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Chess was a brief passion of mine in the early 1990s. At some point I lost interest; I’ll get into what happened to cause that in a later post. I picked it up again around 2019 and have been really enjoying it again.<\/p>\n

The following picture was taken of me during an interschool competition in 1994 between Kings High School (my school) and Otago Boys High School.
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