| Mar-19-04 | | notyetagm: 26 ... Qb6+ 27 Kxd5 Qc6# - a beautiful pure epaulette checkmate |
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| May-17-05 | | notyetagm: Watson, in Play The French 3rd edition, references this game as 11 ♕h4 ♕a4! 12 ♖a2?! (12 ♘f3 ♘c6  ) e5!  , exploiting the <lateral pin> of the d4-pawn along the 4th rank.This theme of <exploiting the lateral pin of the White d4-pawn> is common in those Winawer lines where White has his queen undefended on the 4th rank and Black's queen is able to get on this rank for the pin <with tempo> by attacking the undefended White c2-pawn (here with 11 ... ♕a4!). Another example of <how dangerous it is to allow the enemy queen to pick up lines with tempo> by attacking something else at the same time. |
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| May-17-05 | | notyetagm: 22 ... ♗xc2!! 23 ♖xc2 <takes the base of the pawn chain>, removing two defenders of the b3-square, one by destruction (capture) and the other by deflection (re-capture), for the upcoming knight check/discovered attack 23 ... ♘b3+. |
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| May-17-05 | | mack: Nanu nanu etc. |
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Mar-15-10
 | | Domdaniel: Oh, Mindy! You read Runes!
This <example of <how dangerous it is to allow the enemy queen to pick up lines with tempo> by attacking something else at the same time> thing probably doesn't deserve a name. So we'll call it <The Nothing Works>. A variation - which doesn't work, and as far as I know has never been tried - is 9.Bf4, instead of the usual Queen move. Black's best reply is 9...Qa5 (but 9...e5 is also good, after 10.Qe2 0-0 11.Bxe5 Qa5 with a lot of initiative). The catch is that Black should *not* take the Rook on a1. For example, 9...Qa5 10.Qxg7 Qxc3+ 11.Ke2 Rf8 12.Nf3 Qxa1? is a mistake, allowing White to counterpunch with 13.Bd6 Rf7 14.Qh8+ Kd7 15.Ne5+ etc. But simply ignoring the Ra1 and playing 12...Nc6 or 12...Ne4 gives Black a winning position. If I was being pedantic I might note that the *pawn chain* - as construed in the French - is long gone by move 22. But it's five years later. Many of us are long gone. Not, oddly, any of the contributors here. |
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| Mar-15-10 | | mack: <Not, oddly, any of the contributors here.> - Vortex?
- Here you go Sir. CCL25 x4. And don't forget those four candles you bought earlier. I believe I happened upon this game (almost exactly) five years ago because I was still arsing about with the French at the time. I'd not yet figured how I wanted to play chess (meaning I'd yet to smell a Rat) and had only one tournament to my name from October 2004. Skip to March 2010 and I'm secure in my Suttlesiana but the gut reaction is still Mork & Mindy jokes. All I'd change now is an usw in place of that ghastly etc. |
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Mar-19-10
| | Domdaniel: <mack> I contend that the polycosmic being you now are - smeared across several universes like jokes, jam, and jism - only came into existence with the infusion of Suttlesiana and the smelling of Rats. Much like the legendary Fat Lady of Limbourg, whose sense of taste is such she can distinguish with a touch those subtleties a spectrograph might miss. As for usw, I nicked it from Pynchon and you pay homage to Walter Benjamin, aka Walter the Softy. Meanwhile in an alternative universe, Arthur Koestler got the strong gear and died of an opiate overdose: no rapings, no dodgy professorships of magic thinking (apart from the old lot, like theologians and literary theorists). Benjamin survives to become a cabbie in Barking. He played arcade games and lived to a great age, loved by the Barking bingo club members, whom he drove for free. - Are you a pole vaulter?
- Nein, nein, but I had that Lech Walesa bloke in the back of the cab once. - Union geezer? Great big tash?
- Yeah. It tickled me no end.
Und so weiter. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 22...Bxc2