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Reuben Fine vs George Page
"Paging Dr. Fine" (game of the day May-09-2020)
Folkestone Olympiad (1933), Folkestone ENG, rd 2, Jun-13
Budapest Defense: Alekhine Variation (A52)  ·  1-0

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May-09-20
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  al wazir: 32...Re8 33. Be5+ Kg8 34. Rg1+ Kf7 35. Rg7#

Or 32...Bxf4 33. exd8=Q+ Rxd8 34. f6 Qc7 35. Re7.

May-09-20  Granny O Doul: 33. f6 is also very rough to deal with.
May-09-20
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  scutigera: "Page Got Fined" would be a better description.
May-09-20  Nasruddin Hodja: Not only that, but after he left professional chess Fine took up psychology, not medicine. Many people still call Ph.D.'s "doctor", but the Ph.D. pandemic has become so ubiquitous that many people prefer to use "doctor" only for M.D.'s.
May-09-20  catlover: Good game.

I chuckled at the pun. I thought perhaps that "Paging Dr. Fine" was an allusion to a line in a Three Stooges episode: https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...

May-09-20  Atking: No reason to stop the counter attack after the strong 22...d5! 23...a3 was surely better.
May-09-20  goodevans: <Nasruddin Hodja: [...] Many people still call Ph.D.'s "doctor"...> Well knock me down with a feather. I always thought that that was what the "D" stood for.
May-09-20
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  Breunor: I was sure the pun is a three stooges reference as cat lover said, any stooge fan would recognize it immediately!
May-09-20
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  Phony Benoni: Yes, it was a Three Stooges reference. But had I remembered the line was actually "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard", I wouldn't have used it. Should always check these little details.

By the way, the film was titled "Men in Black", and featured Moe inventing social distancing with his admonition, "Spread out!"

May-11-20  IamALLmonsters: " Nasruddin Hodja:Many people still call Ph.D.'s "doctor", but the Ph.D. pandemic has become so ubiquitous that many people prefer to use "doctor" only for M.D.'s."

That is to my ear a strange comment for two reasons. 1) in my home country (Canada) there are about 200k Ph.D.s and about 100 K M.D.s so while the Ph.D.s are more common they are not in a general sense common. 2) Doctor was first used for Ph.D.s not M.D.s

Sep-20-20
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  scutigera: “Doctor” originally meant “teacher”, as in “docent” and “indoctrinate”, and was first used as a title for Catholic theologians whose writings were considered both canonical and important and is still used thus, cf. “Doctor of the Church”; it first appears in English in 1387, and is not unambiguously attested in any other sense until considerably later, depending on your threshold of ambiguity. The title is generally reserved for doctors of medicine by people like me, who worry about someone believing mistakenly that there is potential medical assistance near when they might need it. Source: Oxford English Dictionary, compact edition, 1971.

Yeah, yeah, pedantic; sometimes I get a bee in my bonnet that can only escape onto the Internet.

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