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Jakov Geller vs Sergei Iskusnyh
"Jakov All Trades" (game of the day Dec-21-2013)
Polugaevsky Memorial (2012), Samara RUS, rd 3, Jul-07
French Defense: Classical. Burn Variation (C11)  ·  1-0

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Dec-21-13  PaulLovric: first
Dec-21-13  morfishine: When they invented the French, they never imagined stuff like this would happen
Dec-21-13  Travis Bickle: A great revenge against my most hated defense... The French!
Dec-21-13  kevin86: Isn't the French Defense an oxymoron? The french have no defense.

It is the opening in my favorite phony game:Alekhine's 5 queen game.

Dec-21-13
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  playground player: Open 1.b4 and you'll never have to play against the French again. Or the Sicilian.
Dec-21-13  john barleycorn: <playground player: Open 1.b4 and you'll never have to play against the French again. Or the Sicilian.>

Are you willing to substantiate that opinion with a small bet?

Dec-21-13
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  Domdaniel: <pp> I'll play 1...e6 against anything, including 1.b4. The result may not always be a French, I admit.
Dec-21-13
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  Domdaniel: This is a brutally efficient White win, after Black neglected his King safety -- he should have played ...Be7 and ...0-0 earlier.

The pun is good too, but might have been better suited to a game in which a lot of pieces were traded.

Dec-21-13  AllergicToTurtles: <Domdaniel: The pun is good too, but might have been better suited to a game in which a lot of pieces were traded.>

I submitted it for a different game that finished with lone kings on the board (J Geller vs E Valeanu, 2006, if I remember correctly), but the admins felt they knew better. Perhaps they wanted a more interesting game, though I didn't think that was a snoozefest either.

Dec-21-13  goodevans: <16.Rfe1> rather telegraphs White's intentions against e6, and Black really needed to do something about it pretty sharpish. Maybe putting something on d5 to block the diagonal would have been more effective than the rather useless <16...Rd8>.
Dec-21-13
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  Domdaniel: <AllergicToTurtles> I agree -- J Geller vs E Valeanu, 2006 is a much better game for this pun, and very far from a snoozefest.
Dec-21-13
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  fm avari viraf: The stubborn French looks vulnerable against the ferocious attack of mighty Geller. My pun is "Jakov the Jackal".
Dec-21-13
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  Domdaniel: Jakov Clubs?
Dec-21-13  Gregor Samsa Mendel: Day of the Jakov.
Dec-22-13  detritus: Black needs to apply cool water to his opening.
Dec-22-13  anjyplayer: Efim Geller ?
Dec-22-13
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  playground player: <john barleycorn> The last time I gambled, I bet on the Bullets to win at least ***one*** lousy game against the Bucks in the NBA championship--and they didn't.

I'm not saying it's impossible to play the French or the Sicilian against 1.b4. 1...e6, you see that often. But from White's point of view, it's just not the same as dealing with the French Defense in response to 1. e4 or d4. As for 1...c5, I've just never encountered it as a response to 1.b4.

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