Sep-14-10
 | | gawain: A nice little victory for Ruderfer (who?) featured in the Boston Globe's Chess Notes column. http://www.boston.com/ae/games/arti... |
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| Apr-21-15 | | zanzibar: It's also game #11 in Lombardy's <Modern Chess Opening Traps> where you get the extra(neous) moves 19.Qxa4 Bxc3+ for free. |
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Dec-21-16
 | | Phony Benoni: I don't LOL much in the Pun Voting Booth, but this one got me. The reference is to a type of tobacco called "Prince Albert" (named after the husband of Queen Victoria), one form of which was sold in tins. This led to a joke: "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
'Yes, we do."
"Well, let him out!"
It was a simpler time. The game is more amusing, with the "epunymous" pin playing a leading role. |
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| Dec-21-16 | | andrewjsacks: Great idea for punning title for this game. |
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Dec-21-16
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: One of the most inspired puns in quite some time. Remarkable game, too. |
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| Dec-21-16 | | RookFile: Shows you how strong Russian chess is. Apparently black is a random 2400 type hacker, not even a titled player. |
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Dec-21-16
 | | Honza Cervenka: Very nice game and pun. It seems to be that white's troubles started already with 9.cxd5. It was better to play 9.Qe2+ with idea 9...Be7(?) 10.cxd5 Nxd4 11.Qe4 Nxf3+ 12.gxf3  and due to a threat d6 white wins a Bishop. After 9...Kd7 white seems to be fine with 10.0-0-0!?, if black plays 9...Kd8, then 10.Qd2 is quite good for white. |
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Dec-21-16
 | | OhioChessFan: One of the better puns of the year. |
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Dec-21-16
| | OhioChessFan: <Phony> I am ashamed to admit I called the local drugstore and pulled that, thinking it was clever/original. The knee slapping final line was "Well, you better let him out before he suffocates!" I guess they just played along with kids who did that. It'd be too hard to explain, but there is an amusing reference in an episode of the Rockford Files. I hope someone knows how to search something like that out on Youtube. |
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Dec-21-16
 | | perfidious: The line with 6....Qa5 first attracted notice in V Heuer vs Tal, 1972, though during the 1980s it was played after 7.Bxf6 exf6 8.cxd5 Bb4 with the point being that 9.dxc6 runs into 9....Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 Qxc3+ 11.Ke2 0-0 12.f3 Re8+ 13.Kf2 Qe3+ and a perpetual. Today though I would likely plump for the more combative 6....Be6 instead. |
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| Dec-21-16 | | The Kings Domain: Alburt got a little too cocky with his attack. |
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| Dec-21-16 | | 7he5haman: Was there anything wrong with 16.0-0-0? |
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| Dec-21-16 | | 7he5haman: Ignore me - just seen what is wrong with that move... |
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| Dec-21-16 | | Absentee: Great pun. |
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Dec-21-16
| | gawain: It's funny to tune into a 2016 Game of the Day and see my own avatar looking at me. (I was first to post about this game back in 2010.) Unfortunately the article I linked to is now behind a paywall. I don't remember it. |
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| Dec-21-16 | | thegoodanarchist: <7he5haman: Was there anything wrong with 16.0-0-0? 7he5haman: Ignore me - just seen what is wrong with that move...> Honestly, it isn't worse than what happened in the game, IMO. |
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| Dec-22-16 | | Abdel Irada: ∞
<gawain: It's funny to tune into a 2016 Game of the Day and see my own avatar looking at me. (I was first to post about this game back in 2010.) Unfortunately the article I linked to is now behind a paywall. I don't remember it.> I was hoping to sneak in the back and get you a direct link past the wall, but apparently boston.com is stricter about access control to its archives than some other paywall users. I did get a direct link to the archive page (http://archive.boston.com/ae/games/...), but even if you paste/type that directly into your address bar, you still get redirected back to the original story link and its stub. :-( ∞ |
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