| Sep-02-05 | | dac1990: Weird opening. I played it once and lost on move twelve. Not exactly fun. |
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| May-06-15 | | RookFile: I was confused for a minute and thought Marshall had the black pieces. The guy tried some crazy gambit like he would have played. |
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May-06-15
 | | offramp: <dac1990: Weird opening. I played it once and lost on move twelve. Not exactly fun.> I know what you mean. As Black I've started off intending a normal, calm QGD and the opponent has messed around with stupid one-move threats and queen checks and pins and it is just annoying. I suppose we have to suffer it, chess is chess. |
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May-06-15
 | | Check It Out: Definitely a stand up fight. No ground-and-pound or Brazilian jiu-jitsu for these guys. |
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| May-06-15 | | morfishine: "Oskam's Razor"
Black assumed he was in this game, right up until it dawned on him he was down a piece ...the fewer assumptions that are made, the better... ***** |
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| May-06-15 | | kevin86: White had to try his best to get the queen out of the soup. He ends up a bishop ahead in the end. |
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May-06-15
 | | scormus: <morfishine> nice pun. nicw summing up as well. Ever thought of going into media work? :) |
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| May-06-15 | | thegoodanarchist: Marshall didn't care for the "grim business" (as he called it) of grinding down the opponent. Thus, I am always happy to look over one of his wins, since I know it will be lively. |
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| May-06-15 | | Jack Kerouac: From the era of Chigorin. The Korchnoi of his day... |
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| May-06-15 | | Smite: Marshall wins a split decision on scoring based on octogonal control. |
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May-06-15
 | | perfidious: One might say that Marshall smiteth his opponent in this one-sided affair. |
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| May-06-15 | | MagnusVerMagnus: The game of Frank Marshall was my favorite book as a younster, and thus I grew up swindling people and made millions. Thank you Frank. |
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May-07-15
| | Check It Out: I like <morfishine>'s pun. Nice one! |
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| May-07-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <Check It Out: I like <morfishine>'s pun. Nice one!> So what does it mean?
Does it mean that Oskam tried to complicate, but since Occam's Razor states that the simplest explanation is the most likely one (I am, of course, oversimplifying it), Oskam's complications were refuted by Marshall's straightforward play? Or am I making the pun explanation more complicated than it actually is? :) |
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May-07-15
 | | OhioChessFan: "Oskam's Razor"
Might be the first pun <morf> ever liked. Whereas I think it's just a cheap pun on the player's name and has nothing to do with what happened on the board. |
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| May-07-15 | | Estoc: <<OhioChessFan> it's just a cheap pun on the player's name> Welcome to chessgames.com. |
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| May-08-15 | | morfishine: <scormus> <Check It Out> & <thegoodanarchist> I
appreciate the comments. I wouldn't look too deeply
into this one. Its really just light-hearted commentary
trying to join 'assume' & the net-result
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<OhioChessFan> On this comment: <Might be the first pun <morf> ever liked> Wrong...If you'd done your homework, you'd know there's been plenty of puns that I've heaped praise on. But enough of that, lets get to the main event, this truly eloquent comment: <Whereas I think it's just a cheap pun on the player's name and has nothing to do with what happened on the board> Here's the GOTD from 4/29: A Tari vs D Arngrimsson, 2015 The pun was "A Tari Breakout" and your comment was "Pun of the Year candidate". Being that this is "just a cheap pun on the player's name" that for all intents and purposes "has nothing to do with what happened on the board" do you care to reconcile your two conflicting comments? Being a hypocrite is not the best way to fortify one's credibility ***** |
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May-08-15
| | OhioChessFan: <morf> I don't know about plenty, but I think you're easily the most persistent critic of puns. As for the main event, I was referencing a previous comment of yours. Here's what you said: <Most of these puns are pathetic attempts to put a twist on some players name. Whatever happened with creating a pun based on the game, opening, variation, chess-piece, location, venue or mating theme? What is it with this obsessive-fixation with trying to create a half-wit play-on-word solely based on the player's name? > So you offered Oskam's Razor (which I happen to think is good) which has nothing to with the game, opening, variation, chesspieces, location, venue or mating theme. I guess I regret wasting 10 minutes of my life on this. |
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