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Robert Bruce Fickling vs Richard Hobbs
"Nasty, brutish, and short." (game of the day Dec-08-2023)
Berkeley (1975), Berkeley, CA USA
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense. Traxler Counterattack Bishop sac line (C57)  ·  0-1

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Dec-08-23  Brenin: "... And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.
Dec-08-23
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  offramp: A quotation of Thos Hobbes from his book Leviathan. A description of humanity. I think there was another British philosopher but I forget his name. Most philosophers are French or Greek.
Dec-08-23  lentil: 9 Nd5+?? unleashed the kraken!
Dec-08-23
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  OhioChessFan: Really good pun.
Dec-08-23
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  Jimmy720: Very nice pun
Dec-08-23
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: True enough--if you play 4.Ng5 in the Two Knights and don't know the theory, your life will indeed turn nasty, brutish and short.
Dec-08-23
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  FSR: A fine demonstration by White of how <not> to play against the Traxler (no one seems to call it the Wilkes-Barre anymore). As <lentil> said, White was in the soup after the horrid 9.Nd5+??.
Dec-08-23
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  MissScarlett: <I think there was another British philosopher but I forget his name.>

It's immaterial but I'm guessing you mean Bishop Berkeley. He kicked the stone a long time ago, of course. Philosophy in Britain was outlawed by an act of Parliament in 1782.

Dec-08-23
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  HeMateMe: Is this a Nigel Short pun?

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