| Sep-21-12 | | dumbgai: Oh god, I hate that song. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Robed.Bishop: "Oh, I swear
At this moment
You mean everything to me."
A one-hit wonder. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | sevenseaman: 44. Rc5! What a wonderful exchange sac of a R for connecting the Ps unstoppably. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Llawdogg: Another trip back to the Eighties this week. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Abdel Irada: One note before I look at the game: Punctuation is important. Without a comma between "on" and "Eileen," the meaning of the title transmutes into something suitable for hardcore porn. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Ratt Boy: Thank you, <Abdel Irada>! |
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| Sep-21-12 | | hedgeh0g: <Abdel Irada> One might draw parallels to Frank Marshall being showered with gold coins after playing a brilliancy. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | The HeavenSmile: <Abdel Irada> but the title of the song doesn't have a comma. So assuming the pun maker is refering to the song, he/she is correct to omit it |
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| Sep-21-12 | | hellopolgar: <Without a comma between "on" and "Eileen"...hardcore porn.> this. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Once: <Abdel Irada> Thank you, thank you, thank you! Often thought it, never dared say it. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | goodevans: <Robed.Bishop: ... A one-hit wonder.> Dexy's had at least nine UK top 40 hits including two number 1s. Falls outside my definition of "a one-hit wonder". |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Once: Excuse me while I stick this Babel fish in my ear. I need to say the first bit in English and the second bit in internetese... English: <goodevans> My good man, I suspect the colony-borrowers are referring to the US charts where Dexys managed to chart only twice. This song (number 1) and a re-release of "Celtic Soul Brothers" which attained the giddy heights of number 86 in 1983. So I think it would be correct to say "one hit wonder ... in that part of the world where 75% of the population don't have a passport." Internetese: only kiddin', buddies. ;-) |
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| Sep-21-12 | | YoungEd: The quickest of looks suggests that Black's 31...g5 might have been a mistake that turned the tide. White gets to plant a ♘ on h5 and take advantage of Black's weakened ♔-side. Regardless, interesting game! |
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Sep-21-12
 | | HeMateMe: I remeber hearing that song when I wasin college. Dexy's Midnight Runners. Saw them on TV, once. Big band, looked like nine people on stage. I don't know how they paid everyone. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Riverbeast: Ms. Tranmer put on a clinic here
This was a flawlessly played Ruy Lopez...Very instructive game |
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| Sep-21-12 | | kevin86: White sac-ed the rook for two connectors. One ate the bishop...the second will queen.The rook could stop it...but oops,his own pawn blocks it. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Robed.Bishop: <goodevans: Dexy's had at least nine UK top 40 hits including two number 1s. Falls outside my definition of "a one-hit wonder".> I hope this clarifies things a bit:
biography[-]by Steve Huey
<<Dexys Midnight Runners are best known in America as one of new wave's ultimate one-hit wonders, thanks to their 1982 number one smash "Come on Eileen," a distinctive fusion of '80s pop, Celtic folk, and blue-eyed soul. In the U.K., however, they earned a fair amount of critical acclaim and made a greater impression on the public consciousness with their frequent changes in sound, wardrobe, and personnel.>> Had Kevin Rowland not been such a control freak, the band may have had further successes, but Come On Eileen would be the peak of their career. They did indeed have a previous No. 1 in the UK. As for the lack of a comma, the song itself is an upbeat plea to have Eileen remove her clothes. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Shamot: <Once> ha ha ha ha.... Very well put!! I always like the way you compare the people and cultures on both sides of the pond. |
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Sep-21-12
| | HeMateMe: They seemed like talented players, they could do nice stuff instrumentality, and not have to have four minute radio friendly songs. I kind of liked Horslips too, an irish band from the 80s. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Moszkowski012273: 17...dxe4 was a better option for black |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Moszkowski012273: And going over this with Fritz it's filled with reds and yellows on both sides. Far from a "flawlessly played Ruy Lopez" as quoted above. Quite the opposite. |
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Sep-21-12
 | | perfidious: < Moszkowski012273: And going over this with Fritz it's filled with reds and yellows on both sides. Far from a "flawlessly played Ruy Lopez" as quoted above. Quite the opposite.> Without your silicon assistant, would you have drawn the same sweeping conclusion-or could you? Pretty easy to make such utterances with your trusty friend near to hand, but I'd like to see you actually play such a game OTB. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | Moszkowski012273: Actually yes, my "trusty friend" stays quite far away while I look these over and I found a number of "better" moves over coffee this afternoon. But thanks for askin. |
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| Sep-21-12 | | goodevans: Allow me to also share with you Dexy's notorious <Top of the Pops> appearance singing their cover of Van Morrison's <Jackie Wilson Said>. The question is whether the set dresser deliberately gave them a backdrop of <Jocky> Wilson, the darts player, or whether he really was that stupid! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDl... |
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Kibitzing
sac: 44.Rc5