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| whatthefat: A terrible pun, I admit! |
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| sfm: After Black's move 35 the rook at c1 goes straight to b8! It's magic! In response Black kills off a white bishop and puts up an absolutely deadly threat on first row. The White queen can't attack herself, but she does her work by covering squares, while the knight, oh, and the rook that suddenly ended on b8 does the rest. The whole thing is incredibly pretty. |
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Jun-17-09
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| Check It Out: <whatthefat> Not so bad, I like this pun. |
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Jun-17-09
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| Richard Taylor: Nice game by Tal! |
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| einneu: For me, the most amazing move of all time, along with Spasky's Nc6 against Averbah. The first impression is that Tal got crazy, picked randomly a piece and left it somewhere randomly again.I'd love to see Hjartarson's face after Rc5. |
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| Jun-17-09 |
| prinsallan: Cool, I move away from checkmate and Tal sticks it to the man! |
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| Jun-17-09 |
| TiTi: 36. Rc5 isn't a sac enough to mention? |
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| Once: A lethal combination of long distance and short distance fighting. The white queen controls a diagonal, the white rook controls a rank and two knights grab the squares in between. A great game. I quite like the pun. Black was poised to deliver a mate of his own, but just didn't have the time to do it. So, broken hjarted indeed. |
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| Jun-17-09 |
| solskytz: A great pun!! I really appreciated it. It's not easy to create a pun to such an anti-musical name as 'Hjarterson"... very well done. Some of the 11-20 place entries are clearly wittier than some of the 1-10 place winners... but of course this is to be expected :-) |
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| ughaibu: Where are the entries listed? |
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Jun-17-09
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| SloVice: <ughaibu: Where are the entries listed?> At the risk of shameless self-promotion, winning entries can be found here: Game Collection: Get Thee to a Punnery! |
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| ughaibu: Thanks. |
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| kevin86: A very appropriate pun as the loser waited with baited breath to mate,only to rudely interrupted by mate on his own king. A didderent type of attack for Tal-bo sacrifices! |
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| lzromeu: I think blacks make a great mistake in move 41.
He could keep a knight or a rook, but prefer Ra1, this move was completely unsound, and initiate a serie of broken-hearts that result in death... |
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| njchess: A great game between, at the time, a rising star and one of the games all time greats. Black's 35. ... Kxg7?! represents a forgivable slip since recapturing with either knight leaves them with little if any scope. Moreover, it would have been extremely difficult to have foreseen Tal's brilliant move of 36. Rc5!!. The 1987 Reykjavik included a strong field in which Tal finished second behind Nigel Short who started the tournament by going 6/6! Sadly, Tal would leave us in 1992. |
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| Jun-17-09 |
| jsheedy: 40...Qa1, 41. Qxa1, Rxa1, 42. Nxd7 seems like black's best chance, but white is 2 pawns up and the c7 knight is at risk. But not 40...Kh6?, 41. Nf7#. |
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| redsoxnation: Another Tal gem. If he had stayed healthy after 1961, we would probably have many more beauties like this one. |
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| WhiteRook48: clever attacks |
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| SatelliteDan: Did Botvinik do something different to regain World Championship re-match? And if so, what? |
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| uaregg: 36. Rc5!! is just a kickass move. Beautiful |
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| JG27Pyth: From 36 to the end, just completely amazing. What a crazy gift he had! |
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Oct-11-09
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| waustad: <satellite>For one thing, he was healthier than Tal. |
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| Nov-08-09 |
| Dravus: White's Rook on c1, there from move 30 to 35, then three moves later is suddenly at b8 till the end of the game. The rook's move from c1 to b8 was sort of like that Superman episode where he had to will himself through a steel wall (not a normal superpower). Check out rock permeability by Tal's Rook at 35, 38. |
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| Nov-16-09 |
| abstract: Tal used to ride the horses well :).. rest in peace great master.. |
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| Nov-16-09 |
| abstract: I bet that Ruy lopez himself never expected that the spanish opening will yield to such a beauty.. Tal and fischer are the only extraordinary players in chess history.. others are merely calculators |
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sac: 38.Rb8
