| Jun-08-20 | | SeanAzarin: Bear Hug |
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| Jun-15-20 | | jith1207: Before submitting a pun, it's good to check if the pun has been used already, in one form or another. <Phony Benoni> has been doing hard work every day, adding all the GOTD games and titles to his pun index game collection (arranged carefully in alphabetical order, also year and date wise): Game Collection: Game of the Day & Puzzle of the Day Collections <Phony Benoni> adds every single day within the first half hour of every new day, often within minutes, when the <CG> website refreshes each midnight. |
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| Jun-15-20 | | Brenin: The natural-looking 29 ... Bxe5 seems to have been Black's downfall, leaving White with a good endgame thanks to his better pawns. Instead, interposing 29 ... h5 would have given Black an advantage, since after 30 Nxf7 hxg4 the N on f7 is lost. |
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Jun-15-20
 | | OhioChessFan: I usually post my pun submission on the game page so that it can be searched out that way also. Likewise I usually do a search of the term myself. |
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| Jun-15-20 | | goodevans: Is black suffocated by white completely enveloping his position? Well, no. I fail to see the relevance of the pun to today's game. |
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| Jun-15-20 | | Jambow: I hope you Werner Hug might have been better... |
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| Jun-15-20 | | Ironmanth: Love this game! Thanks, chessgames. Y'all stay safe out there in "chess world"! |
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| Jun-15-20 | | Brenin: Is "Fallen Angel" any better? |
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Jun-15-20
 | | MissScarlett: It's not too late to scrap today's effort and use one of mine. |
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| Jun-15-20 | | jith1207: <Is "Fallen Angel" any better?> Sure! That works. |
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Jun-15-20
| | OhioChessFan: It's a serviceable pun. |
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| Jun-15-20 | | jith1207: Twice? |
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Jun-15-20
 | | Phony Benoni: <jith1207> I don't object to using a pun twice if it's appropriate. It would not be right if a terrific "Pun of the Year" candidate had to be scrapped because it had to used before. That being said, I would hope the second use would be better than the first. This one is better, , but not by much. We've had several instances of three[rsyd, such as <Caro Can't>. Trying to use that one again for any game would not be clever, but just lazy. |
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| Jun-15-20 | | goodevans: <Phony Benoni: [...] I would hope the second use would be better than the first. This one is better, , but not by much.> Your instruments of measure must be more sensitive than mine. To me everything close to zero just looks like zero. I envy your ability to distinguish such minutiae. ;o) |
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| Jun-15-20 | | jith1207: Agreed, it's okay if the pun or the game is really awesome that you don't mind. There wouldn't be a debate in that case, so whenever there's a debate you know something wasn't right. But, based on the comments and general view of the game, it's sad there's not a perfect example found of Bear Hug in all of Hug's games, after two attempts. |
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| Jun-15-20 | | faulty: I especially like the fact that Hug is from Switzerland, and its Capital city Bern means "bear" in its original form. i wonder if the author of the pun meant it or that is accidental |
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