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| Mar-21-08 | | GMNick: Awesome, new layout! Looks pretty cool. Anyway, good technical game by Spassky. PS Don't get the pun. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | nimzo knight: Spassky was no more than 12 when this game was played. So he is 'junior', 'junior mint' is just a cheap mint. If there is nothing more, its a bad pun! |
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| Mar-21-08 | | Helios727: Was Spassky really a 2300 rating at age 12? |
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| Mar-21-08 | | eternaloptimist: I don't get the pun completely myself. The junior part I get because this game was played in a junior qualifier. Junior Mints are a kind of candy, but I can't quite put it all together. Maybe it's a "sweet" game. Oh well, if anybody figures this pun out please post it. This game definitely shows how devastating pins can be. Spassky kept Aftonov so busy he never really had a chance to castle while @ the same time trying to make the best move on the board. After 11... b4? (a5 is better) he starting losing the thread of the game. Then after 14... gxf6 it was obvious that his  would be a sitting duck & castling would be senseless. In a nutshell, Spassky gave a big time spanking to the boy!! |
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| Mar-21-08 | | weary willy: In UK English slang, "mint" is a word of approbation (eg "Your clothes are mint") ... suspect it does not travel across the Atlantic, judging from your comments. On the other hand, we don't have 'Junior mints', afaik |
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| Mar-21-08 | | hkannan2000: Very nice layout. For reversing the colours, just have to click on the edge of the Board. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | simonepierini: Mmm i think Aftonov had should play better during a soviet junior qualifyer. Seems too easy for Spassky to chekmate his opponent. By the way they where teenager, but i ask to myself, where were the talented players of the gloryous soviet chess school? Does anybody knows if there are great games of any soviet teens(like Karpov)during the '50s or '60s? |
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Mar-21-08
 | | TheAlchemist: Who's gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It's chocolate, it's peppermint... it's delicious! It's very refreshing! |
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| Mar-21-08 | | simonepierini: I found an interesting opening analisys of this match in "Mastering the Chess Openings 1", John Watson page 43. He focus the attemption on the d-pawn and its power on the d5 square. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | roastedrook: I still prefer mychess.. |
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Mar-21-08
 | | hedgeh0g: If something's "mint", it's very good, as in the term: "mint condition". |
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| Mar-21-08 | | drpoundsign: If that wasn't a "bullet" game, Aftonov was sent to a salt mine in Siberia. |
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Mar-21-08
 | | chessgames.com: These are Junior Mints™ : http://www.victoryseeds.com/candyst... Americans eat them at movie theaters where they and Milk Duds™ are often the only choices. That's your lesson in USA culture for today. |
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Mar-21-08
 | | kevin86: Junior Mint-Isn't that the name of Bill Gates' piggybank? Black is left with a double-barrel threat facing him: 22  g7# or e7+ forking king and queen.
Even a fifth-grader can win from here-lol |
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| Mar-21-08 | | ricardolopez: Chesgames.com: wow! This kind of layout is great, allowing to perform the variationd we are thinking. Thank's!! |
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Mar-21-08
 | | Jimfromprovidence: I like 15... exd5 rather than 15 Bxd5 for black. Keeping the bishop on board gives his d pawn an extra protector and keeps white's knight away from c6.
click for larger viewNow, if white follows with 16 Nd4, then 16...Qd7 leaves black in reasonably good shape. 
click for larger view |
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Mar-21-08
 | | karnak64: Anyone who buys candy at an American movie theater (rather than sneaking it in after buying it at the local convenience store) is mathematically impaired. I love the new layout! |
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| Mar-21-08 | | mynameisrandy: Just posting to say that the new layout is completely amazing. I haven't even looked at the game yet, but this board is exactly the kind of thing I've always wanted for going over games here. Nice job, cg.com. |
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Mar-21-08
 | | whiteshark: Comrades, is there a Russian equivalent to <Junior Mints™> ? |
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| Mar-21-08 | | stonebrain2006: This game is mint. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | Sboldm7: Just as a classic automobile can be said to be in "mint" condition, so can a classic game from a junior. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | schnozzmd: Junior Mint made its way back into popular culture in a Seinfeld episode, where Kramer is watching a live surgery eating Junior mints (like at the movies), and after a scuffle with Jerry allows one to fly into the open abdomen of the patient without anyone else but Kramer and Jerry seeing it. At first the patient seems to make a turn for the worse, but then a remarkable recovery, and left the medical establishment wondering what kind of miracle "cured" the patient....it was, of course, the Junior Mint. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | Chessdreamer: This game appears to be a duplicate: 4.-c5 5.Bxc4 e6 6.0-0 a6 7.Qe2 b5 8.Bb3 Nc6 9.Nc3 cxd4 10.Rd1 Bb7 etc. was played in the game
Spassky vs Avtonomov, 1949 |
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Mar-21-08
 | | gah: The correct name of Spassky's oppponent was Avtonomov. This is the first game of Bernard Cafferty's book on Spassky, though the order of the opening moves is given slightly differently. |
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| Mar-21-08 | | alayo: Chessgames.com the flip (board) button on the new layout appears defective, could you take a look? |
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sac: 19.Rxd5
