Feb-25-23 B Hayden vs NN, 1952
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| Cibator: <Sally Simpson: This game is given by Bruce in his book 'Cabbage Heads and Kings' a good chatty read. He says his never had time to get his cigar smoking opponents name as the game was over so quick> Didn't he also say in his notes something to the effect that "White hasn't ... |
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Feb-23-23 Miles vs Nunn, 1969 
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| Cibator: <Brenin: Miles and Nunn finished in a four-way tie for joint 2nd in this championship, with 8/11, a point behind Clive Cubitt, whose subsequent chess career was rather less spectacular than theirs.> Both players were 14 at the time (born only two days apart, I've just ... |
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Feb-20-23 Miles vs Dake, 1973
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| Cibator: Breakin' down the walls of Art Dake.
(Pun submitted - look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bl... if it seems too obscure.) |
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Feb-14-23 Paul List
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| Cibator: Interesting to see that name Odess crop up. I wonder if List-Odess was any blood-relation (however tenuous) to Dr Matthew Odess, whose practice was in Notting Hill, London, and who saw rather an awful lot of a certain Mr Christie. (And whose locum once was Dr Stefan Fazekas .) |
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Feb-05-23 V Kovalev vs Carlsen, 2022
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| Cibator: In 1964 the UK's BBC aired a TV play called Justin Thyme, which was yet another spy-spoof. But there must have been many even earlier examples of fictional characters using that joke-name. Anyone know of any .... anyone ... ? |
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Feb-04-23 H Berliner vs H Bullwinkel, 1955
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| Cibator: Slightly reminiscent of Anderssen-Morphy (Game 4). By the time White gets his Q to h7, it's only a check instead of mate, and his game's a total ruin. |
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Feb-02-23 R Loman vs W Schelfhout, 1913
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| Cibator: What you might call panic buying* - Loman sure cleared that Schelfhout double-quick. (Yes, yes - I know the pun doesn't work nearly as well if you use correct Dutch pronunciation.) * Pun submitted |
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Jan-30-23 A P Smith vs A Chibnall, 2018
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| Cibator: I felt a bit dubious about 19. ... Bxf3. Sure, it breaks up the WPs, but leaving the BQ to deal with an opposing B-pair while lacking any minor-piece support doesn't seem a good idea. |
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Jan-28-23 Geller vs Velimirovic, 1971
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| Cibator: <OhioChessFan: >Just to clarify: I wasn't saying ALL named-based puns should be deprecated (I'm as "guilty" of them as anyone), only that there seem to have been an awful lot of them lately, and a more diverse approach would be welcome. |
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Jan-28-23 A Powers vs Dake, 1937
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| Cibator: Bent Larsen gave a simul at our club in north London in 1973, and let his 30-odd opponents have the choice of colour!! The number who did the "honourable" thing and took Black was surprisingly high. |
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