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Stavroula Tsolakidou vs Nataliya Buksa
24th European Teams Women (2023), Budva MNE, rd 5, Nov-15
Sicilian Defense: Lasker-Pelikan. Sveshnikov Variation (B33)  ·  1-0

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Nov-16-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54)

William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem

By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem

For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye

As the perfumed tincture of the roses,

Hand on such thorns and play as wantonly

When summer’s breath their masked buds discloses:

But, for their virtue only is their show,

They live unwoo’d and unrespected fade,

Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;

Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:

And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,

When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

/

Φοβερό παιχνίδι!!

Nov-16-23  fabelhaft: 28. Qg3 is quite a move.
Nov-16-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <fabelhaft>, indeed; at first glance, White looks quite lost despite her extra piece.
Nov-16-23
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  Sally Simpson: A wonderful piece of chess, and like Fred I am moved to the poetry.

There was a girl called Anastasia
Whose mating pattern was fanatasia
The Black King fled
The Black King Bled
and it was played by a girl not from Croatia.

Sally Simpson, November 2023.

(Stavroula is actually from Greece but that did not rime.)

Nov-16-23  fabelhaft: There once was a girl born in Greece
That left her own queen quite en prise
Her name was Stavroula
And no move is cooler
Than those Marshall style Qg3s
Nov-16-23
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  Sally Simpson: No bad fabelhaft but my one is better. En Prise does not rime with Greece so you cheated and being pedantic, Marshall's Qg3 was the Black Queen going to g3.

However yours is better than Billy Shakespeare's (who ever he was.) Fred the Bear has him rated between 1564 – 1616 so he was not what I would call a master player.

But all this distracts from the game and it's delightful wrap up, even a skilled and talented poet like me can not do it full justice.

Nov-16-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: Shakespeare was the original Slick Willie, a true romantic, thorns and wanton play. Surely, he would approve of your insertion of Croatia, just 500 miles upward from Greece, to do right by Anastasia.

These two beauties are contemporary lovers of the game, sweetly mimicking the ornamental world champ and his now odorous challenger, including mutual castling on the 20th ply: Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2019

The rosy zwischenzug 30.Ne7+ immediately after the lovely queen distillation is indeed virtuous!

Nov-23-23  Saniyat24: GothamChess reviewed this game- https://youtu.be/t5zL7NWwprg?si=nFd...
Nov-28-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  saffuna: <There once was a girl born in Greece That left her own queen quite en prise
Her name was Stavroula
And no move is cooler
Than those Marshall style Qg3s>

Excellent!

agadmator's look at the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtf...

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