| Dec-31-05 | | Capa15: Black should have resigned much earlier. Happy New Year all. |
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| Dec-31-05 | | notsodeepthought: Bjorg's resistance was useless, but <cg>'s pun would have been better if Santana had won with black. Unfortunately, the only time in this database where she had black, she lost, damn it. |
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| Dec-31-05 | | Gantastic: Cute... Santana spends fully ten turns to capture the b7 pawn and pin Thorgrimsdottir's queen. |
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| Dec-31-05 | | syracrophy: Black was lost from a lot of moves back, anyways. |
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Dec-31-05
 | | al wazir: Why did black keep shuttling between e7 and f8 in moves 35--45? Why not move the king to d7 and d8? Specifically, why didn't she play 44...Kd8 ? What was she afraid of? White can't snap up the king-side pawns because of black's mate threat. As soon as white stops checking black will play Qc1+ or Nf2+. |
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| Dec-31-05 | | ReikiMaster: Fork 25.Nb5 ends up winning pawn a7. However, white gets a bad bishop which makes winning difficult. 61.f6! finally solves the problem very nicely. Cute - yes, but this was played over 3 years ago. You can't expect administrators to keep a great pun on the shelf longer than that! |
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| Dec-31-05 | | Waffles: Santana did the song "black magic woman" thats funny |
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| Dec-31-05 | | dakgootje: didnt black have better moves around move 35-45???? |
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| Dec-31-05 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <didnt black have better moves around move 35-45????> <dakgootje> Perhaps 36...Qe7. Nice GOTD! I like the pun most of all. :) |
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Dec-31-05
 | | OhioChessFan: I don't get the point of the King e7-f8 shuffle either. Once the Queens were exchanged, the game was over. 44...Kd8 or 45...Kf7 both look better than allowing Qa3. Not sure why Black played on so long. Looks like one of those Pono games where he thinks someone will make a patzer move to allow stalemate. |
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Dec-31-05
| | OhioChessFan: <EmperorAtahualpa>,exchanging Queens while down a pawn, pawns on both sides, and Knight vs. Bishop? I wouldn't like Black's chances. h3, Kh2 and I don't see much hope. |
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| Dec-31-05 | | TTLump: I like Black's position after 17.... Nc5. Black is seriously challenging for control of the center and there is a lot of air in front of white's King. and then after 18.f5? Bh5, 19.Nde2 ... Black has a real chance to strengthen her hold on the initiative with something like 19. ... Rfd8, but instead she plays 19. ... Bxe2?, relieving the pressure and allowing white to re-gain the initiative. |
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Dec-31-05
| | OhioChessFan: <I like Black's position after 17.... Nc5. Black is seriously challenging for control of the center and there is a lot of air in front of white's King.
and then after 18.f5? Bh5, 19.Nde2 ... Black has a real chance to strengthen her hold on the initiative with something like 19. ... Rfd8, but instead she plays 19. ... Bxe2?, relieving the pressure and allowing white to re-gain the initiative.> <TTLump>, interesting analysis. 19...Bxe2 makes the Nc5 move a total waste of time. I suppose Black was worried about the Bishop getting trapped, but that would still have taken 2 moves for White to accomplish. There was no need for the immediate exchange of minor pieces. |
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Dec-31-05
 | | Sneaky: Carlos! http://www.wallpapers-zone.com/wall... |
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| Dec-31-05 | | kevin86: Black had the long-time set up for the Philador's Legacy,but she eventually fell into a trap and had her queen pinned-she was two pawns down and the rest was easy for white. |
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| Jan-01-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <exchanging Queens while down a pawn, pawns on both sides, and Knight vs. Bishop? I wouldn't like Black's chances. h3, Kh2 and I don't see much hope.> <OhioChessFan> Of course, you're right. But to answer <dakgootje>'s question, there are no serious alternatives for Black's 35th until 45th moves, are there? 36...Qe7 was all I could come up with. |
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Jan-02-06
| | al wazir: <dakgootje: didnt black have better moves>; <EmperorAtahualpa: there are no serious alternatives> 44...Kd8. |
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| Jan-02-06 | | hitman84: why is the game called "Black Magic Woman" ? |
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| Jan-02-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <hitman84> "Black Magic Woman" is a song title (as well as album title) from the band Santana. I guess it also has to do with the many Queen checks in this game. |
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| Jan-02-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <al wazir> If 44...Kd8, then 45.Qxg7, right? |
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Jan-02-06
| | al wazir: <EmperorAtahualpa:> 44...Kd8 45. Qxg7 Qc1+ 46. Bf1 Qxf1#. |
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| Jan-03-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <al wazir> Wow, you're right! I totally missed that. |
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| Jan-03-06 | | prinsallan: Quiz:
Santana did a version of the song, but who did the Original?
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It was Peter Green who wrote it and the band Fleetwood Mac performed did the original back in the Sixties. |
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Aug-06-20
| | OhioChessFan: Well, curses. I was only 15 years too late on this pun. Here's the game I was going to submit: D Smerdon vs J L Munoz, 2006 |
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Aug-06-20
| | OhioChessFan: <prins>, I heard that not too long ago. That's why the pun was on my mind. Probably people discussing Green's career upon his death. But a nice piece of trivia I'll be passing on. |
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