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Jan-12-15 V Small vs E Torre, 1978    Mac3: Dr Vernon Small was one of NZ's best chess players who now spends much of his time analyzing the strategies from left to right in NZ Politics. Political movements are much more difficult to analyze than chess as the politicians have a tendancy to change colurs all too frequently, while      Oct-24-14 The World vs Naiditsch, 2014    ...      Jan-30-13 Carlsen vs Harikrishna, 2013    Mac3: How can it be a Ponziani Scheme if Carlsen Madoff with the full point?      Nov-30-12 The World vs V Akobian, 2012    Mac3: What should the pun for this game be? Varuzhan for a Baruzhan!?      Nov-07-12 Aleister Crowley    Mac3: No the fifth Beatle was Billy Preston!      Jan-20-12 Queenstown Chess Classic (2012)    Mac3: While America like every country has it faults it remains a great country! If it wasn't for America, New Zealand could be speaking Japanese today!! Could it be that Richard's right to freedom of speech is due at least in part to the sacrifice of our American friends who fought for ...      Jan-19-12 Kotronias vs D Xiu, 2011    Mac3: Vas must have had a Clinton in their eye after that game ;-)      May-28-10 K Asrian vs A Minasian, 2007    Mac3: This game appears in a recent release by Chessbase on the Two Knights variation as an example of how white nullified the dreaded Traxler! http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... "Trent uses the game Asrian-Minasian for two reasons: Asrian made the game look so easy and there have ...      May-03-10 Zygmunt Frankel    Mac3: I recall when he was editor of the NZ Chess magazine in 1985-6 a "mysterious author" wrote a letter to the editor. The author of the letter was T K Z Gunman Flyer, which upon closer scrutiny was an anagram of the editor!      May-03-10 Anand vs Topalov, 2010    Mac3: Some interesting analysis on the game at www.chessvibes.com With 42. Qa4! White could have prevented the black pawn going to d2. 42... Qd5+ (42... d2? 43. Qc2+ ) 43. Kf1 Qe6 44. Qa2! Qd5 (44... Qc6 45. Qa1! Qd5 46. Qe1! ) 45. Qa6+ Kg7 46. Qa7+ Kg6 47. Qe3!

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