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| Apr-29-06 | | Averageguy: I think that 21.Qxf8+ was better.
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| Apr-29-06 | | dutchboy13: great gam |
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| Jul-02-10 | | antharis: 21. Ba3! Qxa3 [21... Rxa8? 22. Bxc5 bxc5 23. Nac1  ] 22. Qxc6 |
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Jul-07-25
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Black's overconfidence makes sense--look at White's position after 15.Kf2!--but he should have lost. Nonetheless, an interesting glimpse into the state of chess in the 18th Century. |
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Jul-07-25
 | | OhioChessFan: No clue on the pun. Google was no help. |
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| Jul-07-25 | | stone free or die: Well, the first part must have a connection with the George Atwood of Atwood's machine. Not sure where the spaceship stuff comes from. |
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Jul-07-25
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: According to his bio, Atwood "created the Atwood machine for verifying experimentally the laws of acceleration of motion." The "Spaceships" thing? No clue. |
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| Jul-07-25 | | goodevans: It seems fitting that this particular game should have an incomprehensible pun. |
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| Jul-07-25 | | Agferna: Brilliant. The “Spaceships” are us using chess engines to uncover blunders and best moves 230 years later! |
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Jul-07-25
 | | Sally Simpson: The Pun; From the Atwood Bio:
"...he created the Atwood machine for verifying experimentally the laws of acceleration of motion." You then link that to a Heli-Cotter which is a space helicopter used by Steve Zodiac in Fireball XL5. |
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Jul-07-25
 | | jnpope: I'm not sure how a loosely related fact is a pun... https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/artic... |
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Jul-07-25
 | | MissScarlett: From George Cayley in the 1790s to Elon Musk in the 2020s, it's merely been a hop, skip and a jump. |
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| Jul-07-25 | | goodevans: Apart from the misguided 17...Qc7?, Black seems to have played pretty well here. The same can't be said for White. Of all his strange moves, 12.c3? is the most perplexing. I mean, why??? It's really been bothering me. After devoting an unreasonable amount of time pondering this, the most likely explanation I can think of is that he meant to move one of the adjacent pawns and simply missed. |
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| Jul-07-25 | | Gottschalk: Atwood's piece exchanges accelerated the initiative.
The meeting of heavy pieces in the seventh horizontal should be more powerful - according to Nimzowitt's concept - than forming the Train vertically. |
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Jul-07-25
 | | chrisowen: Man chew over xx |
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Jul-07-25
| | chrisowen: Cage x |
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| Jul-07-25 | | Agferna: Unfortunately we have not heard back from the pun author. I prefer to think of the “Spaceships” pun as our current space era, including chess engines, AI, moon missions, interplanetary planned missions, etc.
The heli-cotter FB xl5 is certainly a very cool airplane albeit unstable with rear propeller, assisted in its stability by a very good control system. In any event, to hype the xl5 into a spaceship is analogous to hyping a paper airplane into a supersonic jet.
GoodEvan’s post giving long thought to the puzzling c3 move. It’s anybody’s guess, but another theory is white realized the b5 knight has weak support and will soon be kicked, hence did not want to loose the c2 pawn.
Back to the pun, would be nice the hear from the author.
Cheers all. |
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Jul-07-25
 | | offramp: Yeh I know User: lonchaney.
Funny guy & master of disguise. Lotsa funny puns etc.I better give you some context -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_C...
Lon Chaney - the <Ur-Chaney> - lived 1883 to 1930. Lon Chaney had a son, also named Lon Chaney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_C....
He lived 1906 to 1973. He acted as Count Alucard🦇. Lon Chaney Jr had a son, also named Lon Chaney (stuck for a name, ay?):
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial...
...who lived 1928 to 1992.
That Lon Chaney had a nephew named <Ron> Chaney.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151615/
He was born in 1955. He is a master of disguise and chess and puns. That's where we are up to right now. |
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| Jul-07-25 | | Toxic Narcissist: Not sure about the pun, but this game sucks. |
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| Jul-07-25 | | areknames: <TN> It does suck big time and shouldn't even be in the db, let alone GOTD. At the end, the simple 25.Nxd3 wins easily for White. |
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Jul-07-25
| | MissScarlett: It would be easier if you left. |
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| Jul-08-25 | | stone free or die: This kind of spaceship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71A... |
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Jul-08-25
| | Sally Simpson: "It does suck big time and shouldn't even be in the db." This game, as does every game of chess belongs here (the clue is in the name of the site.) Archivists, chroniclers, archeologists and professors of ancient history - we have them beat. These people root about in dusty libraries or down on their knees digging up bits of bone and then guess at what happened or what it was.
We can go back to the 8th February 1795 and see exactly what happened. A glimpse into a bygone era without having to get up from our chair. One could buy a dozen books on the Battle of Waterloo but none will tell you in detail what Napoleon and Wellington were actually really thinking. But you can see what these two were up too 127 years ago. Now set up your board, turn off the lights and play over the game by candle light.
To complete the atmosphere buy a CD of horses clip clopping on a cobbled surface and play that in the background. |
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| Jul-08-25 | | FM David H. Levin: <But you can see what these two were up too 127 years ago.> Decomposing, I would imagine. |
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| Jul-09-25 | | stone free or die: Or recomposing, if they had been properly composted. |
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