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May-13-17
 | | offramp: Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1892 (kibitz #3),
This is the 4...Qh4 variation of the Scotch, where White gives up his e-pawn very early. <Resignation Trap: After 16.Bxf5 g6, Anthony Santasiere wrote in "My Love Affair With Tchigorin": <<At last the Queen has a retreat - we cannot recommend Black's chosen defense to the Scotch Opening; would a Scotsman give away a pawn for nothing?>>> [Great comment - but wouldn't it have been funnier if directed at White, who is playing the Scotch?] |
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| May-22-17 | | Abdel Irada: ∞
<saffuna: <Obviously, you are obsessing about the "nonsense", because it exposes your OMV argument as a plausibility argument, and nothing more, certainly not a proof. "It is rational to believe" if "a statement is more plausible than its negation" is not "it is true".>Anybody who believes in the plausibility argument should happily play Russian roulette. After all it's five times more plausible there's not a bullet in the chamber than that there is.> ∞ |
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| May-27-17 | | shivasuri4: <ColeTrane: Take a look at your own lousy ideas first, because "Toad in the Rd" "Eat Crow" "Bonanza" and "Fine for Overdue Book" are not exactly great and hysterical poetic compositions... They stink! And "Alice in Blunderland"!?! Get over yourself! Your ideas are just as bad as these! Youre just bitter they don't get selected, so go cry about it alone and just shut up about the puns already and try to enjoy the games. Or open your own pun website, you know who you are.>
A H Trott vs H H Cole, 1950 |
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May-29-17
| | offramp: Poeple seem to be more sympathetic to Nimzo than to Bogo. Rookfile shows us some simple facts: <RookFile: I'm going to bring up an unpopular player, namely, Bogoljubov, to show how inappropriate it is to say Nimzo was the stongest never to be champ. Bogoljubov put 16 wins up on the board against Alekhine in his prime, had a match victory against Nimzo, and for a period of 5 years was winning a lot of top events, including the super strong Moscow 1925.
Other players were tougher than Bogo - for example, remember Chigorin, who lost to Steinitz in one of his matches by the narrowest of margins. Also, Reshevsky, who had a mini-match win over Botvinnik, Pillsbury, who was more than competitive against Lasker, and the other players mentioned above. Meanwhile, Nimzo doesn't even show up on the radar screen against such players, especially in match play. Nimzo was a genius at marketing books, and good for him, but in terms of chess strength was was about as a strong as Milan Vidmar.>
Richard Reti (kibitz #307) |
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May-29-17
| | offramp: User: KEG showing a lot of what makes this such a great site. A readable and knowledgeable post, disputing the posts of others in a sensible way, without ranting. Janowski vs Steinitz, 1899 (kibitz #8) Really worth a read! |
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May-29-17
 | | OhioChessFan: <harrylime> commenting on a series of pics of JFK on the 100th anniversary of his birth: <harrylime: I cried looking at those pics ...> <diceman: harry, you cry when the pretzels run out at the pub.> Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #203547) |
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| Jun-05-17 | | optimal play: <Big Pawn: I do think that when we see an example of someone refusing to believe the obvious, what we actually see is them believing the obvious (how can't you?) but refusing to *submit* to it.> |
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Jun-06-17
| | offramp: Carlsen vs W So, 2017 (kibitz #68) The context is not important, it's just a quick funny comment. The literary term is BATHOS and this is a brilliant example. <watwinc: And now, it’s all about space - the final frontier.> |
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Jun-07-17
 | | TheAlchemist: <keypusher, Magnus Carlsen (kibitz #82688)
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<epistle: My analysis is not based on their games.> I think it's based on wishful thinking. |
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Jun-11-17
| | offramp: Another good one from <ChessHigherCat: > <One does get the impression that book isn't so important when a 2800 player takes forever on move 7.> It was said during a live event, so I can't link to it at the moment. But it says something important about modern day chess. How important is the study of opening theory to a strong GM? |
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Jun-14-17
| | OhioChessFan: <nok: In other news, Ruy Lopez was found dead in his Berlin apartment.> Altibox Norway (2017) (kibitz #470) |
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Jun-14-17
| | OhioChessFan: Followup to the last:
<nok: In other news, Ruy Lopez was found dead in his Berlin apartment.> <tamar: He was seated next to his upright Giuoco Piano. > Altibox Norway (2017) (kibitz #479) |
