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4:13	Here we go. The penultimate round!

4:14	[Comment From K_fracture] Greetings TCG!

4:14	What an exciting clash we have today on board 1. The two goung guns. Zhao - Smerdon.

4:15	According to my database, the last time these two dudes met was in Queenstown '06. 0-1 to Zhao to then.

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[Event "Queenstown op"]
[Site "Queenstown"]
[Date "2006.01.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Smerdon, David"]
[Black "Zhao, Zong Yuan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "2421"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2006.01.15"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[EventCountry "NZL"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2006.03.10"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Bd3 cxd4 7. cxd4 Qb6 8. O-O Nxd4 9. Nbd2 Bc5 10. b4 Nxf3+ 11. Nxf3 Qxb4 12. Ng5 Qa4 13. Qh5 Nh6 14. Nxh7 Rxh7 15. Bxh7 Qg4 16. Qh3 Qxh3 17. gxh3 Bc6 18. Rb1 Kd7 19. Rb3 Rh8 20. Bd3 Nf5 21. Bxf5 exf5 22. Kg2 Ke6 23. Rg3 d4+ 24. Kg1 g6 25. Ba3 Bb6 26. Bd6 Rh4 27. Rd1 Re4 28. Kf1 Bb5+ 29. Kg2 Be2 30. Rd2 Ba5 31. Rxe2 Rxe2 32. Bc5 Bc3 33. a3 a5 34. Kf3 Re1 0-1

4:16	[Comment From K_fracture] The West Scott game should be interesing too

4:18	[Comment From Guest] The last time they played was in the 2007 Oceania Zonal

4:19	today's first order of business was for the handing out of FIDE certificates. Nakauchi and Morris received their FM title certs and so did Alex Jule. More importantly, however, was the FIDE certificate for one GM Zhao.

4:19	[Comment From Guest] Unfortunately Chessbase's Megabase does not have that tournament at all

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