| Sep-29-19 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Slow Down, You Crazy Child -- the first line of the song "Vienna Waits For You". |
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| Sep-13-20 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: To be clear, this is a short speed game featuring very young players, playing the Vienna Opening. And "Vienna" is a song from Billy Joel's most important album, that he once claimed was one his two favorites among all the songs he'd written. |
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| Sep-14-20 | | Brenin: Looking only at the final position, I couldn't see why Black had resigned, until I noticed the B on a2 preventing Rg8. If only his rooks had been connected. |
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| Sep-14-20 | | TheBish: <Cheapo by the Dozen: To be clear, this is a short speed game...> How did you come to the conclusion that it's a speed game? From the game info, it's from the Under 12 World Championship. So probably standard slow FIDE control, 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. Or whatever it was in 1994! This section was won by Peter Svidler according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World... Regarding the game title (I will abstain from calling most of these "puns", because few actually are): This one is quite a stretch! I would guess that almost nobody got the song reference! Interestingly, Billy Joel's father is from Vienna. "Billy's parents got divorced when he was young, and his father, Howard Joel, returned to his homeland of Vienna where he got married and started a new family. When Billy appeared on The Howard Stern show in 2010, Joel revealed that he doesn't always know what a song is about when he writes it, and he came to realize that we was dealing with his feelings about his father in this song." https://www.songfacts.com/facts/bil... |
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Sep-14-20
 | | piltdown man: I got it. But I am old. |
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| Sep-14-20 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Ack. My bad on fantasizing a blitz aspect. |
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| Sep-14-20 | | Ratt Boy: <TheBish> Interesting info. Butt I'll note that his father's "homeland" would've been Austria; Vienna was his hometown. |
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| Sep-14-20 | | W Westerlund: I think that Black has to take the N on c3 much earlier. By the time he finally did he was done. For example 6. ... Bxc3, 7. ... d5. |
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Sep-14-20
 | | AylerKupp: <Cheapo by the Dozen> You might have been fantasizing about the blitz aspect, but your advice was probably spot on. Jankovic was probably playing too quickly (and greedily!) and didn't see that the mate on g7 could not be stopped. But he was probably lost long before that, it's hard to see how White's straightforward k-side attack can be stopped after 12.f5. |
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Sep-14-20
 | | playground player: Ging-ganguly! as the old song goes. |
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| Sep-14-20 | | ajile: I feel cheated. Black should play on to the bitter end. No entertainment value here. : / |
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| Sep-14-20 | | petemccabe: With U12 players, nothing is too surprising. But it seemed to me almost as if Black had to leave the game for a moment after move 17, and a much lesser player filled in for 18-20, at which point the original player returned and realized it was hopeless. |
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| Sep-14-20 | | schnarre: ...An apt choice of song for this! |
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| Sep-14-20 | | RandomVisitor: <W Westerlund><I think that Black has to take the N on c3 much earlier. By the time he finally did he was done. For example 6. ... Bxc3, 7. ... d5.>Agreed, but perhaps you mean at move 5, at move 6 white just recaptures with the Ne2:
click for larger viewStockfish_20090822_x64_modern:
NNUE evaluation using nn-308d71810dff.nnue enabled <48/73 15:31 0.00 5...Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 d5 7.exd5 Nxd5> 8.Ne2 Be6 9.Bb5 Nde7 10.0-0 a6 11.Bxc6+ Nxc6 12.Rb1 b6 13.f4 Qd7 14.fxe5 Nxe5 |
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