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| Jun-25-17 | | john barleycorn: <Jun-25-17
Premium Chessgames Member Marmot PFL: Every person has the same brain and sometimes it just stops working. ...>that is why. though as uninviting as having the "same" steak. |
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Jun-27-17
| | offramp: At Hugh Alexander Kennedy. <Aug-22-14 Penguincw: R.I.P. Hugh Alexander Kennedy.> <Fusilli: As Larry David would say in Curb Your Enthusiasm... didn't the R.I.P. window for this man close a little while ago?> Kennedy died in 1878! |
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Aug-14-17
| | offramp: Not "funny", just hugely insightful:
Fischer - Spassky World Championship Match (1972) (kibitz #547) <AylerKupp:...Perhaps Fischer was selectively sensitive to noise.Was he? Well, I can personally vouch that Fischer imagined noise where there wasn't any, or at least he was not aware of the source of the noise, if any. As I've mentioned before, I worked during the Second Piatagorsky Cup tournament in 1966 and was one of several boys in charge of moving transparent plastic pieces on a projection machine to show the players' moves to the audience. And, as luck would have it, I was assigned to do this during one of Fischer's games. Needless to say, we were instructed to be completely quiet and still during the games. And I was perfectly quiet and still while Fischer and his opponent were thinking about their moves. Nevertheless, at one point when it was Fischer's move the turns to me, points his finger at me, and yells "You, be quiet!" At that point I snapped back at him telling him "I am quiet!". At which point Fischer shrugged it off and went back to considering his move without any further outbursts.> That is an excerpt; the whole post is good. |
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| Aug-14-17 | | Dr Winston OBoogie: <diceman: Did you know Hitler was loved by the world, until a bad Rolling Stone interview angered the people?>> No. I didn't realize, lol |
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| Aug-16-17 | | Big Pawn: < OneArmedScissor: <saffuna: Fox's Shepard Smith said they could not find a single Republican elected official willing to go on his show and defend Trump's actions of the past few days.> cucks gonna cuck> |
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Aug-17-17
| | TheAlchemist: Two consecutive posts ten years apart:
Seidman vs G Kramer, 1946 (kibitz #1) <Phony Benoni, Jan-28-07>: Unless you're Reti, it's probably best to keep your queen out of the corner. 24.Nf6+ would be a nice shot for an early-part-of-the-week puzzler. <Phony Benoni, Aug-17-17>: Perhaps a little harder than I thought a decade ago, since White has a number of tempting choices. Having completely forgotten my previous post, I was considering 24.Qxc5. |
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| Aug-28-17 | | Dr Winston OBoogie: Tpstar's forum is now "a crime scene". I have no words 😂 😂 <After consultation with the Michigan State Police, my chessforum is under self-imposed lockdown as a crime scene. Don't believe any false narrative where I was ever "punished" here.Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #211753)>
Greatest quote in Ceegee <history!!>😂 |
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| Aug-29-17 | | Dr Winston OBoogie: Not a fan of <OCF> bit this made me Lol :) <OhioChessFan: <thegoodanarchist> <Does it have a yarmulke on it?>
<td: I don't see a funniest kibitzer award in your future.>Meh, being funny has never been a requirement for that.>
😂
And that's why TD wins every year! #Cronyism |
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Sep-02-17
 | | perfidious: From the Edmund Beronio page:
<Nonnus: Witness the roll call at the School for Infantile Methuselahs....> |
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| Sep-05-17 | | Arconax: On the game page Svetushkin-Grunberg (a 10 move game): <S.Brew: Tummy trouble?> Ahahaha!! |
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Sep-24-17
| | offramp: I made a comment about the legendary genesis of the Isle of Man: Finn MacCool threw some earth, but it landed in the Irish Sea and became the Isle of Man. <Domdaniel> was very quick with
<The earth who fell to Man?> Isle of Man Open (2017) (kibitz #14) |
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Sep-25-17
| | offramp: Tarjan vs Kramnik, 2017 a great result for Tarjan. The kibitzing soon became flooded with very bad puns. <<GrandMaesterPycelle>: Suggesting jungle related puns for the game seems to be overstepping the authority of beloved superhero Captain Obvious.> |
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Sep-26-17
| | offramp: Sometimes, exotic foreign names can be very mundane when translated.... Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky (kibitz #22) <TheTamale: I believe an anglicized version of Dus Chotimirsky's name would be Theodore John Rankins.> |
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