scutigera Member since Mar-22-09 · Last seen Apr-13-25 Total patzer who reads more than he plays.

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Dec-11-24 NN vs M Wahlund, 2007    scutigera: "A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror." -World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz I'd rather enjoy games like this than be world champ - and lucky me, I've gotten my wish.      Jul-17-24 A Hunt vs Y Hou, 2012    scutigera: A pun on one of the player's names, with no other connection to the game's content at all, is pretty lame, palindrome or not. Even "Hunt Becomes The Hunted" would be better.      Jun-30-24 Ljubojevic vs Portisch, 2012   scutigera: The final position is a pretty display of the "domination" theme in actual play.      Jun-02-24 Prochazka vs Kozacek, 1991    scutigera: Losing in eight moves is humiliating enough, but in a correspondence game? Maybe he thought "correspondence" included thumbing out your moves on a two-way pager on a subway during rush hour without sight of the board.      Apr-20-24 J Tarjan vs D J Strauss, 1978    scutigera: <playground player>: Doubtless it's occurred to people, but the lack of obvious follow-up deters many ("Me Tarjan, You Jay-Strauss"?), and I like to think that some won't do it because a pun that does nothing but make fun of one of the players' names is beneath them. In this      Apr-01-24 P H Coldwell vs Marshall, 1907    scutigera: "Caldwell" looks like a "close variant" of Coldwell, and "o" and "a" are easy letters to confuse in printed sources, not all of which are perfectly edited or typeset.      Mar-20-24 Bogoljubov vs Capablanca, 1928    scutigera: <keypusher>: Look again! The opening of Kasparov vs Adams, 1988 has been retconned into “Kasparov-Petrosian. Andersson Variation.” and plain ol’ “Andersson Variation” has gone the way of neuroweirditis.      Feb-22-24 E Gasanov vs V Shtyrenkov, 2001    scutigera: My choice was 48..Nxc3, which Stockfish likes just fine: 49 Rc2? Rb1# of course, but 49 Kxa1 is mate in 12 and 49 Rxe5 is mate in 11. The game move is simplest, though.      Oct-22-23 A Belezky vs G Phillips, 2005    scutigera: <HeMateMe: Who is Sasha?> Not exactly a short form, but Sasha is the traditional nickname for those two names in Russian and some related languages, much like "Dick" or "Dickie" for "Richard" in English, without the unwanted connotations.      Oct-01-23 K I Norman vs S Conquest, 1994   scutigera: In this case, Norman Conquered.

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