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Stuart Conquest vs Viktor Korchnoi
"Boogie With Stu" (game of the day Oct-02-2025)
Lugano Open (1986), Lugano SUI, Mar-??
Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange. Modern Exchange Variation (D85)  ·  0-1

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Apr-05-09  charlie2000: Go Victor!
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Oct-02-25
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  HeMateMe: Holy Zeppelin Batman!
Oct-02-25
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  offramp: I know that "Boogie With Stu" is a Led Zeppelin song that is based on a short ditty by one of the guys that died in the aeroplane crash along with the <Big Bopper> and <Buddy Holly>.

So that Led Zeppelin song is very evocative, in a sad way.

Oct-02-25
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  HeMateMe: It's s a reference to Ian Stewart, rolling Stones road manager, who played some boogie woogie style piano. They have a song recorded with Stewart.
Oct-02-25
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  Williebob: Both <offramp> and <HeMateMe> are correct. It's a Led Zeppelin song featuring Ian "Stu" Stewart on piano, with lyrics lifted from Ritchie Valens' "Ooh My Head", which itself was appropriated from Little Richard's "Ooh My Soul".

I agree with <offramp> that the song harkens to a bygone era.

Ian Stewart was a legend in the London blues scene which spawned many famous rock bands from the 1960s. He was a little older than most of the new groups, and was some kind of blues purist. There's a great bit about Stu from the memoir "Life" by The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards: Whenever Ian was jamming with the young upstarts and they threw a minor chord into a song's progression, "he would lift his hands off the keys in protest."

Great game, too! Somehow I think 22.Ba6 was a costly mistake, but already by then it appears White's position had several problems.
Oct-03-25
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  HeMateMe: At Ian Stewart's funeral Charlie Watts looked at the other fellows and said "Who's going to tell us off now?"

Stu would refer to the rolling Stones as "My little shi*t storm." If they strayed too far from the blues Stewart would tell them so.

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