| Jul-16-13 | | vonKrolock: After 25.♗xg7 
click for larger view25...♕xf2 !! A very nice rejoinder. Bachmann played all the game in a powerfull and inspired mood <Karl-Heinz> or <Karlheinz> <?!> |
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| Jul-16-13 | | Shams: What about 26.Be5 as a defense? |
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Jul-16-13
 | | offramp: A game remembered for one Tunguska move. Great chess! |
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| Jul-16-13 | | vonKrolock: Only defense !? - well t'was a <nice rejoinder> anyway, or? ... <<<Tunguska move>>> ??! I said: <all the game> - Guess white was already short of time |
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| Jul-17-13 | | vonKrolock: <"What about 26.Be5 as a defense?"> 26.♗e5 ♕b2!! 
click for larger view (Queen to 'g3' would work as well, but ♕f2-b2 is more aestetically pleasant...) Now it seems for me that white have nothing better than 27.♖xf3 ♕xe5 28.♖xd3, and after 28...♘g3# 29.♔g1 ♕xc5# etc black is winning, with a solid ♙ 'e6' plus healthy position ... What say the engines ?! |
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| Jul-17-13 | | Nerwal: Engines do recommend 26... ♕xc5, because it wins a pawn over 26... ♕g3 or 26... ♕b2. |
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| Dec-30-13 | | jerseybob: Browne gets distracted on the q-side while ignoring the k-side and center. Moves 8-10 are a bad plan. Black's star move is 10..c5!, temporarily sacking a pawn, which black recovers with 15..Ne5. I think better for white was 8.Nd2 and if Be2 9.Ne2, keeping a tight grip on the center with c3 in reserve if need be. It's very tough to get an edge against this Gurgenidze line, as Fischer discovered against Petrosian 2 years later, and taking your eye off the ball can be fatal. |
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| Jan-14-14 | | whiteshark: You can find this game annotated by the winner and Reinhard Cherubim here: http://www.sfk-schach.de/index.php/... (in German) |
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Apr-21-24
 | | FSR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosp... |
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Apr-21-24
 | | Teyss: Great game. The pun, since it's <offramp>'s, has to be funny. |
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Apr-21-24
 | | HeMateMe: once again the daily pun has gone waaay over my head. |
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| Apr-21-24 | | goodevans: My wife and I had lunch at the <Prospect of Whitby> a few months ago during a sunny winter's walk. It's an excellent old pub and I'd happily go back some time. It was a really nice walk which I'd heartily recommend to anyone in or visiting the area. We parked up by 'The Leaning Tower of Rotherhithe' (https://thelondonphile.com/2012/05/...) and walked along the South bank of the Thames past St Saviours Dock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Sa...) and over Tower Bridge to St Katharine Docks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ka...) and then through what's left of the old London Docks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londo...) to Shadwell Basin which is right by the pub. After lunch we walked back along the North bank of the Thames, back over Tower Bridge and then finished with a pint in The Angel, Bermondsey (https://londonist.com/pubs/pubs/the...), another lovely historic London riverside pub. Total distance 5 miles, mostly flat. |
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Apr-21-24
| | HeMateMe: Were the old London docks replaced by the canary wharf project? I'm not a native, just curious. |
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| Apr-21-24 | | goodevans: <HMM> The towers of Canary Wharf, etc., on the Isle of Dogs are built on the West India Docks, a little to the East of the London Docks which are smaller and older. London has many old historic docks and exploring them has been a bit of a project of mine. I've done most of them. From West to East on the North side of the river I've done St Katherine Docks, the London Docks, Limehouse Dock, West India Docks (including South Dock and Millwall Dock), East India Docks and the Royal Docks. On the South side the only substantial complex is Surrey Docks although there's also St Saviours Dock and Woolwich Dock. If anyone knows of any that I've missed then I'd be happy to add them to my project. |
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Apr-21-24
| | HeMateMe: where is the island that the Who and Small Faces played on? |
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Apr-21-24
 | | Sally Simpson: That will be on the island of Britain. (I saw the Small Faces live.) |
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Apr-21-24
| | offramp: <HeMateMe: where is the island that the Who and Small Faces played on?> I have always associated The Who♂️🎯 with Eel Pie Island, in the Thames. It is strange to see the great Walter Browne playing in windswept Whitby. He must have known about the town's connections with <Dracula>. I am really happy that some people got the pun.
That London pub has a great history, going back to c. 1520. Imagine being a patron a few hundred years ago - actually watching hangings! What a great talking-point! |
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Apr-21-24
 | | perfidious: <Geoff>, did Small Faces make a day trip to a certain public place? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO9... |
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| Apr-21-24 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp:
I have always associated The Who♂️🎯 with Eel Pie Island, in the Thames.>I often don't know when you are joking and when you are being serious. |
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Apr-21-24
| | offramp: User: thegoodanarchist Eel pie island is in the Thames. It is a very small island. It is about the size of a pea.
There was a music venue there in the 1960s and <King Crimson> <<YEAHH!!>> and <The WHO> played there. |
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Apr-21-24
 | | OhioChessFan: Umm, I didn't get the pun, but google told me it's something in London. For the 3% of the membership who are British, I'm sure it is a fine pun. |
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| Apr-22-24 | | thegoodanarchist: <OhioChessFan: Umm, I didn't get the pun, but google told me it's something in London.> From what I gathered, that "something in London" is a pub! When I was growing up, cg didn't allow the names of pubs to become puns. However, <offramp> is our resident mystery commentator, so there you go! He has earned many indulgences, because Mmmm = Morrison or something like that. I'm not really sure. Anywhoo, everyone likes <offramp> and his jovial excentricities, so let's have no more disputes about this perfect and fabulous pun that exceeds all other puns combined. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 24...Nxf3
