| Dec-09-21 | | Messiah: Terrible pun. |
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Dec-09-21
 | | Phony Benoni: Poor Duke. Thought he had found a ringer. |
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Dec-09-21
 | | OhioChessFan: Very clever pun. I'd guess it is a bit obscure to most people, like me, as I'd never heard of it. https://victorianweb.org/authors/he... |
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| Dec-09-21 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Very good name pun. Downgraded from "terrific" because of pronunciation. Wait. I'm upgrading it back to "terrific" because the subject of the poem was named "Casablanca". Fun game too. |
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| Dec-09-21 | | Teyss: <OhioChessFan> A BIT obscure? Well anything goes after safety pin number 15.
The finish is of course 24.Qxc6+ Rd7 25.Qc8+ Rd8 26.d7# 23...Rd8 lost fast but Black couldn't avoid disaster anyhow. |
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| Dec-09-21 | | The Kings Domain: Another oldie but goodie. Fine attacking play by Dubois in this all-out game. |
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| Dec-09-21 | | Nosnibor: A very well thought out pun and well researched with regard to the original Victorian story. |
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Dec-09-21
| | OhioChessFan: <<Teyss: OhioChessFan> A BIT obscure? > I'm trying to be nice commenting on puns. But yes, very obscure, to the point I doubt 10% of the kibitzers understood it. |
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Dec-09-21
 | | MissScarlett: I doubt 10% of the commentariat understand Hamlet. The point is to learn to understand it and then to appreciate. Or not, as the case may be. |
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Dec-09-21
 | | fredthebear: "Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me, it is a prison." -- Hamlet. |
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Dec-09-21
| | MissScarlett: <Casabianca> is a poem more honoured in the breach than in the observance: https://jeremynicholas.com/2012/08/... |
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| Dec-09-21 | | Cibator: Hee. For once, I understood both the pun itself and the secondary allusion (to Casabianca, pointed out by <Cheapo>). Enjoyed seeing all the parodies too - thanks <MissScarlett>. (The "picking his nose" one maybe should be titled "Casabiancachief"?) |
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Dec-09-21
 | | Honza Cervenka: 21...Ke8 was a grave mistake. 21...Kd7 would have been correct. 22.Qc7+? gives nothing after 22...Ke6, and so 22.Qf5+ Kd8 23.Qa5+ Kd7 etc. with draw is the best choice here. |
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Dec-09-21
| | OhioChessFan: <I doubt 10% of the commentariat understand Hamlet. The point is to learn to understand it and then to appreciate. Or not, as the case may be.> Hmmmmm.
<The game I'm fine with; the pun is dreck. I don't know it what means, I don't want to know what it means.> <Ideally a pun is recognizable, without using Google, to more than 1% of the audience.> <It's still a horrible game, but my criticism of the pun was unwarranted. My apologies to <OCF>.> <He should have said 2%.> Capablanca vs H E Chambers, 1912 (kibitz #46) |
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Dec-09-21
| | Honza Cervenka: And of course, 21...Kd7 22.Qf5+ Kxd6? loses for 23.Bxf4+. |
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| Dec-10-21 | | areknames: <<Casabianca> is a poem more honoured in the breach than in the observance> There's an absolutely wonderful reference to this poem in a chaotic scene towards the end of 'A Confederacy of Dunces': "There Ignatius stood like the boy on the burning deck". As one reads further, one is still laughing hysterically but also moved to tears at the same time. The (perhaps) 10% who are aware of this novel should check that excerpt out. Not a bad job on the pun, <Scazz>. |
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Dec-10-21
 | | Jimmy720: One of the best puns on this site |
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| Dec-10-21 | | Cibator: BTW, did anyone else pick up on the nod to Hamlet in <MissScarlett>'s second comment, above? |
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Dec-10-21
 | | keypusher: <Cibator: BTW, did anyone else pick up on the nod to Hamlet in <MissScarlett>'s second comment, above?> A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 20.Qe5
