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Fernando Braga vs Walter Browne
Moron Open (1981), Moron ARG, Mar-??
Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation. Smith-Morra Declined (B22)  ·  1-0

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Feb-16-02  knight: An example of a queenside pawn majority scoring a touchdown.
Jun-29-23
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  FSR: This sounds like a stupid tournament.
Jun-29-23
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  perfidious: One might say it was an idiotic event.
Jun-30-23
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  tamar: Long distance information, give me Moron, ARG

Help me find a partie where Braga is the winner

Browne was higher rated, but found he could not cope

With the very special pressure of the guys at Moron Op.

Sung to Chuck Berry’s Memphis, Tn

Jun-30-23
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  FSR: <perfidious> Believe it or not, in psychology the terms idiot, imbecile, and moron once were not simply insults, nor synonyms. They had very specific, and different, meanings:

<Idiot, imbecile, and moron were, not so long ago, used in a psychological classification system, and each one was assigned to a fairly specific range of abilities.

"Idiots. —Those so defective that the mental development never exceeds that or a normal child of about two years.

Imbeciles. —Those whose development is higher than that of an idiot, but whose intelligence does not exceed that of a normal child of about seven years.

Morons. —Those whose mental development is above that of an imbecile, but does not exceed that of a normal child of about twelve years."

— Edmund Burke Huey, Backward and Feeble-Minded Children, 1912> https://www.merriam-webster.com/wor...

My father had been a psychology major in college, and in my youth I encountered these terms in one of his old textbooks.

Jun-30-23
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  perfidious: <FSR>, I well remember; ah, the advantages of a misspent youth, learning to read, aged two. Got exposed to all sorts of stuff.

Little more background for the Nimzowitsch classic:

<Why must I lose to this idiot?!>

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