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| Mar-23-11 | | MaxxLange: <The arbiter? Alberic O'Kelly de Galway, of course!> Hah, I was just wondering if picking this as game of the day was a subtle Korchnoi homage, because of the famous story about Korchnoi asking the arbiter about castling when the Rook is attacked. It must be. |
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| Mar-23-11 | | Once: It's amazing what you learn on this site! Apparently, the phrase "It's a trap" is an internet "meme". No, I didn't know what that was, so I had to google it. Apparently (again) a meme is a unit of social information - ideas or beliefs which transfer from one person to another. It appears that there has been an internet craze to take the admiral ackbar "It's a trap" line and parody it over and over again. Heck, there's even a family guy episode dedicated to it. Then it appears to get a little ... ahem ... sordid. Apparently (again, again) the phrase also denotes someone who looks female but actually has - how shall we say it? - more equipment in the toolbox than you might be expecting. Confused? Then just stick "it's a trap" in your internet browser and see where the journey takes you. Just don't say I didn't warn you. |
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Mar-23-11
 | | Penguincw: Wow.Black grabbed a poison pawn. |
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| Mar-23-11 | | theodor: <<Once><Feuer>: It's amazing what you learn on this site! Apparently, the phrase "It's a trap" is an internet "meme". No, I didn't know what that was, so I had to google it.
Apparently (again) a meme is a unit of social information - ideas or beliefs which transfer from one person to another...> you guys could berely hyde your relationship with Feuerbach, couldnt you? |
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Mar-23-11
 | | scormus: 11. Fire in the Knight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-d6... |
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| Mar-23-11 | | DarthStapler: Alternate pun: Feuer Frei! |
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| Mar-23-11 | | MaxxLange: <Once> the word "meme" was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins, iirc, in a pop-science book from maybe 1985 or so. He speculated that one might look at human culture, or some parts of it, in a way that is analogous to genetics. So we might, according to Dawkins, analyze human ideas like "the individual has innate rights" or "history is all based on the class struggle" as if they were kind of like independent entities, that survive, or don't, over generations, by a sort of cultural reproduction. That is a weird and very interesting kind of philosophical quasi-Platonism, inspired by an analogy to science. However, the meaning that you cite, which is sort of an Internet-bound, pop-culture referencing, inside joke (like "LOLCats"), has become, I guess, the main meaning of "meme". So, the "meme" meme has changed quite a lot, since Dawkins' book! It was intended to be a Serious Idea for Serious Thinking about Man. Then came Fark, 4chan, etc. |
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| Mar-23-11 | | WhiteRook48: wow, this is a very nice "castle with check" trick |
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Mar-23-11
 | | Phony Benoni: And five years earlier, in NN vs G Abrahams, 1929: <11.?>
click for larger viewHey, it's NN playing White. That you can udnerstand. |
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Mar-24-11
| | Penguincw: < Phony Benoni: And five years earlier, in NN vs G Abrahams, 1929 : <11.?>
Hey, it's NN playing White. That you can udnerstand. > I'm guessing 11.♖xb7?? |
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| Mar-24-11 | | Once: <MaxxLange> I am in your debt for a fascinating explanation. I now need to google Fark and 4chan which mean absolutely nothing to me. And what that happens, I do feel rather old... |
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| Mar-25-11 | | DarthStapler: Don't google 4chan. If you don't know what it is already, you will commit suicide from knowing such depravity exists in the human race |
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Apr-01-11
 | | GrahamClayton: Here is another game featuring the same trap:
[Event "?"]
[Site "Kavalavci"]
[Date "1926.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mattison, Hermanis Karlovich"]
[Black "Millers, R"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 c5 2. g3 ♘c6 3. ♗g2 ♘f6 4. ♘c3 e6 5. f4 d5 6. e5 d4 7. exf6 dxc3 8. fxg7 cxd2+ 9. ♕xd2 ♗xg7 10. ♗xc6+ bxc6 11. ♕xd8+ ♔xd8 12. c3 ♖b8 13. ♗e3 
click for larger view13...♖xb2 14. O-O-O+ 1-0
Source: Bill Wall "500 Sicilian Miniatures", Chess Enterprises Inc, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, 1983 |
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| Aug-06-13 | | ajax333221: I thought I had discovered the trick
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/gam... I guess everything in chess has already been played, like, the ideas and tactics... |
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May-24-15
 | | FSR: H K Mattison vs R Millers, 1926 |
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Jun-20-15
| | FSR: See also http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (No. 5916). |
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Aug-12-20
| | FSR: According to ChessBase Online, the game finished with 9.h4 (instead of 9.Be3) h5 10.Be3 Rxb2 11.dxe5 dxe5 12.Qxd8+ Kxd8 13.O-O-O+ 1-0. |
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Feb-23-21
 | | fredthebear: This video works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXe...
It lasts just a couple minutes. |
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| Apr-10-21 | | Jean Defuse: ...
<FSR: ... the game finished with 9.h4 (instead of 9.Be3)> The primary source 'Le Vingtieme Siecle' 09.10.1934 also says <9.h4>! ... |
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| Apr-11-21 | | Chessist: So it says L'Echiquier 1934, p. 762. |
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Apr-11-21
| | FSR: Correction slip submitted. |
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Apr-11-21
| | FSR: "the phrase also denotes someone who looks female but actually has - how shall we say it? - more equipment in the toolbox than you might be expecting." I love the genteel way <Once> explains this. |
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Apr-11-21
 | | perfidious: Remarkable the stuff one can learn on a site dedicated to chess--I have picked up a thing or three across the years. |
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| Mar-25-24 | | quadrant: An article in the December 1967 Chess Life, p379 - Shortest Games of the Grandmasters - indicates that O'Kelly was White in this game. Alberic O'Kelly: 'It was the first time I played in the Belgian Championship. Because of this, I was very happy about my shortest win. O'Kelly-Feuer: (moves shown in algebraic instead of descriptive) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6 5.Bxc6+ bxc6 6.d4 f6 7.Be3 Rb8 8.Nc3 Rxb2 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Qxd8+ Kxd8 11.0-0-0+ Resigns. 'My shortest loss was against Szabo in Groningen 1946-only 12 moves.' An editorial note gave the game with Szabo, showing that it was actually 16 moves. |
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| Mar-25-24 | | Olavi: <quadrant> The game moves are also different there from how they are everywhere alse. (no Qd3 Ne7 h4 h5). And it was published many times all over the world in the Count's lifetime, he might have put a word in in some major magazine - but he didn't. Of course, seeing that the article is by Bjelica, all sorts of mistakes and errors are possible. |
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