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| May-01-14 | | TheFocus: It just goes to show you, "A Bird in the hand is worth two in the Bruce." |
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| May-01-14 | | dark.horse: Nice pun <TheFocus>! I missed this, but not by much. I saw the Q sack and the N check on f7, but I was scrambling around for the best discovery. What my mind's eye missed was that the two pawns supporting g6 were now gone - I didn't "see" that Nxg6 was mate because of that. I need to work on my visualization. |
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| May-01-14 | | YouRang: Going back a move, after <21.Rxe8>:
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Here, black played the natural-looking response <21...Rxe8>. This, however leaves Pf7 unguarded, leading to the pretty white win after <22.Qxh7!>. Black could have kept things close with the "unnatural" 21...d1=Q!, and now the 22.Qxh7+ trick doesn't work because the new Qd1 is attacking the white bishop (which gives a critical check in the played line). It probably continues: 22.Rxf8+ Nxf8! (freeing Nf6 from defense of Ph7) 23.Rxd1 Nxd5 24.Rxd5 h6, and black still has a playable game.
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| May-01-14 | | HowDoesTheHorsieMove: Got it!
However, I had to keep going back to the puzzle many times over several hours to do so. Still, getting a Thursday feels good. |
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| May-02-14 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Ack. I missed a nice one. |
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| May-02-14 | | Moszkowski012273: Whites whole line was faulty in this game. If black had seen 20...Re5 White would of been on the losing end of this one. |
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| May-02-14 | | YouRang: <Moszkowski012273: Whites whole line was faulty in this game. If black had seen 20...Re5 White would of been on the losing end of this one.> True, lol. Or even 20...h6. |
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May-02-14
 | | agb2002: <patzer2: < agb2002: Actually 22.Nxf7+ Kg8 23.Ne5+ loses to the simple 23... Nxd5. The bishop is no longer tabu because there's no mate with Qxh7.> If only Black could have gotten a waiver from that annoying priority of check rule, he could have sacrificed his King and easily won this game. P.S.: of course this is not an original idea. At the early American history site http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/... is an anecdote about Benjamin Franklin making a similar observation about how eliminating the burden of protecting a King is a winning move...> Very interesting. Thank you! |
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| May-02-14 | | Sally Simpson: Hi dark.horse,
"I missed this, but not by much. I saw the Q sack and the N check on f7, but I was scrambling around for the best discovery." What you missed is very common, it's a tactical weakness in a lot of players. 
click for larger viewThe backward attacking Knight move.
24.Ne5+
click for larger viewThat is why you were "scrambling around for the best discovery." All backward attacking moves are harder to spot, especially if they are aimed at you. Now you have seen one working it should help in the future and you have added something to your game. This is what these puzzles are all about, (the good ones) picking up ideas and storing them. |
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May-03-14
 | | FSR: <TheFocus: He was the best of men; and he was was the worst of men.> Rowena Mary Bruce was not a man. She was the wife of the loser, Ronald MacKay Bruce. |
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Aug-27-14
 | | Stonehenge: Is your name not Bruce, then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_... |
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Aug-27-14
 | | MissScarlett: <Et tu, Bruce?> |
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| Feb-08-23 | | Honey Blend: <The 30-something female is deadlier than the 50-something male> I do hope I hid my tongue in cheek well enough. |
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| Feb-08-23 | | nalinw: I would have preferred the original quotation "the female of the species is more deadly than the male" - or just "the female of the species ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F...). |
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| Feb-08-23 | | SChesshevsky: Appears Rowena was quite the player. Also a fortunate meeting with her future husband. Also good enough to adopt a baby girl. But here, unfortunately for Mr. Bruce, just seems "Mama said knock you out!" |
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Feb-08-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Saw the names and immediately thought of the "Bruces" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. That's what happens when you've only 5 brain cells left. |
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Feb-08-23
| | FSR: Game Collection: Games between spouses. |
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| Feb-08-23 | | AlicesKnight: Was this game played at the philosophy department of an Australian University?(From a Monty Python fan....) |
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Feb-08-23
 | | Messiah: Terrible pun. |
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Feb-08-23
 | | Teyss: Who's your daddy now?! Lucky fellow married to a woman 16 years younger (thank God this site is anonymous).
Ahem.
22.? was a Thursday puzzle in 2014. At first I thought the combination could have started a move earlier but the regretted <YouRang> spotted 21...d1=Q!! instead of Rxe8? Impressive ending, good pun. A game where the players have to write their full first names on the scoresheet and not only their initials. <AlicesKnight> Yes in Woolamaloo (from another). |
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| Feb-08-23 | | goodevans: <nalinw: I would have preferred the original quotation "the female of the species is more deadly than the male"...> Me too, but at least we didn't get the grating "more deadlier" that we got in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1N... As for the game, the finish is very picturesque but, as <Moszkowski012273> pointed out in 2014, relies on the blunder 20...exd2?? when <20...Re5!> would have kept his substantial advantage. It's very complicated though. The most likely continuation would appear to be <21.Nxf7+ Rxf7 22.Bxf7 exd2 23.Rxe5 Nxe5 24.Bb3 Nd3>. 
click for larger viewBlack has threats against White's exposed K (e.g. 25...g5 26.Qxg5 Qg3+, etc.) and also threatens ...Nxb2 followed by a later ...Bxc3 to completely decimate White's Q-side. Don't think even the female of the species could have survived that. |
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Feb-08-23
 | | perfidious: <goodevans....Me too, but at least we didn't get the grating "more deadlier"....> '(M)ore deadlier' would never have occurred to me. <.... Black has threats against White's exposed K (e.g. 25...g5 26.Qxg5 Qg3+, etc.) and also threatens ...Nxb2 followed by a later ...Bxc3 to completely decimate White's Q-side. Don't think even the female of the species could have survived that.> Even Judit Polgar, the greatest female player to grace our game, would have been hard put to find any survival chances in this line. |
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| Feb-08-23 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Not only is this pun idea the subject of a Kipling poem (which surely either coined or helped popularize the phrase), but the poem has been set to music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAw...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVx... |
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| Feb-08-23 | | paavoh: <... wife of the loser> She could print that on her T shirt, eh? |
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Feb-08-23
 | | Gypsy: I think the basic sentiment of Kipling poem goes to to the saying of American settlers: <Don't get between a bear cub and its grizzly bear mom!> (Kipling got painful issues from a nasty boarding school arrangement. Probably reflected on the role of mothers a lot.) |
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