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| Jul-19-17 | | gauravbanodha: 24Qh4?? |
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| Jul-19-17 | | ChessHigherCat: "Watch Edwin bhend Tal"
What do you do with a guy who obstinately refuses to blunder? Lose |
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| Nov-06-21 | | jerseybob: According to a recent post on Reddit, Bhend, at age 90, has just scored 4/7 in the European Senior Team Championship. And I'll bet every day he thinks of this game. I know I would! |
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| Nov-09-21 | | whiteshark: I Bhend, so I don't break. |
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| Feb-23-22 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: Didn't Tal miss a win by
24. Bb1 Bf7 25. Qh4 h6 26. Qe4 Bg8 27. Rxg7 Kxg7 28. Qg6+ Kh8 29. Qxh6+ Bh7 30. Qxh7# or 24. Bb1 Bf7 25. Qh4 Bg6 26. Bxg6 h6 27. Rfe1 (27. Bb1 Rf4) Rb7 28. Qe4 Rxe7 29. Qxe7 ? |
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| Feb-23-22 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I overlooked 24 ... Rf7
After
24. Bb1 Rf7 25. Qh5 Kg8 26. Bxh7+ Kf8 27. Re3 Bc6 28. Rfe1 Rbb7 29. Bf5 Rxf5 30. Qxf5+ Rf7 31. Qe6 Bd4 32. R3e2 Qf6 33. Qxf6 Rxf6 it looks like black is winning. |
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Apr-14-22
 | | HeMateMe: I love the pun. Who the hell is Edwin Bhend? |
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Apr-14-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Bhend proved a very tough opponent in this tournament. Not yet an IM, facing a herd of GMs, his -2 score might have made this his best result ever. |
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| Apr-14-22 | | SkySports: The pun was created by <tamar>, I have just submitted it because apparently no one did it...
Fun fact aboth Bhend, he is still active and he's the best over-90 player in the World (current rating 2099). |
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| Apr-14-22 | | goodevans: Several endorsers of this pun so I must be missing something. "Edwin" is nothing like "Beckham" so surely it has nothing to do with the film. Could somebody please explain. |
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| Apr-14-22 | | Andrew Chapman: <Several endorsers of this pun so I must be missing something.> I think the idea is that he was under intense pressure but didn't break - like bending a piece of wood until it almost breaks - but still holds. |
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Apr-14-22
 | | OhioChessFan: <goodevans>, well, people clamor for great games with a great pun that directly applies to some aspect of the great game. If all 3 of those don't happen, someone will complain. FWIW, I remain on the record for the pun taking precedence of those points. Anyway, cg.c needs 365 of them a year. Sometimes, you gotta accept maybe a less than great game or less than perfect pun or a pun that doesn't directly relate to the game. |
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| Apr-14-22 | | Nosnibor: Keep thinking 0f "Bend it " by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mitch and Titch. However in this game Bhend was very much alert and far from dozy! |
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| Apr-14-22 | | goodevans: <OCF> As you know, for a good game (and this is one) I'll happily suffer a poor pun but comments from <Strelets>, <HMM>, etc. lauding the pun genuinely made me think I was missing something. <Missy> did warn us yesterday that as far as bad puns go, "You ain't seen nothing yet!". Hopefully we're in for a string of interesting games. |
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Apr-14-22
 | | offramp: Tal, like Alekhine, will try ANYTHING to save a game.... In fact most GMs will do that, but some will be very clever and slithery.
Kamsky is a modern version of a resourceful defender. |
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Apr-14-22
 | | Teyss: <goodevans> On top of the movie reference, the pun might also be "Bent it like the wind" as in "Bend [Tal's position] like the wind [would]." Granted, a bit far-fetched but not more than the Beckham allusion. Sacs that work are enjoyable but sacs that don't are instructive. |
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Apr-14-22
| | OhioChessFan: <goodevans> ok. I've often been shocked to see plainly sub-par puns praised. In any case, this one clearly is referring to bend it like Beckham. |
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| Apr-14-22 | | RookFile: Tal played the first 19 moves perfectly and could have preserved his opening advantage with 20. Bh4 |
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Mar-02-23
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: Just think, one year later in 1960, Bhend is on a trolley or sitting in a coffeehouse, telling everyone, "No, really! Last year, I beat the World Chess Champion!" And everyone is thinking, "Why do they always sit next to me?" |
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| Mar-03-23 | | RakishTilt: Well played, An Englishman. But perhaps best to get off at the next trolley stop just in case. |
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Mar-04-23
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: <RakishTilt> seems a pity that CG doesn't have a laughing face emoji for such a comment as yours. |
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| Mar-04-23 | | syracrophy: <RakishTilt><An Englishman> 😂😂😂😂😂😂 |
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| Mar-04-23 | | syracrophy: <Marmot PFL: It was always best to play Tal in round 1.> The winning opening vs Tal was playing him at the opening of the tournament. Was it too much? |
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Mar-04-23
 | | perfidious: <Marmot: It was always best to play Tal in round 1.> Cafferty, in annotating Tal vs R G Wade, 1966 in his work on the great man, alluded to Wade's choice of opening for that reason. |
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Jul-14-23
 | | plang: Already, 5..Na6 was a new move; 5..Nf6 is most often played. Certainly, a creative opening by both players.
22 Bxg6?! doesn't even qualify as speculative; did Tal miss 22..Bxd5! (23 Qh5?..Bg8)? After the game Tal said that he had originally intended 24 Bxh7 but then noticed that after 24..Bf6! 25 Qh6..Qxe7 26 Be4+..Kg8 27 Bxd5+..Rf7 he doesn't have sufficient play. Despite his miscalculations Tal could have still played 25 Bh5..Bd4 26 Qh6..Bg7 with a likely repetition. |
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