Here's the column from 24 December 2012.
I said it was a tradition. Ray annotated the same game the previous Xmas, on 3 January 2012.
Might these two columns have anything in common with one another?
Did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer have a very shiny nose?
To be fair, the first note in the 3 January column
has no counterpart in the 24 December piece, but the next note
3 January 2012
is not distinguishable from its successor in every respect.
24 December 2012
Similarly these two notes make something of a pair
3 January 2012
24 December 2012
and these two, though not twins, are very much related.
3 January 2012
24 December 2012
However, the notes to move 33 only have slight similarities
3 January 2012
24 December 2012
and after that the two columns annotate different moves until they are reunited at White's forty-seventh.
3 January 2012
24 December 2012
We reach the end of the game with two pairs of closely-related notes.
3 January 2012
24 December 2012
3 January 2012
24 December 2012
Well, nobody really wants to put the work in over the Xmas period, do they? Still, that's one reason people like me have a problem with the traditional Xmas. Same bloody thing every bloody time.
Could Santa bring Ray some different notes this year?
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2 comments:
I could have sworn you'd already covered RDK plagiarising this game from Gazza. Now that would be an irony. I expect I was wrong, though. Or perhaps not - after all presumably RDK didn't actually write these notes himself in the first place.
Seems to have reached the stage where few comment, as there seems little more to add; but keep going Justin. For one thing, I enjoy playing through the games. Plus, there are useful notes to help understand what's going on; several identical sets in fact!
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