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John Cochrane vs Saumchurn Guttack
"The Brewing of Soma" (game of the day Jan-03-2023)
Casual game (1855), Calcutta IND
Modern Defense: Averbakh Variation (A42)  ·  1-0

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Aug-01-11  Garech: Found this doing research on the modern defence - a nice little gem!

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Oct-26-20
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  offramp: White had a long pawn/bishop chain:


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Jan-03-23  Honey Blend: I would think 37. ... ♗g7 38. ♖c8 ♕xc8 39. ♗xc8 ♗xa1 40. b6 ♗e5, ending in bishops of opposite colors where despite White having two passed pawns but both b8 and d8 can be defended by Black's KB, has better chances to fight for a draw.
Jan-03-23  coolthing76: Interesting how the Modern Defense is played in 1855, India ;).
Jan-03-23
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  Dionysius1: Fiachetto openings were quite common in Indian chess reported by the colonialists in the 19th Century. It was because traditional Indian chess had not allowed a pawn's 2-square advance, so there was more understanding of taking control of the centre on the diagonals initially.
Jan-03-23
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  Korora: Isn't soma that powerful drug from <Brave New World>?
Jan-03-23  goodevans: Strangely, it would appear that <both players> missed <36...Qf6>, Black on move 36 and White two moves earlier when he moved the wrong R to c1.

Surely Black would want to get rid of White's b-pawn (you know, the one that made it all the way to the 7th rank to put him in a bind). 36...Bxb4 isn't possible because of 37.Rc8 but getting the Q off the back rank and at the same time attacking all three of White's pieces would get around that nicely.

There were plenty of mistakes in this game but to my mind missing 36...Qf6 was the most obvious of all and both players seem to have done just that.

Jan-03-23  goodevans: <Korora: Isn't soma that powerful drug from <Brave New World>?>

It was indeed and before that it was a ritual drink in ancient India, which is probably what inspired Huxley to use that name for his dystopian drug.

Given the negative connotations of 'Soma' in Brave New World it's a little surprising that it's been chosen as the brand name for the modern musculoskeletal pain drug Carisoprodol.

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