Mar-01-13 | | soberknight: A cheap kingside attack. If only it were so simple in your games to launch pawns and see what happens. |
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Mar-01-13 | | rilkefan: Yet another wrong rook at move 14. |
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Mar-01-13
 | | perfidious: On seeing <rilkefan>'s kibitz, I was about to respond with a comment on Black's inability to cut the Gordian knot, and was a mite put out that someone else had got there, per the pun above! |
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Mar-01-13 | | morfishine: <rilkefan> Darn, I wanted to see one more wrong rook move: 28...Re8 |
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Mar-01-13 | | sevenseaman: A pleasing tactical shot, 28. Bb4 bolts the door on Black |
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Mar-01-13
 | | Tabanus: This game is from the Georgian championship in 1926. Black is Mark Filipovich Gordian. http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... (with pgn) |
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Mar-01-13 | | morfishine: <Tabanus> Thanks for the information on Mark Filipovich Gordian; I was thinking the TD was short one player and so asked 'Gordian', the janitor, to fill-in: TD: "Gordian, get in there and play Sorokin"
Gordian: "But he's a Grandmaster and I'm really not that good; My last rating was below 1200 and that was 46 years ago" TD: "Don't worry about it, just last 25-moves; nobody will know the difference" Afterward...
TD: "Hey Gordian, your ELO rating went up 683 points with that loss to Sorokin; Congratulations!" |
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Mar-01-13 | | Abdel Irada: Curious. I'd have thought Gordian was an Armenian name. |
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Mar-01-13 | | TheTamale: Good one, <morfishine>, thanks for starting my day with a laugh. The pun is also pretty funny, albeit obvious. |
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Mar-01-13 | | kevin86: Nick ties Gordian with a pin,not a knot! |
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Mar-01-13 | | morfishine: <TheTamale> My pleasure; I'm just glad he was a real person and not some 'NN' |
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Mar-01-13 | | lemaire90: What a violent game ! |
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Mar-01-13 | | Travis Bickle: A fine piece of surgery by white! |
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Oct-21-17
 | | FSR: Judging by the comments, it appears that CG.com has just recycled a pun from 4 1/2 years ago. |
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Oct-21-17
 | | offramp: <FSR: Judging by the comments, it appears that CG.com has just recycled a pun from 4 1/2 years ago.> ...Because it's a brilliant pun involving Gordian! Not. |
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Oct-21-17
 | | offramp: <Abdel Irada: Curious. I'd have thought Gordian was an Armenian name.> Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, that archetypal Armenian, was from Georgia. |
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Oct-21-17 | | thegoodanarchist: <offramp: <FSR: Judging by the comments, it appears that CG.com has just recycled a pun from 4 1/2 years ago.> ...Because it's a brilliant pun involving Gordian! Not.> I like it. |
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Oct-21-17 | | newzild: Excellent pun for a change, and the game isn't too bad either. |
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Oct-25-17 | | kevin86: The queen goes down! |
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