May-23-10 | | BradMajors: What a game. |
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May-23-10 | | whiteshark: Yes, indeed! |
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May-23-10 | | outplayer: This is an outstanding and brilliant game from Mr. Alekseev. |
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May-24-10 | | Don Cossacks: At first I though the game is on favor of Inarkiev but I'm amazed the way Alekseev won the game. |
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May-24-10 | | kellmano: Lucicrously complex. The early middle game tactics are incredible. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | al wazir: I think 60. Bc6 would have won. Depending on where the black queen moves, white wins material or catches the king in a mating net. At the end 88. a4 is equally winning. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | OhioChessFan: Unbelievable how many pieces were left hanging. Some I even understood why. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | HeMateMe: hmm...must be a pun based on a historical event. Can't be Stalingrad. Not Leningrad. I give up. |
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Sep-02-23 | | Cecco: I searched for "famous sieges". No results look similar to "Inarkiev". |
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Sep-02-23
 | | HeMateMe: This had BETTER not be a fake pun! I may have to call in Georgia and South Carolina to see if they have found 13,000 fake votes. I had a couple of calls form well balanced headsets. |
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Sep-02-23 | | goodevans: <Cecco: I searched for "famous sieges". No results look similar to "Inarkiev".> I hate to quibble when such a fascinating game has been presented to us but I didn't feel it particularly resembled a siege anyway. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | MissScarlett: First world problems. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | HeMateMe: It's not a pun, unless you can produce a siege... |
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Sep-02-23
 | | MissScarlett: It's a <GOTD>. Puns are gratuitous. |
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Sep-02-23
 | | beatgiant: I assumed it was the Siege of Heraklion (1648-1669) because Inarkiev kind of sounds like Heraklion and it's a long game like that was a long siege. |
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Sep-02-23 | | Messiah: <beatgiant: I assumed it was the Siege of Heraklion (1648-1669) because Inarkiev kind of sounds like Heraklion and it's a long game like that was a long siege.> It is a tasteless pun, referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battl... |
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Sep-02-23
 | | beatgiant: <Messiah> The user page for pun author User: Bdellovibrio shows he hasn't visited the site since 2017, which means the pun was created before the event you mentioned. |
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Sep-02-23 | | Messiah: <beatgiant: <Messiah> The user page for pun author User: Bdellovibrio shows he hasn't visited the site since 2017, which means the pun was created before the event you mentioned.> Oh, yes, I did not check it. In this case my guesswork is completely wrong. |
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Sep-02-23 | | goodevans: <beatgiant: I assumed it was the Siege of Heraklion (1648-1669) because Inarkiev kind of sounds like Heraklion...> Not to me, it doesn't. But...
The initial 'I' of 'Inarkiev' looks like an 'l' in some fonts and so all you have to do is swap out the 'v' for an 'H' and add an 'o' and behold you have an <anagram> of 'Heraklion'. So 'Siege of Heraklion' it is and this is a brilliant pun after all. |
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Sep-03-23
 | | beatgiant: <goodevans> The Greek for Heraklion is Ηράκλειο (Irakleio) which to me does sound close enough already to Inarkiev, but it seems you found a relatively short transformation even from Heraklion. Case closed. |
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