| Jan-17-23 | | fisayo123: Expert precision by Nodirbek.
If you hadn't told me, I'll have thought he'd been doing this "supertournament" thing for a while. This is his 1st one and he looks extremely comfortable and unflappable. |
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Jan-17-23
 | | Check It Out: Great game. A very complicated endgame. |
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Jan-21-23
| | Check It Out: Maghsoodloo kindly walked into the mate to finish a losing game. |
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Jan-21-23
 | | MissScarlett: <Why do elephants have big ears? Because Noddy wouldn't pay the ransom.
True story: I was in a biology class when the tutor actually asked this question for real. This actually happened, no joke. Finally, after all these years, I was actually able to give the joke answer in an actual real-life honest-to-goodness context. This was it. My time had come. This was the moment I had been waiting for and had trained for all my life. He didn't get it.> |
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| Jan-21-23 | | Cibator: Suspect most non-UK types wouldn't either. Or UK ones below a certain age. |
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| Jan-21-23 | | nalinw: Some of us in the colonies above a certain age get it too - :-) |
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Jan-21-23
 | | FSR: Here is an explanation of the "joke": https://arstechnica.com/civis/threa... |
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Jan-21-23
 | | HeMateMe: I'm old enough to have voted for Jimmy Carter. Who the hell is 'Noddy'? |
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Jan-21-23
| | FSR: <HeMateMe> Apparently "Noddy" and "Big Ears" are characters in children's books by Enid Blyton. Said books are, I gather, much more popular in England than in the United States. I'd never heard of Enid Blyton. |
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Jan-21-23
| | FSR: <Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have been translated into 90 languages. As of June 2019, Blyton held 4th place for the most translated author. She wrote on a wide range of topics, including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives. She is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers, and Malory Towers books, although she also wrote many others including the St Clare's, The Naughtiest Girl and The Faraway Tree series. Her first book, Child Whispers, a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. Following the commercial success of her early novels, such as Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) and The Enchanted Wood (1939), Blyton went on to build a literary empire, sometimes producing 50 books a year, in addition to her prolific magazine and newspaper contributions. Her writing was unplanned and sprang largely from her unconscious mind: she typed her stories as events unfolded before her. The sheer volume of her work and the speed with which she produced it led to rumors that Blyton employed an army of ghost writers, a charge she vigorously denied. Blyton's work became increasingly controversial among literary critics, teachers, and parents beginning in the 1950s, due to the alleged unchallenging nature of her writing and her themes, particularly in the Noddy series. Some libraries and schools banned her works, and from the 1930s until the 1950s the BBC refused to broadcast her stories because of their perceived lack of literary merit. Her books have been criticized as elitist, sexist, racist, xenophobic, and at odds with the more progressive environment that was emerging in post-World War II Britain, but they have continued to be bestsellers since her death in 1968.> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_... |
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Jan-21-23
 | | offramp: The game ends on a <GoodAnarchist> mate. |
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Jan-21-23
| | MissScarlett: <Famous Five>
Anyone for Aunt Fanny's gooey macaroons with lashings of ginger beer? |
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| Jan-21-23 | | eaglewing: 45. ... Rxh3+ 46. Kg1 Td3 would defend against Rd4 and drag out the White King more into the open. I would expect a perpetual-like draw. Or do I miss something important? Maybe next: 47. Qxg6 Qc5+ 48. Kh2 Rd6 and while the Black King is more open, the Pc4 is more advanced. |
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| Jan-21-23 | | Allderdice83: Black's still holding on until 50 ... Kc6?? Stockfish gives 50 ... Rd6 53. Qb7+ Kd8 54. Rf1 Ke6 55. Qg7 a5 56. Rd1+ Kd6 57. Rb1 Qc7 + 2.57. |
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Jan-21-23
| | Check It Out: Noddy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy... |
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| Jan-21-23 | | stone free or die: There's a 1963 cartoon version too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnR... |
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| Feb-26-23 | | cehertan: Very impressive game. |
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