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| Oct-15-22 | | Rudolf Zipperer: I do believe that Mamedyarov truely lives chess. This game is the perfect example. Though he will most likely never become World Champion it doesn't really matter. Games such as this one matter. Perfect Beauty! |
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| Oct-17-22 | | 0ZeR0: Sometimes Mamedyarov seems to have such brilliant insight into attacking conceptions and tactical possibilities that we get games like this which resemble a work of art. <Rudolf Zipperer: I do believe that Mamedyarov truely lives chess. This game is the perfect example. Though he will most likely never become World Champion it doesn't really matter.Games such as this one matter. Perfect Beauty!> Well said! |
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| Oct-22-22 | | Lovuschka: Absolutely amazing! This will go into the chess history books among other great games! |
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Oct-22-22
 | | fredthebear: "Game of the day!"
The Jobava London System is a hot opening once again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXp... Is it because everyone is now paying attention to Hans Niemann, Jobava London System specialist? |
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Oct-22-22
| | fredthebear: This video picks up after both sides have castled (19.0-0-0? less than best but playable): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e9... |
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Oct-22-22
| | fredthebear: DeJa'Vu Round 3: https://en.chessbase.com/post/londo... |
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Oct-22-22
| | fredthebear: agadmator says 2.Nc3 is the fourth most popular variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zk... |
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| Oct-28-24 | | Everett: So many great games going under the radar nowadays. Random search of Mamedyarov on YT brought me this one. We are living in a golden age of chess. |
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Jan-17-25
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: A sonnet has 16 lines, the Exchange sacrifice took place on move 16--this game title is even more brilliant that it appears at first sight. And if you feel a little mischievous, you can claim that White launched this combination solely to wind up with an extra pawn... |
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| Jan-17-25 | | alshatranji: Actually, a sonnet has 14 lines. The connection to this game is really not clear to me. |
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Jan-17-25
 | | OhioChessFan: Incredible game. I wasn't familiar with it. |
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Jan-17-25
| | OhioChessFan: A bit of Shak poetry. The pun is good enough for this beautiful game. |
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| Jan-17-25 | | Muttley101: A sonnet doesn't just have 14 lines, it is written in a form called iambic pentameter, which is 10 syllables per line. The rhyming pattern can vary, but Shakespeare used a/b a/b, c/d c/d, e/f e/f, g/h for the 14 lines. An argument for there being a connection to chess with 8 lines of unique rhymes seems a bit of a stretch, but what's more compelling is just how beautifully Shakespeare used this form to create sonnet after sonnet. So if you want a connection, apart from "Shakh", there's the flow of the game and it's beauty, leading to the final conclusion, which you could compare to the flow of Shakespeare's best sonnets. Worthy of an entry in Private Eye's "Pseuds Column", if that's still going :)) but nonetheless, this game is fabulous, and I love the title it's been given. Kudos to whoever came up with that one. <Everett: So many great games going under the radar nowadays. Random search of Mamedyarov on YT brought me this one.We are living in a golden age of chess.> You said it :) |
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Jan-17-25
 | | igiene: How can you not hate Stockfish if it criticizes the move 1...Nf6 against 1. d4? |
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Jan-17-25
 | | Teyss: I searched, searched and searched again,
Not a moment could I gather the pun.
All punster abilities are in vain*
To fathom this title weighing a ton*.
The rhyme ABAB CDCD
EFEF GG: see notation?
4.NB5 NA6, it's messy,
9.A3 C5, a true confusion.
Search no more, rest in peace, Chess amateur,
Just enjoy the poetry of the game.
Action and sacs until it is over
Elevates this piece to deserved fame.
What an energy! Look at the attack!
Against no less than Giri. Well done, Shak.
*Note from Bill: gimme a break on the rhymes. |
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Jan-17-25
 | | Honza Cervenka: 25. h8=Q+ Bxh8 26. Rxh8+ Ke7 27. Qh4+ Rf6 28. Ng6+ would have won the game too. |
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| Jan-17-25 | | FM David H. Levin: That this game ends with a knight move to effect interference reminded me of Kotov vs Szabo, 1953. |
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| Jan-17-25 | | Arlekhino: To AnEnglishman, alshatranji, Muttley101 and Teyss: Not all of Shakespeare´s 154 sonnets have 14 lines,
and not all of them have iambic pentameters totalizing ten syllables per line:
see numbers 99 (15 verses), 126 (12 verses, different rhyme scheme), and 145 (shorter verses). Anyway, I totally agree with Mutley101 on the connections of the pun: this game is (I know, the cliché, but so be it) poetry in motion, and poetry is so much more than rhymes and schemes and meters and numbers of lines, or straight connections (the same applying to chess: it is so much more than sheer rationality). Hence, forgive me for the detailed exceptions mentioned above. Taking advantage of some other poetic clichés: whatever works, and Shakespeare´s works do really work, just let it be, at least they work for me, and this really is a Shakriyar's cry for immortality! |
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Jan-17-25
 | | Sally Simpson: This Shakespearean discussion regarding a game between 'Two Noble Kinsmen ' is 'Much Ado About Nothing,' but 'All's Well That Ends Well.' |
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| Jan-17-25 | | BxChess: After 8...Qb6, the question was b2 or not b2. |
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Jan-18-25
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: Oops, true, 8 + 6 = 14, not 16. This is what happens when you turn 1,000,010 years old. |
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| Jan-18-25 | | stone free or die: Or use base-12. |
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| Jan-18-25 | | FM David H. Levin: Hi, <stone free or die>. I'd thought that <An Englishman> could have been using base-8. |
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Jan-18-25
| | OhioChessFan: Outstanding <Teyss> |
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| Jan-18-25 | | stone free or die: <FM David> right, another glitch on my part (that is, unless my base-12 was in base-6!). . |
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