<Maybe Captain Kennedy suffered from the old English code of honour where the attacker must always move forward, and sideward passes (the Dutch Disease, introduced at Manchester United by Daley Blind) are prohibited.>

<sneaky pete
Member since Jun-03-04

You have nothing to fear but my library.>

NEEDED ASAP: One foolhardy individual with strong arms, climbing ability, good balance and endurance to clear multiple roofs of six feet of fresh snow. No experience required, just a good relationship with the almighty.>

D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024 (kibitz #73)

The superb User: Open Defence created a chess rule for all time:

<Dec-05-24 Open Defence: <Make luft, not war.>>

<Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede responded to Trump's comments, saying "we are not for sale".>

<Wait? Mute spoke?

<sfod: I think the loser gets to keep both [scoresheets]>

How about chess players? Well, Anatoly Karpov was given many shares in <Petromir>!
When Karpov was a boy liked oil, and now he owns a quadrillion barrels of oil.🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️

Today's Memorable Quote is about <US> (i.e. humans), as chess players.

<HeMateMe: Roman Dzindzichashvili has always been one of those colourful people who make chess fun. I remember seeing him sleeping on a bench in WSP early one afternoon.

I told my friend, "See that guy on the bench? He's one of the world's best chess players!"

"The bum?

He's not a bum, he just sometimes sleeps on the benches when tired."

At that point Dzindzi's friend woke him up and they walked off. Roman noticed I was gesturing to him, smiled. This was the early '80s.>

You see, it's one of those great <souvenirs> that are dropped randomly at cg.com - and they lighten up our lives!!

That was Lobron vs Dzindzichashvili, 1979 (kibitz #31).

User: Open Defence was the prefect bystander being struck by lightning at the <>right place and the right time and space. Hallejujasyzxgy!

Prague Masters (2025) (kibitz #1)

Three perfect words:

One of the kibitzes about this game was

<<Firouzja vs Nepomniachtchi, 2022 (kibitz #6)>

<User: Messiah: Assblasted: <https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm...>>>

*******

<Messiah> did not pass on His message.

But His message was passed on by <Teyss>:

Firouzja vs Nepomniachtchi, 2022 (kibitz #22)

<User: Teyss: ....

<<"Alireza Firouzja finally logs off of Lichess at 5:45am after spending 12:45am to 5:45am the night before his game against Ian Nepomniachtchi (3pm) playing 30s bullet chess. This included a 3.5 hour 250 game match against Daniel Naroditsky that Firouzja lost 108-142.">

[Now this is the voice of Teyss:] Maybe Firouzja considered this to be part of his training or a way to relax, but it didn't work. The game looks like the domination of positional chess, whatever that means, over attempts at easy tactics.>

[This is me.] I think it is memorable that a player like Firouzja would play a 250-game match⚔️ in one night in the middle of a tournament.

Dominguez Perez vs C Yoo, 2025 (kibitz #8)

User: dheilke:

He got a bee in his Easter bonnet about ginger Simon Kim Williams (kibitz #174).

<...Not everybody in the world worships your beardy old man. We have beardy old men of our own.

History is replete with beardy old men dispensing advice and mostly dying of syphilis (in the East, anyway) - I suppose it's worth celebrating the ONE beardy old man who dispensed sagely advice and DIDN'T die of syphilis - by dispensing plastic symbols of fertility filled with candy?? You Westerners are weird...>

Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858

<Stockfish vs. Morphy!: I perversely ran this game through Stockfish, which gave Morphy a 97.9% accuracy, and estimated rating of 2500....>

Vladimir Kramnik (kibitz #43198)

<Check It Out: Vlad the Implier.>

<saffuna: Wordle was blocked early this morning!>

<al wazir: Hacked?>

<perfidious wrote: I claim no familiarity with Edward Teller but was amused to read that he blamed Jane Fonda for his 1979 heart attack. >

FIDE World Cup (2025) (kibitz #251)

<My recollection (also always correct) is that Aronian was very good quite early but didn't take chess so terribly seriously. For a decade he seemed to be content to be comfortably within the top 10 without trying to make it to the very top, let alone going for the crown.>

It is from User: tamar.

Sindarov vs D Gukesh, 2026

(This had been posted within an hour of the end of this game:)

<tamar: No comments on a queen sacrifice game?>

<Aravindh seems in prep after 15.g4 but engine is not impressed. Weird position though, looks to me both players are worse.>

A reasonable guess, but I don't see any kibitz comments using his link. (And <troller> isn't on my i-list)

So, I think it's because he didn't use the right-click trick to get the link. You know, the ones that show up with the <(kibtz #NNN)> elaboration.

I think those links survive the migration of a live game to a replayable (normal archived) one. But check me on that!

Here's a better, ignore-list proof link:

C Aravindh vs Niemann, 2026 (kibitz #1)

The comment is by <troller>:

C Aravindh vs Niemann, 2026 (kibitz #1)

<saffuna: <perfidious: While there is no truly comprehensive rating system in poker that serves as the equivalent of Elo in chess...>

Yes, there is. It's called money.>

6 krakatoan words!!

<<FSR>

<I'll be giving up this page for Lent.>

I'm not sure that's really a sacrifice. It's like giving up okra.>

Daniel Gormally (kibitz #231)

Gormally: <"I'm always right because I am a GM. GMs are <always> right. We are always right about everything. Don't forget that.">

<<Twilight of the Idol> I am the captain of my chessboard. When I play Chess960, I find that someone has smashed my rudder.>