: Back in the day, the Kiwis had limited openers like Turner, Edgar and Wright. Now they have guys like Guptill and Munro. |
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Feb-18-18
 | | Tabanus: Miami Daily News-Record, 9 Aug 1968 p. 5:
<Auckland student Glenn Turner, 20, completed 68 hours nonstop chess today claiming the world record. He played 535 games before quitting. He is the Auckland University chess champion.> |
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Feb-18-18
| | MissScarlett: <Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name. Robs me of that which not enriches him. And makes me poor indeed.> |
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Feb-21-18
| | Richard Taylor: <Tabanus: Miami Daily News-Record, 9 Aug 1968 p. 5:
<Auckland student Glenn Turner, 20, completed 68 hours nonstop chess today claiming the world record. He played 535 games before quitting. He is the Auckland University chess champion.>> I don't recall that but I had given up chess myself. Before that though and around that time Glenn I took Glenn 'down the line' to where his sister had married a Maori fellow. Glenn worked in insurance I think it was for years, he studied mathematics. He may have been overtaken in that record by Grant Kerr who knew him. Glenn was quite a strong player, won the NZ Corres. Champs once. He and I used to play on his rather strange looking chess board at his house. We played a match. Each of us wanted to be Tal but Glenn, who was rather a forceful fellow, determined he would be Tal and I was Botvinnik! As it was I lost the match. We both at diff. times won the Club Champs of the Local Tamaki Chess Club (here in Panmure at Tamaki Intermediate). When Glenn beat the current Champion, an adult called Gallagher. My father told me Gallagher looked at his lost position, and said:
"Bullshiet!"
And he walked out of the Club not to return! |
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Feb-21-18
| | Richard Taylor: <MissScarlett: <Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name. Robs me of that which not enriches him. And makes me poor indeed.> Is this from Shakespeare? Which play?
Is it 'The Merchant of Venice'? Shylock? |
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Feb-21-18
| | Richard Taylor: I'm trying to work it out without Wiki. |
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