Nasruddin Hodja has kibitzed 316 times to chessgames   [less...]

Feb-26-25 Music vs NN, 1803   Nasruddin Hodja: Only if he wanted to make the music last... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjI...      Jan-03-25 D Sisior vs Dorji Pema Yangsel, 2022   Nasruddin Hodja: Destiny my ass. Black's 5th and 6th moves were questionable, her 9th was a game-losing blunder, and her 13th allowed checkmate. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in Destiny but in ourselves, that we get crushed.      Nov-05-24 Caruana vs G Oparin, 2024   Nasruddin Hodja: <perfidious> The fault isn't Kramnik's; he simply confirmed that 3. ... Nf6 is the soundest if most drawish defense against the Spanish. At the highest level, players with the white pieces have become too risk averse to follow up 1. e4 properly with one of: (a) give up      Aug-29-24 B Harper vs R Zuk, 1971   Nasruddin Hodja: Meh. Since I'm a fan of the classics rather than Halloween references or lame puns (yes, I've submitted my share of the latter), I would go with renaming this game "Antony and Cleopatra". The final position fits.      Aug-09-24 Tartakower vs H Atkins, 1922    Nasruddin Hodja: Of course 8. Bxc6 would have given white a slightly better position, which is why black should have played 7. ... Bd7; 7. ... Bd6 was his only inaccurate move in the game I think. But the real killer was 14. Qa4? He was already going to lose one tempo retreating the Bd5; the      Jul-03-24 Deep Thought vs D Levy, 1989   Nasruddin Hodja: "Forty-two." ;-)      Apr-24-24 J Christiansen vs A O Johansen, 2013   Nasruddin Hodja: Toccatta and Fugue in d6?? minor. :-(      Mar-07-24 Nepomniachtchi vs Carlsen, 2020    Nasruddin Hodja: <FSR> Oops. I was including "Ian" in the name. My bad. Btw, what kind of a grown Russian man uses "Ian" as a first name? Did they forget to add the "v" between the "I" and the "a" in his birth certificate?      Feb-19-24 Paulsen / Goring / Metger vs Anderssen / Zukertort / Schmid, 1877    Nasruddin Hodja: <Miss Scarlett> They may not have been geniuses, but Paulsen, Goring, and Metger were definitely not nincompoops; each made important contributions to opening theory. Or is there something else in the game title that I'm missing? <goodevans> There's a direct ...      Sep-25-23 A Manea vs C Nanu, 2001    Nasruddin Hodja: Er, I may be missing something, but after 39. ... h3, white seems to stop the h pawn after 40. g4 followed by : (a) 40. ... hxg2 41. Bxg2, (b) 40. ... Rxf3 41. gxf3 h2 42. Ng3, or (c) 40. ... h2 41. Ng3. In each of the three cases, black would then have to play ... 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