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| Sep-21-10 | | atripodi: "The line I'm recommending, giving check on move 4, has the support of much of the world's elite...Kramnik has played it a few times and...it has been played by...Topalov, Shirov, Adams...Spasky...and Korchnoi. The idea is to play the solid closed defense, but without allowing White the option of the double fianchetto." -Larry Kaufman The Chess Advantage in Black and White.
Even though he lost this game, we cannot assume Kramnik's understanding of the Catalan ended at move four and he played a ridiculous retreat. The idea is simply that white's dark-squared bishop is worse place at d2 than c1 since it disallows a fianchetto and takes d2 away from the knight. |
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| Sep-21-10 | | MaxxLange: Kaufman's book is getting old....make sure to check the sharp lines against recent games |
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| Sep-21-10 | | atripodi: <MaxxLange> The book is definitely getting old, unfortunately for me. I wasn't making a case for it being the refutation of the Catalan or anything, just letting a better player than myself explain the strategic basis of the apparently tempo-losing 4...Be7. |
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| Sep-21-10 | | ycbaywtb: why do so many Catalans end up with a pass pawn for White? |
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| Oct-14-12 | | Everett: <Ulhumbrus: <Kinghunt: < Ulhumbrus: 4...Be7 loses a tempo for development.> Annotating by result. 4...Be7 is the main move in that position and a very well accepted part of Catalan theory.> No, annotating by the observation that 4...Be7 does move the bishop a second time, and so loses a tempo for development.> You might have noticed that d2 is not the ideal square for the bishop, so White loses a tempo as well. Great game, btw. |
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Oct-14-12
 | | perfidious: The manoeuvre with ....Bb4+ and ....Be7 is also seen in the Classical Dutch and the 4.g3 Queen's Indian. <Ulhumbrus> and his dogmatism from the age of Tarrasch come a cropper yet again. |
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| Oct-14-12 | | rapidcitychess: <perfidious>
Chernev is the first person that comes to my mind. |
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| Aug-23-13 | | Conrad93: Makes me wonder what would happen if instead black played 16...gxf4 and sacrificed the rook... What then? I don't see any wild attacks. |
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| Aug-23-13 | | Cyphelium: <Conrad93> On 16.- -gxf4, I guess white just plays 17. ♗xa8 ♕xa8 18. ♖xd7. Then he is an exchange up and may continue with ♘c3-e4 etc. So agreed, no wild attack, but still losing for black. |
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| Aug-23-13 | | Conrad93: Actually, I put your line into the silicon monster, and it agrees that white is much better, but not losing. It's actually somewhat equal! |
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| Mar-22-14 | | Gilmoy: As to the GotD pun: how does this game
"phonetically <or chessically> imitate, resemble or suggest the source of the sound <stem game?> that it describes"? Otherwise, it's a low tier of pun that isn't specific to this game, and could equally apply to any of Pono's other games.So if we venture: <15.biff! gee 16.bdoom!! eek 17.nyaaaa quail 18.nice>, then smirking amidst shocked silence. To end with ... <35.roooooooosh> like rocket, da? <uf-da!! ow> |
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Mar-22-14
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Today's title is a pun on "Onomatopoeia" (n.): 1. a word whose pronunciation is its meaning, as in "splat," "bam," or "meow;" 2. the title of a bizarre love song by Todd Rundgren from the album "Hermit of Mink Hollow." |
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Mar-22-14
 | | offramp: "Oh Vladdy! I'm not your Daddy!" |
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| Mar-22-14 | | morfishine: Adding or subtracting a letter (or letters) from a word so it rhymes with another word, does not, as a stand alone application, necessarily constitute a pun, unless there is the requisite reference, which this one lacks. pathetic |
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| Mar-22-14 | | goodevans: We've had some poor puns for GOTD recently but this one's particularly dire. I embrace the poor pun!
The poor pun normally means a good game, as is the case today. Sadly, Thursday's GOTD was a double disappointment that broke the usual rule. |
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| Mar-22-14 | | backrank: One of the great games of the 21st century.
16 Bxd5!! is a stunning move, and 19 e6! is a worthy follow-up. |
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Mar-22-14
| | perfidious: <Kinghunt: < Ulhumbrus: 4...Be7 loses a tempo for development.> Annotating by result. 4...Be7 is the main move in that position and a very well accepted part of Catalan theory.> Annotating by stupidity is more the idea which springs to mind. Had Black exchanged at d2, <u> would have criticised him for helping White's development, which makes the manoeuvre with ....Bb4 a win-win for the king of dogma. |
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| Mar-22-14 | | thegoodanarchist: <morfishine: Adding or subtracting a letter (or letters) from a word so it rhymes with another word, does not, as a stand alone application, necessarily constitute a pun, unless there is the requisite reference, which this one lacks. pathetic> When the pun is good, you denigrate the level of play <Thorbing Headache>. When the level of play is good, you denigrate the pun <this game>. <You> try coming up with 365 great games AND with great puns every year. It's not so easy. |
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| Mar-22-14 | | morfishine: <thegoodanarchist> Thanks, I always enjoy your posts! I always try to augment criticism with solutions. For example, I sent to <CG> the suggestion that they create a new segment for a "Pun Game" and leave the segment for a "Game of the Day" as it should be: a truly interesting game that is thrilling for both sides. True, its hard to combine a great pun with a great game; <FSR> has made this point and I am in complete agreement. At the very least, lets have the pun reference back the to the specific chess game, or at least to chess in general. Too often, the pun references in the opposite direction, focusing on some song, sitcom, composition, event or something obscure not even related to chess at all; or at the worst, just some rhyme, like today It is hard, but not insoluble, like chess in general :) ***** |
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Mar-22-14
 | | Domdaniel: <An Englishman> -- < Today's title is a pun on "Onomatopoeia" (n.): 1. a word whose pronunciation is its meaning, as in "splat," "bam," or "meow;" 2. the title of a bizarre love song by Todd Rundgren from the album "Hermit of Mink Hollow."> There's also a John Prine song: "Onomatopeia, I don't want to hear ya, speaking in a foreign tongue..." <Morf> I also suggested to CG that they should have both a daily pun game and a daily quality game. Don't think it'll happen, though. |
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Mar-22-14
| | Domdaniel: <perf> -- <Annotating by stupidity is more the idea which springs to mind.>
Ouch. I know what you mean, but let's be charitable. Call it <Annotating by Inertia> or <the argument from antiquity>...? |
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Mar-22-14
| | perfidious: <Dom> Maybe you're right; just tire of seeing the same old pablum, which merely misleads those who wish to learn. |
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| Mar-22-14 | | Nicocobas: <all> I assume that today's pun is a play on the word "onomatopoeia," which means "the creation of words that imitate natural sounds." If that is the case, how does the pun relate to this game? |
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| Mar-22-14 | | Nicocobas: Please ignore my previous post. I didn't see the commentaries that others had already posted on the topic. |
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| Mar-23-14 | | morfishine: <Domdaniel> If <CG> won't listen to someone of your stature, that pretty much settles that |
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