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5:39	Hello guys...welcome to round 8..

5:42	A special guest today was former Aussie Champion Fred Flatow. He was seen walking around observing the set up here as well as the simul outside. We asked him to have a go but he politely refused.

5:43	Also here now is NSWCA boss Bill Gletsos, see in an expensive looking NASA leather jacket.

5:46	[Comment From Malcolm] Hi Amiel

5:46	Yo...what's up?

5:47	[Comment From Tony Chow] Greetings Amiel. Did you manage to score a point in Rd 8?

5:48	No...a draw. A lucky one...My opponent was kicking the bejesus outta me, but my staunch defence held forth. According to Fritz, he was winning but our frail human brains couldn't see a breakthrough for him.

5:48	[Comment From Malcolm] well patting the cat right now

5:49	Other visitors today were such familiar names as Abraham Stzern and Stephen Javor.

5:49	[Comment From Malcolm] I guess congrats on the draw

5:51	Stzern participated in the simul today and managed to checkmate the simul giver! He said even at his age these days he can still manage to bamboozle some people.

5:51	[Comment From Malcolm] You are obviously watching the games and walking around to have a look now and again, have you seen anything very exciting? how are any of my fellow Victorians going?

5:53

How about my mate FM James Morris? Just before hostilities this morning he walks up to me and said he'd murder his opponent! OTB, of course. There will be blood. But Rathnakaran was in no such mood. After just half an hour so, Morris' K was bare and teased out of its hole all the way down to enemy territory. After an Indian N check, it was all over

5:55	And my other good mate, Voonie, faced yet another KID this morning, too. HK's Bryan Lee should have known that Voonie holds the KID in contempt. It's an "unsound defence", says Voonie. Sure enough, he was victorious.

5:55

5:56	Fred Flatow on the right there...An all round nice fella, he is still active but restricts his chess mainly to club level comps. He's a long-time member of my former club Canterbury. I scored a point off him once, some 10 years ago now I think in an allegro tournament. Man, I was happy about that.

5:57	[Comment From Clive] George's style of play is agressive dynamic i hope that sacked pawn gives him compensation, white's pieces seem a bit more active..but i doubt it's worth a pawn...however he's playing fr a win so he can cruise in the draw in the final round...go george!!

5:57	Just going off to check on some games...BRB.

6:01	Mas - Zibaei, 1-0. Malaysian fans will be glad about that one. I gotta say, after more than a couple of weeks, the Iranians have finally began to play well.

6:03	Dragecevic - Morris, draw Stead - Schon, 0-1 Safarian - Solomon, 0-1 Bird - Voon, 1-0 Gibbons - Holland, draw Stojic, S. - Setiabudi, A., 0-1 Smirnov, A., - Davis, draw Grigg - Anton, 1-0

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