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Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:56 pm**

Happy Birthday IM Jeff Horner (25-viii-1949)

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Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:04 pm**

All the best to a Northern chess legend

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 2:09 pm**

That picture of him on 25 August 1949 shows he was a gigantic baby!

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:28 pm**

Great player. Extremely composed at all times.

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:46 pm**

Slightly more importantly, absolute gentleman, and genuinely nice guy

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 4:02 pm**

Mick Norris wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:46 pm
Slightly more importantly, absolute gentleman, and genuinely nice guy

Genuinely don't know anybody with a bad word to say about him, which of course isn't all that common in the chess world.

Posted: **Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:30 pm**

Yes, true gentleman Jeff Horner.

Happy Birthday IM Jeff Horner (25-viii-1949)