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Mar-28-15
 | | Richard Taylor: He's 2709 I thought he might be about 1200 with a game like that, was he on the turps? |
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| Mar-28-15 | | zanzibar: Maybe <CG> should have an "Ignore Pun" setting? You'd also have to unfortunately screen out many of the comments as well. |
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| Mar-28-15 | | morfishine: The Schurade continues |
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| Mar-28-15 | | 5hrsolver: Why do they still call this the Modern defense? I mean I would understand if they called it the modern defense in the 16th century. |
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| Mar-28-15 | | yadasampati: To <5hrsolver>: we also still speak about "Art Nouveau" (literally: "new art", also known as Jugendstil), dating from the period 1890-1914. It would become quite confusing if the reference of such expressions would constantly change |
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| Mar-28-15 | | Ratt Boy: I think it's a WONderful plan to play Nc6-a5-c6-a5…lather, rinse, repeat. No WAY can White improve his position while your knight is doing the hokey-pokey. |
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| Mar-28-15 | | yadasampati: To <Richard Taylor>: i am surprised to hear that you hate puns, while your picture shows Groucho Marx, whose life practically consists of puns and jokes |
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| Mar-28-15 | | newzild: <HeMateMe> You won't find many Kiwis willing to drink Fosters, mate! |
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Mar-28-15
 | | scormus: <newzild> all the best in the final! |
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| Mar-28-15 | | 5hrsolver: To <yadasampati>: Thanks for the clarification. With the word "Modern" and "Hypermodern" I thought they were referring to the year 2015! |
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Mar-28-15
| | scormus: <5hrsolver> what worries me is they might start using terms like post-modern, neo-modern .... or neo-classical :( |
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| Mar-28-15 | | whiteshark: All my life I had a rapport with black pieces. |
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| Mar-28-15 | | JohnBoy: <Richard Taylor: He's 2709 I thought he might be about 1200 with a game like that> Usually your comments are pretty reasonable. Are you off the meds? |
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| Mar-28-15 | | morfishine: <Richard Taylor> is right. 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? <Richard Taylor> is right, this really is pathetic for something called GOTD |
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Mar-28-15
 | | al wazir: <morfishine: <Richard Taylor> is right. Most of these puns are pathetic attempts to put a twist on some players name.> Right on! It's time to retire the Pun of the Day. |
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| Mar-28-15 | | lionsden: wondering , why black didn't save his bishop on
33. ...Bf6 ( He could have saved his bishop )
Also, he missed
39. ....Nf4 pinning the white knight ? |
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| Mar-29-15 | | newzild: Good questions.
On 33...Bf6, I think 34. d5 wins material because of a discovered attack on the Re6, eg, 33...Nxd5 34. Nd4 and 33...Qxd5 34. Nc3. On 39...Nf4, White simply plays 40. Nxc3 (the Re1 is defended by the Bh4). |
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Mar-29-15
| | scormus: <morfishine: .... Most of these puns are pathetic attempts to put a twist on some players name. > I agree, seems to me a very poor standard of pun lately - often neither funny nor in good taste. Trouble is, I suppose, that people's names are soft targets for punmakers wo cannot think up good puns :( |
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Mar-29-15
 | | HeMateMe: No Fosters beer in New Zealand? aren't you folks first cousins, or something like that? |
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Mar-30-15
| | Richard Taylor: James Joyce was the man for the Pun, not the pun as seen here. I give myself permission to be tired of certain kinds of pun. |
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Mar-30-15
| | Richard Taylor: < JohnBoy: <Richard Taylor: He's 2709 I thought he might be about 1200 with a game like that> Usually your comments are pretty reasonable. Are you off the meds? > Well his 'attack' I could have refuted and I am a bunny at chess, but thanks for the compliment embedded in the mild insult....as to the meds, I have been on medication since I was 19, so your joke is a bit wearying. I started using anti-depressants, that worked in fact very well, and also sedatives. I have needed these all my life although I stopped the anti-depressants... But I didn't know who Rapport was, of course I knew he was probably a strong player and he most certainly is, but in the game ABOVE he didn't play well. |
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Mar-30-15
| | Richard Taylor: Mind you if someone were to (perhaps, possibly, one day...only if they....a'...I mean....I....)::: use a pun on the names of say 'Steadman' or 'Bruce Watson' (or some other, I have some others in the pipelines,,,) ...or if they were to feel the deep urge to use a (good, punny pun)...I aham...I hmm....might be immensely pleaseed after all...hmmm.. (ego they call it, hmm)...ahemmmmm....hmm...my fellow country man and good mate (one Benzolious...Benzol I mean...) once had the...ah.....the...hmmmm....the honour (sic)...ooops I mean 'honor' your Honors...(game of the d...)...I wouldn't object....(too much).... In short, for the right game: nothing like a sunny funny punny pun. |
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Mar-30-15
| | Richard Taylor: For 'Steadman' I could suggest the subtle 'dead man".....or 'steady as it goes'?
Watson, well, our Sherlock Holmes reading would come in handy there...after all, the sac on f6 is so 'elementary'...elementary... The others who were good at jokes and the complex pun were Dennis Nordan and Frank Muir, as a boy in the 50s we used to listen to their long ingenious extended pun-stories on 'My Word'...from the BBC. |
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| Apr-02-15 | | newzild: <HeHateMe> It would be like telling an Englishman to run off and drink Champagne, with the difference that France is much closer to England than Australia is to NZ. |
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Apr-02-15
| | HeMateMe: Waitaminutehere...England and france were enemies for centuries. But, the Aussies and Kiwis have always been friends, right, outside of minor sports rivalries? |
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