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Yet its obvious fear-mongering and its refusal even to discuss climate change—coal is another of the right wing's pet causes—have alienated centrists, leading to trouncings at recent by-elections in Sydney and rural New South Wales.
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According to several sources, Graham took "one of the worst trouncings of his career"."Battalino Trounces Graham Before 6000 to Capture Decision", Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, pg. 1, 26 April 1930Worst trounchings of his career, in Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, pg. 17, 26 April 1930 He had lost to former champion Graham on September 24, 1931 in a non-title split decision in Cincinnati, before later knocking out Graham on November 19, 1931, at Chicago Stadium 1:44 into the first round.
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BBC award-winning journalists, from their book Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (HarperCollins, 2004): > Fischer, some will maintain, was the outstanding player in chess history, > though there are powerful advocates too for Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, > and Kasparov. Many chess players will dismiss such comparisons as > meaningless, akin to the futile attempt to grade the supreme musicians of > all time. But the manner in which Fischer stormed his way to Reykjavik, his > breathtaking dominance at the Palma de Majorca Interzonal, the trouncings of > Taimanov, Larsen, and Petrosian—all this was unprecedented. There never has > been an era in modern chess during which one player has so overshadowed all > others.
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