| Oct-24-04 | | Knight13: "Bird is a Provisional Defender as in Advanced Attacker." -- Knight13 |
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| Jul-01-05 | | Knight13: I would rank this game as Bird's best game ever played using the Bird's Opening. |
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| Dec-14-05 | | notyetagm: 21 ♗e6! ♘g8 22 d5 ♘f6 23 ♗xd7 ♖xd7 24 ♘e6+ ♖xe6 25 dxe6 is a nice sequence by Bird, exploiting the weak e6-square to win the exchange with a knight fork. |
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| Apr-16-07 | | Paul123: How about Tartakower? He played the hell out of the Bird. Won most of his games too. |
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| May-21-08 | | YoungEd: I agree that this is a pretty game! Black was busted by move 32, though. Down an exchange and a pawn, with not even a hint of an attack! Bird does a good job of mopping up. |
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| Aug-21-08 | | TheaN: I like how <42.Qd5†!> lays traps on Black. <42....Ke8 43.Qg8† Qf8 44.Rd8†  > <42....Kf8 43.Rd8† Kg7 44.Qg8† Kh6 (Kf6 45.Rf8† Qxf8 46.Qxf8† ) 45.R1d6†! Nxd6 46.Rxd6† Qxd6 47.cxd6 > <42....Kg7 43.Rd7! Rxd7 44.Qxd7 Kf6 (Qxd7 45.Rxd7† Kf6 46.c6) 45.Qxe7† Kxe7 46.c6! > If 46....Nd6 47.c7 Nc8 (Kd7 48.Rxd6† ) 48.Rd8 . |
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| Jul-14-09 | | acolyte: Cracks me up that he didn't even touch his e-pawn. It's like rubbing it in. |
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Jan-02-23
 | | Check It Out: Early Bird Gets the Worm |
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May-05-24
 | | offramp: A song from a Peter Sellers film. |
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May-05-24
 | | MissScarlett: I would have gone with <Birdie Yum Yum>. |
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| May-05-24 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp: A song from a Peter Sellers film.> No wonder I didn't get it.
And Pink Panther movies aren't about the Pink Panther cartoons. |
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May-05-24
 | | HeMateMe: I loved the Peter Sellers PP movies. The Steve Martin remake just didn't work. |
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| May-05-24 | | goodevans: <offramp: A song from a Peter Sellers film> I don't remember the song but I do remember the 'Birdie Num Num' scene. Not Peter Sellers finest hour by a long way but still the most memorable moment from a misfiring Blake Edwards film. Of course the 'brownface' means it doesn't get much airtime these days, which is no great loss, but make up your own mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFK...
A mediocre pun for a rather one-sided game. |
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| May-05-24 | | jimx: The "song" from the Peter Sellers film that <offramp> was talking about is probably "Birdie Num Num" by the Aussie/Melbourne band Mr Floppy, released on their album "The Unbearable Lightness of Being a D!ckhead" in 1993 (but first performed live in 1991). Most songs on the album feature soundbytes sampled from various sources, mostly the stuff that was showing on TV in Australia in the early 1990's. Birdie Num Num's samples are mostly (perhaps exclusively) from the 1968 Peter Sellers movie "The Party", including things such as "birdie num num" and "how-dee pard-an-err". Mr Floppy - Birdie Num Num
https://youtu.be/bC7pueAFJlg?si=1uP... Maybe I'm showing my age and/or immaturity, but I bought the aforementioned album when it was released and instantly loved track on it, still do in fact. Perhaps because I was familiar with most of the sampled sound bytes in their songs from when I used to watch TV back then. (eg, "Denny, where are the Yellow Pages?!" "I've..... packed them." "There are plenty of nice Japanese. Don't let them fool you, Jana!"). But I also love their ridiculous cover version of Wuthering Heights, which doesn't use samples. Great band. wish I'd seen them live while they were still active. Now all I have to remind me of them are their various songs recorded on YouTube, and this Bird v Blackburne chess game. |
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May-05-24
| | offramp: <User: goodevans> on telly we'll see a lot of English anglo-saxon-types portraying Indian Indians. Pete Sellers had no trace of Indian in him, but he was a talented mimic, so he got away with it. Pete Sellers much have conversed a lot with Spike Milligan. <Spike Milligan> was born and reared in India. Spike was an Irish-Indian: born in a paddy field. Michael Bates was born in India and he played a char-wallah in <It Ain't Half Mum>. I think that is allowed. Sir Ben Kingsley was born in bloody Yorkshire but his birth name is <Krishna Pandit Bhanji>; did you know that? He played Ghandi. Is that brownface? So there are a load of Indian Britannic actors, as well as Indian Indian actors, and some are born in Britain. I live in south London and I can do a pretty good Indian voice but I don't brown-up to get my watch battery changed. I had never heard the album mentioned by User: jimx. I intend to listen to the whole album as it sounds as a clever and funny concept album. |
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| May-05-24 | | Saniyat24: One hen has more eggs...! |
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