I presume that the pun is in Italian in honor of the victor, Rossolimo, who in spite of his Ukrainian citizenship would appear to have been of Italian descent.

(In Latin, it would be "regina noctis"; in Spanish, I believe it would be "la reina de la noche," although I'd have to check.

That actually came up in one of my blitz games, maybe 18 years ago.

My opponent was a tough 2200 named Farouq, a carpenter from Afghanistan. I say "tough" because, apart from this game and a few like it, he seemed to have my number: He was very good at shuffling pieces while I looked for a way to break through; to give him due credit, he did so pretty successfully, and his results against me were better than, statistically, they should have been.

Anyway, in this particular game, I had a slight advantage, and I wasn't letting go of it. With the black pieces in a French Defense, I had built up irresistible pressure on the c-file, while Farouq tried to gin up counterplay against my king.

Reaching the critical move, I grabbed his pawn on c2 with my queen, supported by a rook. Now, on his last move, Farouq had played Ng5, threatening mate on h7, and as soon as I let go of my queen, he smiled, picked up his queen, and started moving her toward h7.

But halfway through the move, his expression changed, along with the direction of his move. He'd suddenly realized that from c2, my queen defended h7, and there was nothing better for him than to exchange queens on c2, leaving me a pawn ahead and with a porcine on the penultimate.

Of course, this was Farouq the Lion, and it took me another 30 moves to bring home the full point, but it was the only time I'd captured a pawn on the c-file to stop a mate on h7.