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Apr-29-17
 | | beatgiant: <keypusher>
<Not so big of a compliment>
Maybe, an overrated compliment? |
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| Apr-29-17 | | Mats G: Tasteless pun. AA means Alcoholics Anonymous. |
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| Apr-29-17 | | Poulsen: <Mats G><Tasteless pun. AA means Alcoholics Anonymous.> AA also means Anti-Aircraft as well as Alekhines initials off course. So IMO the pun makes perfectly sense - the AA Battery is in this game gunning down AN's defense involving a king flying to the rescue. |
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| Apr-29-17 | | An Irishman: Good Evening: <Mats G> indeed AA could mean alcoholics anonymous, but does AA stand for anything else? I'm sure Chessgames.com has the best intentions. |
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Apr-29-17
| | beatgiant: <all>
AA battery, a standard 1.5v electric battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_ba... |
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Apr-29-17
 | | playground player: Big shootout shaping up, and Black is outgunned. If both rooks and the queen aren't a battery, I don't know what is. |
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Apr-29-17
 | | keypusher: <Poulsen> is pretty obviously correct about the idea behind the "AA Battery" pun, especially because the featured two R + Q battery is known as "Alekhine's Gun." |
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Apr-29-17
| | keypusher: From 2005:
<micartouse: I hereby propose to all chess fans that the term "Alehine's Gun" be replaced by "AAA Battery," (spoken as "Triple-A Battery") which simultaneously combines the initials of his name, the tactic in question, the word "triple" which is how many pieces dominate the file, and the fact that such batteries are often of the 'alkaline' variety. How has this obvious pun been overlooked? Try it yourself and you'll agree "Alekhine's Gun" doesn't have the same magic at all ...> |
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| May-02-17 | | Howard: Regarding keypusher's inquiry from about ten postings back, the other three vastly "overrated" games according to Soltis, were Lasker-Napier 1904, Lasker-Capablanca 1914, and Reti-Bogolovov 1924. Yes, I know Reti's opponent's name is grossly misspelled but I'm too tired right now to look up the exact spelling. |
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| May-03-17 | | Howard: Actually, the correct spelling is Bogoljubov---now that I've had my customary two cups of coffee, I'm now awake enough to look it up. Yesterday, I hadn't had much coffee so I was too tired to check the spelling. |
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May-03-17
| | keypusher: <Howard: Regarding keypusher's inquiry from about ten postings back, the other three vastly "overrated" games according to Soltis, were Lasker-Napier 1904, Lasker-Capablanca 1914, and Reti-Bogolovov 1924.> Thanks. I agree about Lasker vs W Napier, 1904, though I suspect it stood out more back when it was played than now. I don't agree about the other two.
Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914 Capablanca played really badly (for him). No argument. But there is a grandeur to the finale that you see very seldom. Here is Reti vs Bogoljubov, 1924. Marshall vs Bogoljubov, 1924 is often suggested as a better candidate for the tournament brilliancy prize. No doubt the final combination was a lot deeper. But ultimately, what happens? An underdefended king gets chased into the middle of the board and succumbs. A familiar story. But the final move from Reti-Bogoljubov? That's unforgettable. 
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Jul-09-17
 | | drollere: playing through this game is like eating cold porridge. |
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| Sep-09-17 | | A.T PhoneHome: Pretty good pun actually. The styling of it brings to mind some war apparatus such as M46 Patton, which is only fitting since strategically chess game can be likened to a war. But I also feel that "Under the Gun" was a better pun. It was more ominous. Naming the battery "the Gun" shrouds it in mystery. |
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| Oct-08-17 | | Mats G: It seems inappropriate to say "the" San Remo tournament book, because there are many. In Das Erste Italienische Grossturnier San Remo 1930 by Chaluretzky and Tóth (Adolf Kramer, Breslau 1931) the game ends by black resigning after 30. -, Qe8 31. b5. Ståhlberg in his Schack och schackmästare (Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1952) says that black played 30. -, Qe8 but resigned before white made his move. Alekhine himself is notoriously unreliable in recording his own games. |
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Nov-20-17
 | | Jonathan Sarfati: I presume Alekhine was aware of Reti vs Spielmann, 1928 |
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| May-02-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: Looks like Alekhine giving Nimzo a lesson in how to put an opponent in Zugzwang. |
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| May-02-19 | | JimNorCal: Alekhine was incredibly dominating during this tournament and also Bled 1931 and a couple others. What a beast! |
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Apr-21-20
| | Marcelo Bruno: The blockade and zugzwang master became victim of his own game style! |
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| Feb-14-21 | | Chesgambit: Nc8?? |
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Feb-14-21
| | carpovius: In San Remo Alekhine scored 14/15 in such field of players. What kind performance in Elo numbers is it? |
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Feb-14-21
 | | OhioChessFan: <carpo> according to Chessmetrics: <2865 in San Remo, 1930, scoring 13/14 (93%) vs 2626-rated> |
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Feb-14-21
| | OhioChessFan: http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... |
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Feb-14-21
| | OhioChessFan: Strange that a 2821 projected to 10/14. AA beat that by 3 points and the performance rating was only 40 points higher. Hard to believe the numbers are correct. |
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Feb-15-21
| | carpovius: <OCF> numbers of chess metrics look incorrect (cf. the crosstable above e.g.). Is there more reliable source to count the numbers? Intuitively AA's San Remo performance should be higher than 3000. |
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Feb-15-21
| | beatgiant: <OhioChessFan>,<carpovius>
Chessmetrics ratings are not the same as elo ratings. The author (Sonas) created his own formula which is explained on his site here: http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... From the 1970s to the early 2000s, both chessmetrics ratings and elo ratings are available and you can check how they differ. |
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