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| Aug-05-09 | | Everett: <InspiredByMorphy> ???? |
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| Aug-07-09 | | InspiredByMorphy: <Everett> LOL - Thanks for the most vague reply I've ever received on this website. |
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| Aug-11-09 | | Everett: <InspiredByMorphy> I offered variations to answer your questions at a time when others had not. It may have been an issue of timing, but I did not understand why you did not acknowledge my effort, at least. |
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| Jun-13-11 | | wals: Rybka 4 x 64
Working backwards.
Black resigns after 43.Bf1, +6.83.
42...Bc6, + 6.83. Best, Rd8, +4.65.
Shortfall, 2.18.
36...Kf8, +4.65. Best, Re8, +2.80.
Shortfall, 1.85.
31..Qh4, +2.75. Best, Qg3, +2.18.
Shortfall, 0.57.
29...Qxe5, +2.18. Best, Bxe5, +1.23.
Shortfall, 0.95.
28...Rb5, +1.23. Best, Qd7, +0.77.
Shortfall, 0.46.
26...exf4, +1.06. Best, Nc5, 0.45.
Shortfall, 0.55.
25...e5, +0.70. Best, Nc5, +0.17.
Shortfall, 0.53.
The game was equal 25. dxe4, =0.17.
Total Black shortfall, 7.09.
Rybka analysis move 43.+6.83.
Niggling errors from move 25 weakened Black's game. |
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| Jul-14-13 | | Ulhumbrus: It is hardly obvious that 28...Rb5 exposes the rook to a fork. However after 29 Nxe5 Qxe5 30 Nc4!! forks the queen as well as the square d6. One fork prepares another. |
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| Mar-19-16 | | Conrad93: This is a Closed Sicilian. |
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Aug-21-16
 | | PawnSac: < WhiteRook48: 2 Ne2 was not expected > no matter. I used to do it in rapid games just to nibble at my opponents clock. But after 3.d4 it transposes back to a normal open sicilian. It's a normal convention that may or may not signal the closed. |
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Aug-21-16
| | PawnSac: Here's an example....
Fischer vs Spassky, 1992 |
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| Sep-15-17 | | Saniyat24: Never seen a King's Indian Attack like this one, with White's bishop pair so much on the right...the knights were fighting, and the bishops stood guard...very nice game...! |
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| Sep-15-17 | | SChesshevsky: I get the impression it was more a Closed Sicilian and an extremely passive one. Probably headed for a draw until Fischer appeared to miss the fork. More evidence, in my opinion, that Spassky didn't have much ambition to top Fischer in this exhibition. |
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| Sep-16-17 | | RookFile: I think that sometimes he would try to bait Fischer into overextending himself. |
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| Sep-08-18 | | jabinjikanza: Woooo my man terribly fallen |
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Apr-10-24
 | | HeMateMe: I would vote this one Best Pun of the Year. |
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| Apr-10-24 | | BxChess: Thanks <HeHateMe>. From memory what I actually submitted was "Chess nut roasted on an open file". I uploaded it in December with a view to seasonal topicality. Still, almost the same and better later than never. |
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Apr-10-24
 | | beatgiant: Christmas puns are starting earlier and earlier every year! |
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| Apr-10-24 | | SkySports: <I would vote this one Best Pun of the Year> Once we could do it with "The Caissars", but those days are gone :( |
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Apr-10-24
 | | OhioChessFan: <Bx: Thanks <HeHateMe>. From memory what I actually submitted was "Chess nut roasted on an open file". > That would have been far better. |
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Apr-10-24
 | | Korora: With apologies to Shakespeare:
What a noble mind was there o'erthrown. |
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Apr-10-24
 | | offramp: I hated the name "the Caissars".
They should have been Oscars. And the awards could be called Punnos. |
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| Apr-10-24 | | LivBlockade: The game Mamedyarov vs Shankland, 2021 was GOTD earlier today. Does anyone know why it was replaced? |
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| Apr-10-24 | | RookFile: These kind of positions can be really tough to play with black. White keeps all the pieces on the board and we know where black's king is. There's a million possibilities with every move. |
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| Apr-10-24 | | thegoodanarchist: < OhioChessFan:
<<<Bx: Thanks <HeHateMe>. From memory what I actually submitted was "Chess nut roasted on an open file". >>> That would have been far better.>
I agree. |
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| Apr-10-24 | | Granny O Doul: On the old "daily dirt" chess blog, Mig Greengard wondered if any chess jokes existed besides the old, um, standby with the punchline "chess nuts roasting in an open foyer". I did offer one, which is now pretty well past its freshness date. If I see or think of another, I guess I'll post here. |
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Apr-11-24
 | | sakredkow: <On the old "daily dirt" chess blog, Mig Greengard...>
Pretty much the most entertaining chess blog then or since. The pioneers. |
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| Apr-11-24 | | Petrosianic: Greengard's Chess Ninja board was also really good in its day. Unfortunately, he killed it with an odd policy that the moderators should never do any actual moderating, only maintain order by their presence. But after Mig publicly chewed out his mods more than once for doing something rather than nothing, they were no longer able to maintain order by their presence. The few troublemakers knew it was okay to flout the mods. One of them, a guy named Chess Fan, knew almost nothing about chess, and lived only to post about himself, the rapture, how much he loved Kasparov (a lot), and how much he loved the Philadelphia Eagles (also a lot). Oh yes, and to brag about how many posts he'd written. This one guy, more than anyone else, completely killed Mig's board, with Mig's blessing. It may be that Mig was so busy working with Kasparov by then that he didn't care about the board any more, and was okay with it being killed. He never even announced that the Daily Dirt was ending, just stopped writing it one day. |
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