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Jan Green-Krotki vs Lawrence Day
"Green Day" (game of the day Jun-07-2025)
Canadian Championship (1978), Toronto CAN, rd 6, Aug-??
Modern Defense: Pterodactyl Variation (B06)  ·  0-1

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Sep-14-14
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  FSR: I tried to submit <Green Day> as a pun for this game, but someone had beaten me to it. <Sob>
Sep-14-14  DanielBryant: Why is the pawn off limits on move 46?
Sep-14-14
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  FSR: <DanielBryant> Do you mean the rook? Either capture of it is met by 46...g5 followed by ...f4+ if the queen/king moves. If you do mean the pawn on d3, either capture of it would be met by 46...Rxf3+ winning White's queen.
Sep-14-14
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  FSR: There is also the important variation 46.Kxf4? g5+ 47.Bxg5 hxg5+ 48.Qxg5 Qxf3#.
Sep-15-14  DanielBryant: <FSR> I did have the rook in mind, thanks for the explanation.
Jun-07-25  goodevans: The way that Day cracked open White's K-side was most impressive.

After 46...g5


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... would I have played 47.Kxd3, letting the f-pawn go? No.

But that's because I'm not smart enough to realise that the f-pawn was a gonner anyway. Black was threatening 47...Rxf3+ 48.Rxf3 Bxf3 49.Qxf3 f4+! 50. Kf2 Qxf3+ 51. Kxf3 g4+, securing the d-pawn's promotion, and there's precious little White could have done to stop it.

Good game.

Jun-07-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp:
<<The Man With The Blue Guitar>

The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. <The day was green>.

They said, <You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.>

The man replied, <Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.>
>

- Wallace Stevens

Jun-07-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Like déjà vu all over again. I Theodorovich vs L Day, 1962.
Jun-07-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <FSR: Like déjà vu all over again. I Theodorovich vs L Day, 1962.>

At that link the pun is explained.

I Theodorovich vs L Day, 1962 (kibitz #8)

<Jan-21-15 Sneaky: <I don't get the "Green".> Lawrence Day was in his early twenties, he was "green'; inexperienced.>

Jun-07-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <offramp> Sixteen years later, Day was no longer green.
Jun-07-25  Thegamelover: < FSR: I tried to submit <Green Day> as a pun for this game, but someone had beaten me to it.> How come the "pun" is so important to you? I have noticed that more than once.

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