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| Aug-29-12 | | Nick46: indeed |
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| Oct-19-15 | | TheFocus: From a simultaneous exhibition in Bandung, Indonesia at the Society Concordia on March 2, 1933. Alekhine scored +47=2-1.
See <Tijdschrift van den Nederlandsch-Indischen Schaakbond 1933>, pg. 94-96. |
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Apr-13-20
 | | OhioChessFan: No clue on the pun... |
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| Apr-13-20 | | Nasruddin Hodja: Good pun. If I had seen this game earlier, I would have proposed Smart Alek, Dim Wit...though that would be a tad unfair, since 49. … Rxe2 was the only way to keep the game going, if only briefly. |
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Apr-13-20
 | | NM JRousselle: 47... Ne4 looks equal for Black. |
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| Apr-13-20 | | faulty: I wonder how Alekhine got to Bandung. A world traveller, indeed. Would have bet my bottom dollar if someone had asked me if Alekhine ever visited Indonesia that no, no, no way. i know, Bandung is beautiful. But must have been so relatively remote from the chess world in the 1930s |
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| Apr-13-20 | | 7he5haman: I don't understand the logic behind 26...Be8.
26...Bf7 looks a better try to me. |
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| Apr-13-20 | | 7he5haman: *behind 26...Be8 and the subsequent shuffling, only to end up playing Bf7 anyway. |
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| Apr-13-20 | | goodevans: <NM JRousselle: 47... Ne4 looks equal for Black.> Indeed. In fact I would go a little further...
click for larger viewAfter <48.Kxe4 Bc4+ 49.Re5> (anything else gives black the advantage) <49...Rxe5+ 50.Bxe5 Bxe2> the opposite coloured Bs mean a dead draw. White could try to avoid the draw with <48.Re5 Nxc3 49.Bc4> hoping the double pin will win back the piece, but <49...Nd1+ 50.Ke4 Nf2+> wins for black (<51.Kf3 Rf8+> or <51.Ke3 Ng4+>). |
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Apr-13-20
| | OhioChessFan: Still not getting the pun. Anyone? |
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| Apr-13-20 | | Ironmanth: Curious game to be sure! Y'all have a safe week out there. Thanks, chessgames. |
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| Apr-13-20 | | paavoh: @ OCF: Perhaps you did not see this earlier note: "I would have proposed Smart Alek, Dim Wit.." |
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Apr-13-20
| | OhioChessFan: Yes, I saw it. I still don't get it. |
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Apr-13-20
 | | MissScarlett: <keypusher> to the rescue... |
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Apr-13-20
| | MissScarlett: Hopeless the lot of you...
<When the ale is in the wit is out.> http://www.shakespeare-online.com/p... |
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| Apr-14-20 | | Granny O Doul: Nice citation, though speaking for myself...
I find that the longer I sit
At the bar, so much greater my wit.
But memory slips,
And my Wildean quips
Evanesce in a lethean pit. |
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Apr-14-20
| | MissScarlett: Note that the proverbial 'wit' is used in the older sense of intelligence in general. Fitting because Alekhine's most egregious defeats in simuls are invariably met with, <Was Alekhine drunk?> |
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| Apr-14-20 | | SpamIAm: <faulty>, Alekhine played a worldwide series of simultaneous exhibitions in the early 1930s, including Chicago (1933 World's Fair), Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and the aforementioned Bandung. I would assume that he had wealthy backing, either the French government, wealthy sponsors, probably both. In fact, he met his fourth wife Grace at one of the simuls in Tokyo (she played chess). She was the wealthy widow of a tea merchant. Re Bandung specifically, perhaps because it was referred to as the Paris of Java at the time. ;) |
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Apr-14-20
 | | Diademas: @ <SpamIAm>
Hello! Just wanted to say: that's an awesome username. |
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Apr-14-20
| | MissScarlett: <In fact, he met his fourth wife Grace at one of the simuls in Tokyo (she played chess).> So it was thought. I think I showed otherwise: Grace Freeman |
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| Apr-14-20 | | SpamIAm: <Diademas>- Thank you. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing. Origin of your name?
<MissScarlett>- Thank you. I stand corrected. |
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Apr-14-20
| | OhioChessFan: Punning <Alekhine> and <ale>. Wow, that's a once in a lifetime stroke of genius. |
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Apr-14-20
| | MissScarlett: <Cantankerous, irritable, vituperative, Steinitz could be contemptuous of the efforts of others to understand his ideas. “Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?”, was his answer to one hapless enquirer.’> |
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| Apr-14-20 | | Granny O Doul: <Punning <Alekhine> and <ale>. Wow, that's a once in a lifetime stroke of genius.> It must be admitted that, with all allowances made, the pun limps. But if you pronounce "Alek in" as "ale kin" (again, quite a stretch, but work with me please), you might at least guess what the idea was. |
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| Jan-04-23 | | Messiah: Extremely weak pun. |
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