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Isaak Birbrager vs Alexey Suetin
"Wicked Game" (game of the day May-02-2025)
URS-ch sf Minsk (1964), Minsk URS
Modern Defense: Queen Pawn Fianchetto (A40)  ·  0-1

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Dec-14-17  Delboy: A beautiful queen sacrifice, and a magnificent example of the power of a far advanced pawn. The hero stood firm on d2 for 13 moves, with white gradually forced to return his massive material advantage to stop its promotion
Nov-14-22
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  GrahamClayton: Fantastic play by Suetin - many players would have played 27...de1Q, but he realises that the pawn is more important on d2, supporting his pieces and tieing up Birbrager's pieces.
May-02-25
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  offramp: A candle has a wick. It is therefore wicked. Games are worth the candle.
May-02-25  Teyss: What a game! Love how Black sacs the Queen just to push the Pawn by one square... and then leaves it there until the very end. "The threat is stronger than the execution, especially if it's coming from the joint winner of the tournament."

For memo this was the semi-final of the USSR championship where Peterson and Suetin finished joint first: https://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/... But only 16th and 13th respectively in the final, won by Korchnoi, since the other semi was of a higher level (Bronstein, Tal, etc.). What a country this used to be.

No clue about the pun, I thought it was referring to a cricket wicket but there are no tripled Pawns. Maybe a famous cricket player is a homonym of one of players here, or it's a quote. Else we'll stick to <offramp>'s explanation which is as good as any.

May-02-25
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  offramp: Candles are made of tallow. Tallow has <Suet in>.
May-02-25
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  GrahamClayton: Source of the pun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-...
May-02-25
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  offramp: <GrahamClayton: Source of the pun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-...

No, I don't think you are right.

I am certain about the <SUET - IN - TALLOW - CANDLE - WICKED - GAME>.

I explained it all earlier, to the hard of understanding people.

May-02-25  areknames: Wicked Game indeed and a very good pun, <GC>! Funny how at move 20 White's heavy artillery is awkwardly amassed in the Q side corner.
May-02-25
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  MissScarlett: <Crisis Isaak: Wicked Game> would have fleshed it out.

Stasch Mlotkowski (kibitz #16) showed that chess and Danish supermodels don't mix.

May-02-25  areknames: LOL, good one <Scazz>!
May-02-25
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  offramp: <MissScarlett: <Crisis Isaak: Wicked Game> would have fleshed it out.>

I am now definitely right about the <SUET IN> his <CANDLES>.

I played the Chris Isaac song on my 8-track and it has no relevance to this song.

Whereas a <<CANDLE is WICKED and TALLOW and has SUET IN>>, that makes totally sense.

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