Feb-05-21 M Subaric vs P Trifunovic, 1946 
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| Axel1940: Why does this opening fall under QG "Declined" when Black accepts pawn? |
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Jan-21-21 M Atabayev vs Wojtaszek, 2019
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| Axel1940: A good pun, but how about "At a boy!" ? |
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Dec-23-20 H Santa Cruz vs K Darga, 1964
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| Axel1940: "I saw Darga crushing Santa Cruz" is clearly a superior pun.
FYI, I came across a line in an ee Cummings poem that could apply to our lameduck prez: "A clown's smirk in a baboon's skull." |
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Dec-09-20 R B Johnson vs C Brasket, 1960
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| Axel1940: I played Curt Brasket in a simultaneous exhibition at the U of Minn. in 1961. He was Minnesota State Champion for many years. |
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Oct-22-20 M Smolovic vs D Sekulic, 1992
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| Axel1940: vrati milo za draga (Serbo-Croat idiom for "to return tit for tat") |
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Oct-21-20 Botvinnik vs Reshevsky, 1938
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| Axel1940: I agree with RookFile: Sammy -- too much horsing around. |
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Oct-20-20 R Mesias Rojas vs L Rojas Keim, 2007
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| Axel1940: Seemed more like 100 Years War than War of the Roses. |
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Sep-17-20 H Morton vs W Adams, 1937
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| Axel1940: I have to comment on Player of the Day. Two chess masters named Tigran Petrosian and not related??
Weird. |
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Aug-05-20 Steinitz vs W Bolt, 1865
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| Axel1940: Too much horsing around. Nice finish tho. |
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Jul-14-20 H Weil vs Alekhine, 1942
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| Axel1940: They were playing chess in Lublin in 1942??? Was Alekhine a Nazi stooge? |
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